由陆如钢编著的《英语诗歌欣赏》是供高等学校英语专业或具有同等水平的英语学习者使用的英文诗歌赏析教材，旨在提高学生阅读、分析和品味诗歌的能力。
《英语诗歌欣赏》从感性和理性两个层面专门介绍英语诗歌的相关知识；深入简出地介绍了英文诗歌欣赏的基本方法和技巧，授学习者以“渔”；介绍并具体分析了大量英美诗歌中的经典名篇，不求面面俱到，但求重点突出；课堂互动形式多样，可操作性强，并配有详细的参考答案；强调诗歌解读的开放性，给学习者留下广阔的发挥空间。

Unit One How Does a Poem Work？
Section 1 Line Arrangement and Appreciation
Section 2 Words and Meanings
Section 3 Inversion and Foregrounding
Section 4 Recurrence and Patterning
Unit Two The Techniques of Verse
Section 1 Rhythm
Section 2 Meter
Section 3 Rhyme
Section 4 Sound
Unit Three Components of Poetry
Section 1 Speaker
Section 2 Setting
Section 3 Subject and Theme
Unit Four Sense of Poetry
Section 1 Abstraction and Concretion
Section 2 Image and Imagery
Unit Five Figurative Language
Section 1 The Literal and the Figurative
Section 2 Simile and Metaphor
Section 3 Personification
Section 4 Symbols
Section 5 Irony and Satire
Glossary of Poetic Terms
Key to Exercises
Bibliography