How to Read a Poem, Paperback

Contributor(s):

• Author: Terry Eagleton

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poemis designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends thesubject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personalpossession of the students and the general reader.

• Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relationto content.
  
• Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the presentday and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closesanalysis.
  
• 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.