Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read Poetry and Why: Poems from Eight Great Poets

Hart, Josephine

ISBN 10: 039306607X / ISBN 13: 9780393066074

Published by W.W. Norton, New York, 2008

About this Item

8vo, 238 pp., Includes a CD in the rear pocket.

Seller Inventory # 035754

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read Poetry and Why: Poems from Eight Great Poets
• Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039306607X
• ISBN 13: 9780393066074
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.

Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by an 80-minute CD recorded live at the British Library: Ralph Fiennes reading Auden, Edward Fox reading Eliot, Roger Moore reading Kipling, Harold Pinter reading Larkin, and more. Whether you believe (like Robert Frost, who inspired the title) that poetry is a way of “taking life by the throat” or (like T. S. Eliot) that it “is one person talking to another,” nobody does it better than the poets featured in this book. For a novice discovering the rich heritage of English-language verse or a seasoned poetry reader, Catching Life by the Throat is an extraordinary introduction to eight iconic poets.

About the Author

Josephine Hart (1942 - 2011) was the author of five novels, including Damage, Sin, and The Reconstructionist. She began hosting the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library in 2004.