《英美詩歌鑒賞》分為英國詩歌和美國詩歌兩個部分,分別選編了英美兩國文學(xué)各個歷史時期具有代表性的重要詩人及其詩歌作品,按詩人出現(xiàn)的先后順序進(jìn)行排列。為了加強(qiáng)本教材的可操作性,編者對每位詩人的生平、主要作品、創(chuàng)作思想和藝術(shù)特色作了簡明的介紹,有助于讀者對詩人的了解。對入選的每一首詩,編者也作了簡單的介紹,每首詩歌后面都有旨在引導(dǎo)讀者理解和鑒賞的思考題,有助于教師在課堂上啟發(fā)和指導(dǎo)學(xué)生對作品進(jìn)行分析和討論,有助于提高學(xué)生對英語詩歌的理解、分析和欣賞能力。
我們所處的時代是一個多元共生的時代。國際政治的多極化走向、經(jīng)濟(jì)的全球化趨勢、社會的信息化局面以及文化的多元化態(tài)勢正快速改變著我們的生活。科學(xué)技術(shù)的高速發(fā)展以及新興學(xué)科的不斷涌現(xiàn)加劇了世界各國文化的交流、碰撞和合作。如何培養(yǎng)適應(yīng)新捍代發(fā)展和需要的人才,這是我們這一代教育工作者面臨的新的課題和挑戰(zhàn)。 高等學(xué)校外語專業(yè)教學(xué)指導(dǎo)委員會英語組于2000年3月修訂的《高等學(xué)校英語專業(yè)英語教學(xué)大綱》明確規(guī)定了高等學(xué)校英語專業(yè)的培養(yǎng)目標(biāo):“高等學(xué)校英語專業(yè)培養(yǎng)具有扎實(shí)的英語語言基礎(chǔ)和廣博的文化知識并能熟練地運(yùn)用英語在外事、教育、經(jīng)貿(mào)、文化、科技、軍事等部門從事翻譯、教學(xué)、管理、研究等工作的復(fù)合型英語人才!边@樣的描述為我們編寫英語專業(yè)教材和組織英語專業(yè)教學(xué)提供了重要依據(jù)。我校在長期的外語教學(xué)和研究實(shí)踐中踐行“明德尚行,學(xué)貫中西”的校訓(xùn),著力推進(jìn)外語與專業(yè)的融合,致力于培養(yǎng)一專多能、“雙高”(思想素質(zhì)高、專業(yè)水平高)、“兩強(qiáng)”(外語實(shí)踐能力強(qiáng)、信息技術(shù)運(yùn)用能力強(qiáng))、具有國際視野和刨新意識的國際通用型人才。這要求全面提高學(xué)生的綜合素質(zhì),包括拓寬人文學(xué)科知識,加強(qiáng)人文素質(zhì),培養(yǎng)創(chuàng)新精神,提高獨(dú)立分析問題和解決問題的能力。
正是在這樣的環(huán)境和背景下,我院精心策劃并組織骨干教師編寫了這套《新視角英語文學(xué)與文化系列教材》。
British Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)
The Canterbury Tales(Excerpts)
The Popular Ballads
Lord Randall
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)
Sonnet 54
Sonnet 70
Sonnet 75
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 116
John Donne(1572-1631 )
Song [“Go,and Catch a Falling Star”]
Holy Sonnet 10(“Death,Be Not Proud”)
Holy Sonnet 14(“Batter My Heart”)
John Milton(1608-1674)
On His Blindness
Paradise Lost(Excerpts)
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
An Essay on Criticism(Excerpts)
William Blake(1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper
London
The Sick Rose
Robert Burns(1759-1796)
A Red,Red Rose
Scots,Wha Hae
For A'That and A' That
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3,1802
The Solitary Reaper
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
Kubla Khan
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
Song for the Luddites
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To-[Music,When Soft Voices Die]
John Keats(1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
Robert Browning(1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Leda and the Swan
T. S. Eliot(1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Dylan Thomas(1914-1953)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Philip Larkin(1922-1985)
Church Going
Talking in Bed
High Windows
Ted Hughes(1930-1998)
Wind
Theology
River
American Poetry
References
That led th' embattled Seraphim to war
Under thy conduct, and, in dreadful deeds
Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King,
And put to proof his high supremacy,
Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate,
Too well I see and rue the dire event
That, with sad overthrow and foul defeat,
Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host
In horrible destruction laid thus low,
As far as Gods and heavenly Essences
Can perish: for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible, and vigour soon returns,
Though all our glory extimct, and happy state
Here swallowed up in endless misery.
But what if he our Conqueror (whom I now
Of force believe almighty, since no less
Than such could have o'erpowered such force as ours)
Have left us this our spirit and strength entire,
Strongly to suffer and support our pains,
That we may so suffice his vengeful ire,
Or do him mightier service as his thralls
By right of war, whate'er his business be,
Here in the heart of Hell to work in fire,
Or do his errands in the gloomy Deep?
What can it the avail though yet we feel
Strength undiminished, or eternal being
To undergo eternal punishment?"
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