英美詩歌名篇選讀（簡體書）

This bilingual course， consisting of 16 lectures， is designed to im-prove students' knowledge of English and American poetry.　In the firstchapter， I give a brief account of poetry ABC， including rules and formsof poetic composition. About 100 famous poems by 51 poets are selected.By reading these poems， students can enjoy the beauty of poetry in origi-nal. My brief introduction to the authors makes up a brief history of Eng-lish and American poetry. The selected poems have been translated intoChinese by myself： by reading the Chinese versions， students can have abetter understanding of English and American poetry and learn a bitabout translation skill.
I have six years' experience of teaching the bilingual course， first inZhejiang University， then in Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences， butI had no intention of publishing the lecture notes at all until my col-leagues encouraged me to print them. Without their encouragement andthe sponsorship from our college， the publication will remain a question，since poetry as a branch of learning is so declining in a highly-commercialized society.　I sincerely hope this textbook will stimulatestudents' interest for reading and enjoying English poetry，　so as toenhance their cultural quality.

Lecture 1 Poetry ABC
詩歌ABC
Rules and Forms of Poetic Composition
Part One English Poetry

Lecture 2 Old English Poetry
古英語詩歌
Charm
Charm for Catching a Swarm of Bees
Riddle
Swan
Beowulf
Religious Poetry
The Grave

Lecture 3 Middle English Poetry
中古英語詩歌
Romance
Sir Gawain and Green Knight（extract）
Beast Verse Tale
The Fox and the Wolf in the Well（extract）
Folk Song
The Cuckoo Song
Ballad
The Unquiet Grave

Lecture 4　Chaucer．a Poet 0f Real Life and Others
現實生活的詩人喬叟和其他
Geoffrey Chaucer（1343m1400）
The Canterbury Tales（extract）
Henry Howard Surrey（1517-1547）
The Soote Season
Christopher Marlowe（1564-1593）
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Walter Raleigh（1554？-1618）
The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd
Edmund Spencer（1 552-1 599），a poet of romance
One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand

Lecture 5　William Shakespeare，a Poet of Humanism
人文主義詩人莎士比亞
Spring（from Love's Labor Lost）
Hark!Hark!The Lark（from Cymbeline）
Blow，Blow，Thou Winter Wind（from As You Like It）
Sonnet 18
T0 Be，or Not to Be（from Hamlet）

Lecture 6　Euphuism，Metaphysical Poets，Song·writers and Others
綺麗派、玄學派、歌曲詩人與其他
John Lyly（1554-1606）
Trico'S Song
Samuel Daniel（1562-1619）
Love Is a Sickness
John Donne（1573-1631）
The Sun Rising
……
Part Two Aerican Poetry

In the history of English literature，Chaucer was the first man of letters to havemade great achievement in the compositionof poetry， thus winning the title "father ofEnglish poetry " after death. Chaucer'sliterary career was divided into threeperiods： the French， the halian and theEnglish. His masterpiece is The Canterbu-ry Tales， in which he gives us a vivid pic-ture of contemporary English life， thereupon critics call him "a poet ofreal life". In The Talcs， the storytellers come from all walks of life， andalmost all medieval poetic forms are adopted by the poet to tell his tales.We can safely say， the book is a neat epitome of the medieval Englishlife and literature as well.
Read the following lines from The Canterbury Tales：
When in April the sweet showers fallAnd pierce the drought of March to the root， and allThe veins are bathed in liquor of such power?As brings about the engendering of the flower;When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath?Exhales an air in every grove and heath?Upon the tender shoots， and the young sunHis half-course in the sign of the Ram has run，?And the small fowl are making melody?That sleep away the night with open eye-（ So nature pricks them and their heart engages）Then people long to go on pilgrimages，And palmers long to seek the strange strands?Of far-off saints， hallowed in sundry lands，?And specially， from every shire's endOf England， down to Canterbury they wend?To seek the holy blissful martyr， quick
當四月的甘霖涔涔
滲透三月干枯的須根，
莖絲葉絡受瓊漿沐濯，
枝頭孕育出花蕾朵朵；
當仄費洛斯的和風
吹過田野與樹叢，
掠過嫩芽，青春的金輪
轉過半邊白羊宮，
小鳥兒唱起曲調，
睜著雙眼度過良宵--
（自然如此撥動它們的心弦）
這時，人們渴望外出朝覲，
行腳僧想要跋涉異鄉，
朝拜聞名四方的聖邦，
從英格蘭各州各郡，
更有眾多上坎特伯雷的人，
他們要去朝拜殉難聖徒，
那位樂于治病救人的恩主。
【點評】
這是《坎特伯雷故事》開宗明義的十八行詩，交待了時間、地點
和人物。這個著名的開場白居然只有一個句子：前十一行是由兩個
when構成的時間狀語，後七行才是主語。有如此美妙的起筆，後面
的珠璣妙文是可以期待了。