Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered-in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period's poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and re…
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inhe…
This text equips students with strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poems. This edition contains: end-of-chapter exercises and research tasks; new readings of modern women's poetry; section on 'How to Write Poetry' with exercises; suggestions for …
Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:. End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks New readings of modern women's poetry Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises Suggestions for furth…
