Invitation to Poetry: The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

“To the casual reader, Steinman explains how poems work; to the critical reader, why they keep working. Ranging over several centuries, styles, genres, and modes of English verse, Invitation to Poetry provides both the tools needed to ‘play with poems’ and a manual in their use.”
C. D. Blanton, University of California, Berkeley

“Lisa Steinman’s Invitation to Poetry, with its effortless scholarship and engaging manner, offers a wonderful introduction to the study of poetry. This is a beautifully-written book which offers many pleasures, and for those who read attentively, a tremendous depth of reference underpinning its argument.”
Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London