Book excerpt: ENGLISH POETRY A BOOK CONTENTS: 1. FORMS OF POETRY 2. STANZA FORMS 3. POETIC DEVICE 4. LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS (SONNET NO. 116) (By William Shakespeare) 5. ON HIS BLINDNESS (By John Milton) 6. PRESENCE IN ABSENCE (By John Donne) 7. ESSAY ON MAN (By Alexander Pope) 8. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD (By Thomas Gray) 9. THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US (By William Wordsworth) 10. ODE ON A GRECIAN URN (By John Keats) 11. ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE (By John Keats) 12. BREAK BREAK BREAK (By Alfred Lord Tennyson) (ii) 13. HOW DO I LOVE THEE (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 14. DOVER BEACH (By Matthew Arnold) 15. MY LAST DUCHESS (By Robert Browning) 16. THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK (By T. S. Eliot) 17. THE LAKE ISLE OF INDISCREET (By W. B. Yeats) 18. CHURCH GOING (By Philip Larkin) 19. RHETORIC & PROSODY