Reading Poetry provides an introduction to the ideas and techniques that can help students produce informed and exciting readings of poetry. A wide spectrum of examples has been included, ranging from fifteenth-century lyrics and ballads to contemporary poetry from all over the English-speaking world.
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"ReadingPoetrystands out from other introductions to poetry in its brilliant combination of practical guidance and theoretical savvy. Students who use this book will be helped to enjoy and discuss poems, introduced to some of the major varieties of poetic criticism, and invited to reflect on what makes poetry important today. Reading Poetry is, in my view, the best introductory book on the study of poetry available. "
Professor Derek Attridge, Universityof York
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Reading Poetry provides an introduction to the ideas and techniques that can help students produce informed and exciting readings of poetry. Many readers will have already acquired the basis for self-conscious and self-critical reading strategies through their everyday responses to popular culture. This innovative new textbook will help develop these strategies and interpretive skills by recognizing and explaining the open and multi- dimensional qualities of the poetic text. At the same time, Reading Poetry is theoretically informed and up-to-date, taking into account the wealth of theoretical speculation about poetry, and literature in general, the twentieth century has produced. A wide spectrum of examples has been included, ranging from fifteenth-century lyrics and ballads to contemporary poetry from all over the English-speaking world.
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Excellent book,
This review is from: Reading Poetry: An Introduction (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This is absolutely the best textbook available on this subject. It's a big book, and not an easy one, but it offers substantial rewards to anyone who reads it attentively. It worked beautifully for my Introduction to Poetry course, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to become a more proficient reader of poetry.
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reader response theory, lexical ambiguity, postcolonial poetry, double syntax, suspended syntax, industrious valour, poetic speaker, long black land, poem several times, duple metre, double pattern, startled little waves, natural speech rhythms, quick sharp scratch, slushy sand, fiery ringlets, wild abyss, implicit metaphors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Formal Introduction, Textual Strategies, United States, New Criticism, Paradise Lost, New York, Oxford University Press, Lord Randal, Standard English, Hearing Voices, South Africa, New Critics, Significant Form, New Critical, Map of Misreading, West Indies, Post-colonial Poetry, Shakespeare's Sonnet, Cleanth Brooks, West Indian, Don Juan, Introducing Contexts, Poetic Texts, Empire Writes Back, Barrett Browning Browse Sample Pages:
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reader response theory, lexical ambiguity, postcolonial poetry, double syntax, suspended syntax, industrious valour, poetic speaker, long black land, poem several times, duple metre, double pattern, startled little waves, natural speech rhythms, quick sharp scratch, slushy sand, fiery ringlets, wild abyss, implicit metaphors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Formal Introduction, Textual Strategies, United States, New Criticism, Paradise Lost, New York, Oxford University Press, Lord Randal, Standard English, Hearing Voices, South Africa, New Critics, Significant Form, New Critical, Map of Misreading, West Indies, Post-colonial Poetry, Shakespeare's Sonnet, Cleanth Brooks, West Indian, Don Juan, Introducing Contexts, Poetic Texts, Empire Writes Back, Barrett Browning Browse Sample Pages:
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