Catching life by the throat : how to read poetry and why : poems from eight great poets / [edited by] Josephine Hart.
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TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xin, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)ISBN: - 039306607X
- 9780393066074
- American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American poetry -- 19th century
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American poetry -- 20th century
- English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English poetry -- 19th century
- English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- English poetry -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published: London : Virago, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.
W.H. Auden -- Emily Dickinson -- T.S. Eliot -- Rudyard Kipling -- Philip Larkin -- Marianne Moore -- Sylvia Plath -- William Butler Yeats.