Author: Andrew HodgsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
Author: Andrew HodgsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108843247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John SitterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
Reading Poetry
Author: Tom FurnissPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000548996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight. This third edition has been significantly updated in response to current developments in poetry and poetic criticism, and includes many new examples and exercises, new chapters on ‘world poetry’ and ‘eco-poetry’, and a greater emphasis throughout on American poetry, including the impact traditional Chinese poetry has had on modern American poetry. The seventeen carefully staged chapters constitute a complete apprenticeship in reading poetry, leading readers from specific features of form and figurative language to larger concerns with genre, intertextuality, Caribbean poetry, world poetry, and the role poetry can play in response to the ecological crisis. The workshop exercises at the end of each chapter, together with an extensive glossary of poetic and critical terms, and the number and range of poems analysed and discussed – 122 of which are quoted in full – make Reading Poetry suitable for individual study or as a comprehensive, self-contained textbook for university and college classes.
How to Read Middle English Poetry
Author: Daniel SawyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198895267
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and stanza-design, up to the play of larger forms across whole poems. How to Read Middle English Poetry covers major figures?such as Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Robert Henryson?but also delves into exciting anonymous lyrics, romances, and drama. It shows, too, how some modern poets have drawn on earlier poems, and how Middle English and early Scots provide crucial standpoints from which to think through present-day writing. Contextual sections discuss how poetry was heard aloud, introduce manuscripts and editing, and lay out Middle English poetry's ties to other tongues, including French, Welsh, and Latin. Critical terms are highlighted and explained both in the main text and in a full indexed glossary, while the uses of key tools such as the Middle English Dictionary are described and modeled. References to accessible editions and electronic resources mean that the book needs no accompanying anthology. At once thorough, wide-ranging, and practical, How to Read Middle English Poetry is indispensable for students exploring Middle English or early Scots, and for anyone curious about the heart of poetry's history.
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521874343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
Reading Poetry
Author: Tom FurnissPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317867467
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Successive chapters introduce key skills and critical or theoretical issues, enabling users to read poetry with enjoyment, insight and an awareness of the implications of what they are doing. This new edition includes a new chapter on ‘Post-colonial Poetry’, a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms. Not just an add-on, the Glossary works as a key resource for the structuring of particular topics in any individual teaching or learning programme. Many of the exercises and interactive discussions develop not only the skills of competent close reading but also the necessary confidence and experience in locating historical and other contextual information through library or internet searches. The aim is to enhance readers' literary and scholarly competence – and to make it fun!
The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
Author: Thomas N. CornsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.
The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry
Author: Linda K. HughesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.
A Short History of English Literature Until 1900
Author: Birgit NeumannPublisher: PONS
ISBN: 3129395407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
Author: Neil CorcoranPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113982810X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.