How to Read a Poem - Eagleton, Terry (University of Manchester, UK)
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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,…mehr

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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.
Autorenporträt
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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"The wit he brings to the task of helping readers read poems will,for some readers (myself included), be a source of pleasure."(Notes and Queries, June 2010)

"From the first page, the reader of How to Read aPoem realises that this, at last, is a book which begins toanswer Adrian Mitchell's charge: 'Most people ignore most poetrybecause most poetry ignores most people'. Eagleton introduceshimself as 'a politically minded literary theorist'. The remarkableachievement of this book is to prove that such a theorist is theonly person who can really show what poetry is for. By a brilliantand scrupulous series of readings - of Yeats and Frost and Audenand Dickinson - framed in a lively account of the function ofcriticism as perhaps only he could expound it, Eagleton shows howliterary theory, seriously understood, is the ground of poeticunderstanding. This will be the indispensable apology for poetry inour time."
Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford

"With energy and wit, Eagleton proves once and for all thatclose readers and theoretical readers should be partners ratherthan enemies." John Redmond, Liverpool University

"...lucid and engaging...Eagleton's book 'designed as anintroduction to poetry for students and general readers', is abreath of fresh air." Marjorie Perloff, TLS, Books of theYear

"Eagleton raises many interesting points"Choice

"A how-to book with an agenda. Smart, witty andprovocative ... How to Read a Poem challenges us not only tolook again at poetic form, but also to bring aesthetics back intoour discussions fo what makes a poem worth studying. We may notagree with Eagleton, but we would do well to accept hischallenge."

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