How to read a poem
Presents an introduction to poetry. This text offers an examination of poetic form and its relation to content. It discusses the work of major poets including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W B Yeats, RobertFrost, W H Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Mahon.
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- Full title :How to read a poem / Terry Eagleton.
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Presents an introduction to poetry. This text offers an examination of poetic form and its relation to content. It discusses the work of major poets including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W B Yeats, RobertFrost, W H Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Mahon.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 182 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781405151405, 1405151404, 1405151412, 9781405151412
- oclc:ocm67375046
- LC Classification:PR502
- Dewey Decimal:808.1
Table of Contents
1. The functions of criticism -- 2. What is poetry? -- 3. Formalists -- 4. In pursuit of form -- 5. How to read a poem -- 6. Four nature poems : 1. William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' ; 2. William Wordsworth, 'The Solitary Reaper' ; 3. Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'God's Grandeur' ; 4. Edward Thomas, 'Fifty Faggots' ; 5. Form and history.
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