The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
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At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feeling and subject matter which illuminate what a poem has to say. In a lucid and sympathetic manner, he considers a diverse range of poets writing in English to demonstrate how their work…
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Key features
- Demonstrates how reading poetry enriches our experience and understanding of life and shows - even before engaging with more technical aspects of analysis - that poetry matters
- Furnishes students with an array of differing approaches to the challenge of unlocking a poem, providing worked examples and taking the reader through the process of rising to that challenge
- Puts readers at ease by showing the 'difficulty' of poetry to be something felt by everyone
- Reveals how technical questions are always bound up with what a poem has to say and show us, thus training students to see metre and rhyme as means of expression and not merely matter for dry analysis
- Models the process of independent research step-by-step, showing students where to start, how to develop their ideas, and how to draw conclusions
- Offers substantial guidance on how to organise and write essays, close readings & commentaries
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108915212
- Subjects English Literature: General Interest,Literature
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 03 February 2022
- ISBN: 9781108843249
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.5kg
- Page extent: 256 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 03 February 2022
- ISBN: 9781108824125
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.38kg
- Page extent: 256 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 04 November 2021
- ISBN: 9781108915212
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