How to Read a Poem

✍ Scribed by Terry Eagleton

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

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• 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page
Table of
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The functions of criticism
1.1 The end of criticism?
1.2 Politics and rhetoric
1.3 The death of experience
1.4 Imagination
Chapter 2: What is poetry?
2.1 Poetry and prose
2.2 Poetry and morality
2.3 Poetry and fiction
2.4 Poetry and pragmatism
2.5 Poetic language
Chapter 3: Formalists
3.1 Literariness
3.2 Strangement
3.3 The semiotics of yury lotman
3.4 The incarnational fallacy
Chapter 4: In pursuit of form
4.1 The meaning of form
4.2 Form versus content
4.3 Form as transcending content
4.4 Poetry and performance
4.5 Two american examples
Chapter 5: How to read a poem
5.1 Is criticism just subjective?
5.2 Meaning and subjectivity
5.3 Tone, mood and pitch
5.4 Intensity and pace
5.5 Texture
5.6 Syntax, grammar and punctuation
5.7 Ambiguity
5.8 Punctuation
5.9 Rhyme
5.10 Rhythm and metre
5.11 Imagery
Four nature poems
6.1 William collins, ‘ode to evening’
6.2 William wordsworth, ‘the solitary reaper’
6.3 Gerard manley hopkins, ‘god’s grandeur’
6.4 Edward thomas, ‘fifty faggots’
6.5 Form and history
Glossary
Index