Lucid entertaining and full of insight <strong>How To Read A Poem</strong> is designed tobanish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry an... » 

Lucid entertaining and full of insight How To Read A Poem is designed tobanish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry and indoing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and thegeneral reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relationto content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present dayand submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis. Discusses thework of major poets including John Milton Alexander Pope John KeatsChristina Rossetti Emily Dickinson W.B. Yeats Robert Frost W.H.AudenSeamus Heaney Derek Mahon and many more. Includes a helpful glossary ofpoetic terms. «