Reading poetry

✍ Scribed by Peter Barry

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 228
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface. About this book
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘One small step’
Part I Reading the lines
Meaning
Imagery
Diction
Metre
Form
Part II Reading between the lines
Close and distant reading
Feeling and sentiment
Text and context
Poems and pictures
Sequences and clusters
Part III Reading beyond the lines
Time and place
Poetry with theory
Minimalism and micro-poetry
Concrete canticles
Textual genesis
End-note
List of poems discussed
Glossary
Further reading
Index

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