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How to read a poem / Terry Eagleton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Description: ix, 182 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1405151404 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405151412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781405151405 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781405151412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
The functions of criticism -- What is poetry? -- Formalists -- In pursuit of form -- How to read a poem -- Four nature poems.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 808.1 E11 Available 33111005319187
Total holds: 0

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The functions of criticism -- What is poetry? -- Formalists -- In pursuit of form -- How to read a poem -- Four nature poems.

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