高等學校英語專業繫列教材是一套為英語專業高年級本科生和研究生編寫的教材，包括英語語言技能、英語專業知識和相關專業的知識三個方面。本繫列教材的開放式，涵蓋面廣，設計科學，注重時代性、知識性與實用性，有助於學習者在掌握英語技能的基礎上進一步擴展知識領域，培養應用能力，提高綜合素質。

高等學校英語專業繫列教材是一套為英語專業高年級本科生和研究生編寫的教材，包括英語語言技能、英語專業知識和相關專業的知識三個方面。本繫列教材的開放式，涵蓋面廣，設計科學，注重時代性、知識性與實用性，有助於學習者在掌握英語技能的基礎上進一步擴展知識領域，培養應用能力，提高綜合素質。
本書分“英國詩歌”和“美國詩歌”兩部分，介紹從文藝復興到21世紀初的英美詩人和詩歌作品，共11章，每章涵蓋一個歷史時期的詩人和詩歌作品，全面展示英美詩壇的輝煌成就，是英語專業高年級詩歌選讀教程的優選教材。
內容翔實：“作者介紹”、“作品注釋”、“思考題”、“參考譯文”及“作品分析”一應俱全。
實用性強：“詩歌基礎知識”繫統介紹詩歌的種類、音韻、節奏、修辭手法、意像和像征、用詞和用典等鋻賞常識。
深度挖掘：在注重詩歌可讀性的同時，也注重其對“問題”的探討，頗具現實意義。

Part 1 British Poetry
Chapter 1 Renaissance and 16th-Century Poetry
Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)
Elizabethan Love Poets (Christopher Marlowe & Sir Walter Ralegh)
William Shakespeare (1564--- 1616)
Thomas Campion (1567-- 1690)
Thomas Nashe (1567--1601)
Elements of Poetry: Types of Poetry (1)
Chapter 2 The Civil War and Early 17th-Century Poetry
John Donne (1572--1631)
Ben Jonson (1572--1637)
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)
George Herbert (1593--1633)
John Milton (1608-- 1674)
Andrew Marvell (1621-- 1678)
Elements of Poetry: Types of Poetry (2)
Chapter 3 Neocliassicism and 18th-Century Poetry
John Dryden (1631--1700)
J0nathon Swift (1667--1745)
Alexander Pope (1688-- 1744)
Thomas Gray (1716--1771)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)
Elements of Poetry: Alfiterafio，Assonance and consonance
Chapter 4 Romanticism and Early 19th-Century Poetry
William Blake (1757--1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-- 1850)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)
John Keats (1795--1821)
Elements of Poetry: Rhyme
Chapter 5 Social Progress and Late 19th-Century Poetry
Alfred Tennyson (1809--1892)
Robert Browning (1812-- 1889)
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)
Victorian Women Poets (Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Christina Rossetti & Emily Bronte )
Rudyard Kipling (1865-- 1936)
Elements of Poetry: Rhythm and Meter (1)
Chapter 6 Modernism and Early 20th-Century Poetry
Thomas Hardy (1840-- 1928)
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)
The First World War Poets (Rupert Brooke, Siegfreid Sassoon,
Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg)
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)
W H. Auden (1907--1973)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
Elements of Poetry: Rhythm and Meter (2)
Chapter 7 World War II and Late 20th-Century Poetry
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)
Seamus Heaney (1939-
Douglas Dunn (1942-- )
Liz Lochhead (1947-- )
PaulMuldoon (1951-- )
Carol Ann Duffy (1955-
Elements of Poetry: Image and Symbol
Part 2 American Poetry
Chapter 8The Colonial Period and Early American Poetry
Chapter 9Transcendentalism and 19th-Century American Poetry
Chapter 10Modernism and American Poetry between the World Wars
Chapter 11Post-Modernism and American Poetry After World War Ⅱ