詩歌入門》共分6個章節，分別論述了英語詩歌的要素、視覺形態、聲音效果、音韻、比較和聯想以及用詞，深入淺出地對英語詩歌進行了、系統的介紹。本書語言簡潔流暢，對英語文學專業的學生以及英語詩歌愛好者有很好的指導作用。
"外教社原版文學入門叢書"以介紹文學理論和小說類型及相應的社會文化背景為主，勾勒出英美文學發展的概貌。本叢書文字簡練、語言生動，對我國的外國文學及理論研究者、在校學生以及廣大文學愛好者都有很高的參考價值。本書為《詩歌入門》分卷。
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The key words of poetry
1.1 What is poetry.
1.2 The key words of English poetic history
2 The shape of poetry
2.1 The aesthetics of print
2.2 Pictograms and concrete poems
2.3 Visible but unreadable
2.4 Layout and punctuation
2.5 The poetic stanza and stanzaic form
3 The sound of poetry
3.1 Poetic sound effects: an overview
3.2 Onomatopoeia
3.3 Sound,patterning
3.4 Rhyme
3.5 The 'orthodox' rhyme
3.6 Some 'unorthodox' rhymes
3.7 Some indeterminacies of rhyme
3.8 Rhyme and meaning
4 Metre and rhythm
4.1 Complexities in the study of metre
4.2 The key metrical units
4.3 Metrical regularity and variance
4.4 'Missing' and 'extra' syllables
4.5 Feet
4.6 Iambic metre
4.7 Trochaic metre
4.8 Dactylic metre
4.9 Anapaestic metre
4.10 Occasional feet
4.11 Metrical verse lines
4.12 Free verse
5 Comparisonsandassociations
5.1 Literal v. figurative
5.2 Metaphor and simile
5.3 Metonymy and synecdoche
5.4 Tenor, vehicle and ground
5.5 Conceits and extended similes
5.6 Dead and dying metaphors
5.7 Riddle poems
6 The words of poetry
6.1 Linguistic diversity
6.2 Poetic diction
6.3 Poetry of the everyday language
6.4 Creating your own language
6.5 Diction and argots
6.6 Poems about language
6.7 The Queen's (and other people's) English
A glossary of poetical terms Index
3 The sound of poetry
3.8 Rhyme and meaming
We hope this chapter will have introduced you to some of the complexitiesof rhyme in poetry.In particular,it should have brought home that rhyme isnot a single phenomenon but an umbrella term for several sorts of soundeffect；moreover,the very detection of a rhyme，or of a larger scheme ofrhymes into which it fits，can depend on an impression or an interpretation.We want to finish，however,by moving away from the mere cataloguing ofdifferent sorts of rhyme and discuss instead how rhyme can aggregate orexpress meaning in a piece of verse.Does rhyme have the flexibilit likesome other sound effects we discussed earlier,to mimic or reinforce thecontent of a piece of writing.To consider this important issue，we proposetaking a section from Richard II Act IV Scene i where Richard is on theverge of resigning his crown to the usurper,Henry Bolingbroke：
RICH. To do what service am I sent for hither：
YORK. To do that office of thine own good will
Which tired majesty did make thee offer：
The resignation of thy state and crown
To Henry Bolingbroke.
RICH. C：ive me the crown.Here，cousin，seize the crown.
Here，cousin，
On this side my hand，and on that side thine.
Now is this golden crown like a deep well
That owes two buckets，filling one another,
The emptier ever dancing in the air.
The other down.unseen，and fun of water.
That bucket down and full of tears am I，
Drinking my griefs，whilst you mount up on high.
BOL. I thought you had been willing to resign.RICH. My crown I am，but still my griefs are mine.
You may my glories and my state depose，
But not my griefs；still am I king of those.BOL.Part of your cares you give me with your crown.RICH. Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
My care is lOSS of care.by old care done.
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經典的原版書，值得花些時間研讀。
很好的書，原版引進的，值得一看。
這個商品不錯~
這個商品不錯~
入門教材，非常好
在當當買書很值的
可以
GOOD
書非常好，終于出版的，都買了，希望這種可讀性強的理論讀物越來越多。
很值得購買，專門研究詩歌的。
東西還不錯，買了一套叢書，還沒有看，字跡相對小些，逐步學著適應小字體的英文書吧，希望自己能夠好好學習，天天向上。當當服務還不錯。給個好評。
排版好
挺好的書 老師推薦的 書本質量滿意
物流快，很滿意
好書！
買來自己看，沒來得及仔細研究！
專業書。好評。
內容優秀，價格便宜，適合入門
非常好的一本書，作者寫得深入人心。當當正版書
小小薄薄的一本，沒有查過作者的背景，只是看到外教社就入手了，希望不會失望。書本身質量很好，雖然也有些年份了，但拆開看還是很新，文字也清晰，后面的索引也挺方便的。
很好 好 ok
內容很詳實
比較簡明地講清楚了詩歌的格律。一本很好的入門書
A very concise and edifying introduction to English poetry. Re***mendable.
這是一本相當學術和專業英文原著。適合對英語詩歌感興趣的讀者。因為是英文書，也適合想通過閱讀提高英語水平的學生。
書很好，物流不行，我都收到書了，物流信息還是正在準備發往，這讓人等的很心急的
