《英语诗歌教程:诗歌要素与诗歌种类》主要讲述了：This book is different from other poetry textbooks in the following ways.First,focusis shifted from poets to knowledge about poetry and sample poems.The poetic knowledgeis explained in great detail and simple terms.The book provides students with a systematicexplanation of types,elements and themes of poetry.Second,a comparative approach is adoptedin designing some questions for discussion.Many English poems are studied in a comparativecontext,eliciting students'attention to both English poetry and Chinese poetry.Third,thedesign of the questions is bold in the sense that various tasks are assigned: ranging fromanalyzing,reciting,translating to making comments,making comparisons,and even experiencingpoetry-writing.