How to Read a Poem

Terry Eagleton

ISBN 10: 1405151412 / ISBN 13: 9781405151412

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2006

About this Item

2006. 1st Edition. Paperback. Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. * Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Read a Poem
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405151412
• ISBN 13: 9781405151412
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.

• 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.

About the Author

Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996) and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.