Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part One Formal Introduction
1 What Is Poetry? How Do We Read It?
2 Rhythm and Metre
3 Significant Form: Metre and Syntax
4 Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language
Part Two Textual Strategies
5 Figurative Language
6 Poetic Metaphor
7 Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts
8 Voices with Attitude: Tone and Irony
9 Ambiguity
Part Three Texts in Contexts/Contexts in Texts
10 Introducing Contexts
11 Genre
12 The Sonnet
13 Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality
14 Poetry, Discourse, History
15 The Locations of Poetry
16 Post-Colonial Poetry
Part Four An Open-ended Conclusion
17 Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability
Glossary
Key to Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises
Bibliography
Index
The essential introduction to the skills needed to read and really enjoy poetry.
Dr Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the Universityof Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he has spent nearly twenty years teaching poetry, literary theory and Romanticism. He is co-author of Ways of Reading, now in its third edition, and Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology (1993). Professor Michael Bath was also at the University of Strathclyde until his retirement, specialising in Renaissance emblem books, iconography, iconology and poetics. His publications include "Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture "(1994) and "Decorative Painting in "Scotland "(2002).
"ReadingPoetrystands out from other introductions to poetry in its brilliant combination of practical guidance and theoretical savvy. Students who use this book will be helped to enjoy and discuss poems, introduced to some of the major varieties of poetic criticism, and invited to reflect on what makes poetry important today. Reading Poetry is, in my view, the best introductory book on the study of poetry available. " "Professor Derek Attridge, Universityof York"
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