For more than four hundred years, people all over the world have been reading,watching and listening to the plays and poetry of the British writer William Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

In other words, the experience of reading poetry is not just an aesthetic experience.

也就是说，读诗并不,仅仅是美学的享受。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He says that poetry has to - reconcile all sorts of disparate experience-- reading Spinoza, the smell of cooking, the sound of the typewriter.

他还提到,诗歌要包含各种不同体验-,像Spinoza的学说，烹饪的气味和打字机的声响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Academy also wants Americans to know the pleasure of reading poetry.

VOA: special.2010.04.05