1.1.1 Meeting at Night 1.1.2 The Pasture 1.2 Poetry Delights and Instructs 1.3 Poetry Communicates Experience 1.4 Poetry Says Much in Little 1.5 A Course Description With a Syllabus 1.6 Why Read All These Masterpieces？ 2.1 William Shakespeare：“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day” 2.2 Reading Aloud of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 2.3 Sonnet 18: An Explanation 2.4 Devices and Techniques 2.5 Immortality Through Literature 2.6 Structure of English Sonnet 2.7 Why Should We Read Shakespeare? 3.1 John Milton: “Doth God Exact Day-labor, Light Denied?” 3.2 Reading Aloud of Milton’s Poems 3.3 John Milton's Life and Works 3.4 Miltonic Sonnet 3.5 Milton’s Sonnet 19: “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” 3.6 Commentary on Milton's Sonnet 19 3.7 Invocation of Paradise Lost 4.1 A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 4.2 Poetry Reading Aloud 4.3 Life of John Donne 4.4 Metaphysical Poetry 4.5 A Close Reading of Donne's “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” 4.6 The Themes of Death, Love, Faith, and Science 5.1 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 5.2 Reading Aloud of Wordsworth’s Poems 5.3 Wordsworth：Life and Works 5.4 “Preface ” (1800 to Lyrical Ballads 5.5 Wordsworth's Definition of Poetry 5.6 Characteristics of Romanticism 5.7“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”: An Explanation 6.1 John Keats: “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold” 6.2 Poetry Reading Aloud 6.3 Life of John Keats 6.4 “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”: An Explanation 6.5“Negative Capability” 6.6“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” 7.1 Walt Whitman: “I Celebrate Myself” 7.2 Poetry Reading Aloud 7.3“I am Large, I Contain Multitudes” 7.4“Walt Whitman, An American” 7.5“One's Self I Sing” 7.6“I Celebrate Myself” 8.1 Emily Dickinson: “I'm Nobody, Who are You?” 8.2 Poetry Reading Aloud 8.3“The Mother of Modern American Poetry” 8.4 Life of Emily Dickinson 8.5 A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's Poems 8.6“The Soul Selects Her Own Society” 8.7“This Is My Letter to the World” 8.8“I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died” 8.9 “Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant —” 9.1 Robert Frost: “A Road Less Traveled By” 9.2 Poetry Reading Aloud 9.3 Life of Robert Frost 9.4“The Sound of Sense” 9.5“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” 9.6“The Road Not Taken” 9.7“Mowing” 9.8“Mending Wall”