內容簡介
本書力求將學術性、知識性和觀賞性融為一體,在點評詩作語言、內容、技巧的同時,強調人文、社會、哲學、宗教等學科知識的接受,不僅是一個簡捷便利的讀本,同時也是美國詩歌研究者有價值的參考資料。
本書面向英語本科三、四年級的學生,也適用於同等英語水平的廣大讀者,既可用作教材、教輔,也是閒暇閱讀的好教材。通過該書的學習或閱讀,讀者可以“嘗一臠而知全味”,也可以此書為“敲門磚”,登堂入室,在英語詩歌的殿堂里尋寶。
這是一個在有限的篇幅內力求全面的選本。起自安妮·布雷特里特,止於西爾維亞·普拉斯,共選詩人23位,詩作54首,基本囊括美國詩壇上的主要詩人和他(她)們的代表詩作。
本書每章均含這些部分:開篇設有詳實的英文版詩人簡介,以便讀者對詩人的生活背景、創作風格等有一具大概的印象,同時又能激發其閱讀詩歌的興趣。本書以所選詩歌,以短篇為主,儘可能反映出詩人創作的不同風格。詩歌中的生僻詞語、短語、難句,重要的人名、地名等專有名詞,相關的文化、背景知識等採用中英文雙語注釋,即便於閱讀理解,夯實基礎英語知識,又節省讀者時間。
目錄
Anne Bradstreet
Some Verses on the Burning of Our House
To My Dear and Loving Husband
The Flesh and the Spirit
Philip Frenean
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
William Cullen Bryant
The Yellow Violet
To a Waterfowl
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Excelsior
My Lost Youth
Edgar Allan Poe
Israfel
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Walt Whitman
O Captain!My Captain!
Come up from the Field Father
Spirit That Form’d This Scene
Emily Dickinson
Success
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I’m Nobody!Who Are You?
Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Mr.Flood’s Party
Amy Lowell
Patterns
Robert Frost
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
The Harbor
Wallace Stevens
The Anecdotes of the Jar
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Emperor of Ice--Cream
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
Spring and A1l
Ezra Pound
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
E.E.Cummings
In Just
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Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
Allen Tate
Ode to the Confederate Dead
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Ballad of the Landlord
Mother to Son
Robert Lowell
For the Union Dead
Mr.Edwards and the Spider
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
James Wright
Saint Judas
A Blessing
In Terror of Hospital Bills
Alllle Sexton
You,Doctor Martin
Sylvia’s Death
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
Daddy