Part One Essay 1
µ¼¶Á 1
I. Introduction 3
II. Selected Readings 6
Unit 1 Classic Essay 6
Of Studies 9
Of Beauty 11
Of Wisdom for a Man's Self 12
Unit 2 Periodical Essay 23
Sir Roger at Church 26
Unit 3 Philosophical Essay (¢ñ) 34
Nature (Excerpts) 38
Unit 4 Philosophical Essay (¢ò) 51
Civil Disobedience (Excerpts) 53
Walden, or Life in the Woods (Excerpts) 58
Unit 5 Biographical Essay 74
The Life of Milton (Excerpts) 78
Milton (Excerpts) 84
Unit 6 Literary Criticism and Comment (¢ñ) 101
An Essay on Criticism (Excerpts) 105
Unit 7 Literary Criticism and Comment (¢ò) 115
The Art of Fiction (Excerpts) 119
Part Two Poetry 133
µ¼¶Á 133
I. Introduction 135
1. Attempts to Define Poetry 135
2. The Externals of Poetry: Versification and
Prosification 137
3. The Internals of Poetry: Imagery, Subject Matters
and Themes 153
4. The Genres of Poetry 161
5. Approaches Towards Poetry Text Analyses 164
II. Selected Readings 167
Unit 1 Epic 167
Paradise Lost (Excerpts) 171
Unit 2 Ballad 182
To the Cuckoo 184
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 186
I Travelled among Unknown Men 187
Unit 3 Sonnet 196
Ozymandias 200
England in 1819 201
Unit 4 Elegy 208
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(Excerpts) 212
Elegy on Thyrza 215
Elegy 218
Unit 5 Ode 227
Ode on a Grecian Urn 230
To Autumn 232
Ode to a Nightingale 234
Unit 6 Dramatic Monologue 248
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 251
Unit 7 Hymanal Stanza 264
Because I Could Not Stop for Death 270
The Soul Selects Her Own Society 271
Unit 8 Lyrics (¢ñ) 279
Kubla Khan 282
Unit 9 Lyrics (¢ò) 293
Sailing to Byzantium 299
Leda and the Swan 300
Unit 10 Lyrics (¢ó): Pastoral 311
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 315
Neither out Far nor in Deep 316
Unit 11 Free Verse (¢ñ) 325
Song of Myself 328
I Sit and Look Out 332
Unit 12 Free Verse (¢ò) 339
In a Station of the Metro 343
Dancing 344
The Red Wheelbarrow 345
[L(a] 345
Sunset 346
ºó¼Ç 357
