H.G.Widdowson著的《实用文体学》是一部讨论诗歌在文体学中的地位、诗歌的意义和价值、以及如何进行诗歌教学的学术专著。作者H·G·威多森为伦敦大学教育学院对外英语教授，著名应用语言学家，从事应用语言学研究近40年，成果丰硕，对该学科的发展有深远的影响。

在书中，作者阐述了他对于诗歌作为语言创作形式的本质的理解，指出了这种理解对于教育所具有的意义，并具体说明了在实践中应采用何种教学方法才能真正达到诗歌教学的目的。

《实用文体学》由H.G.Widdowson著。

This book takes a particular perspective on the nature of poetry and follows this through to proposals for teaching.It focuses attention on how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions for individual interpretation and the representation of reality in ways other than those which are established by normal social convention.Ihis view ofpoetry leads to a recognition Ofits essential role in education，and provides a set of prmciples for an approach to teaching it which integrates the study of language and literature.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE The significance of poetry

 1 To begin with：common features and uncouth rhymes

 2 Significance beyond plain speaking

 3 Procedures for interpretation：reference and representation

 4 Dissociation from context：the poem on the page

 5 Verbal patterning and the grammar of representation

 6 Time and place in a different dimension

 7 Other patterns，alternative realities

 8 Parallel lines and parallel texts

 9 Intertextual associations

 10 Aesthetic effects and relative values

 11 So the meaning escapes

 12 In summary

PART TWO The teaching of poetry

 1 The point of poetry

 2 Educational relevance；recreation and language awareness

 3 Pedagogic approaches；against exegesis

 4 Composing poetic text：line assembly

 5 Completing poetic text：verse blanks

 6 Intertextual comparison and the use of variants

 7 Comparing poems with prose description

 8 Deriving poems from prose description

 9 Deriving and comparing poetic variants

 10 Progressive derivation：composing interim versions

 11 Using prose paraphrases

 12 Comparing derived and authorized versions

 13 Comparing different modes of poetic writing

 14 In conclusion

Notes

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Index of poets