How to Read a Poem

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.

Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 10/12/2006
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781405151412
ISBN10: 1405151412
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry

About the Author
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996) and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.

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