Textbook
How to Read a PoemISBN: 978-1-4051-5141-2
Paperback
192 pages
October 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- A thoughtful and often witty introduction to poetry suitable
for both students and general readers.
- Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists.
- Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.
- Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present
day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes
analysis.
- Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton,
Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson,
W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,
and many more.
- Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.