本课程为英语专业高级阶段专业必修课，是一门2学分，32学时的专业技能课。本课程是一门以阅读与欣赏英语诗歌为主要内容的英诗入门课程。课程通过向学生介绍英美诗歌世界中的代表性诗人的代表性作品，帮助学生培养基本的英诗鉴赏能力，激发他们学习与创作英诗的兴趣。 课程的主要目的在于帮助英语专业大三学生通过学习多题材、多风格的英美诗歌，向学生展示多彩的英语诗歌世界，了解其丰富性与多样性，对英诗的特点有一个总体把握与领会。诗歌原本就不是用来教授的，而是用来欣赏的。所以，本课程将最大程度地调动同学们的积极性和互动性。在课堂上，老师引领大家一起欣赏英诗的独特魅力，也鼓励同学们从自己的角度诠释诗歌、创作诗歌。

The course of Appreciation of English and American Poetry has 2 Credit and 32 Class Hours.It’s a general introduction to English and American poetry. The selected reading texts have a wide range of poets from the Romantic period to the 21st century. 

We will study Elizabeth Barret Browing’s How Do I Love Thee.      

Robert Browning’s Home Thoughts from Abroad 

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Break, Break, Break  

Christina Georgia Rossetti’s The First Day

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Silent Noon

William Butler Yeats’s When You Are Old

Ted Hughes’ Hawk Roosting

Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro 

Roert Burns’ A Red, Red Rose

John Keats’ Bright Star, etc.

Critical and objective views towards the main questions are encouraged and valued in the analysis of those poets and their works. As a prerequisite course for the English and American literature courses in the following semesters, the students are given a broad view of the the western culture and literature. The teaching goal is to help students to appreciate and analyze English and American poetry and master basic appreciation skills through extensive reading of poems.