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Living Poetry demonstrates that poems are vital expressions of how we live, feel and think. Lucidly written and jargon free, it introduces a range of poems from the Elizabethan age to the present day, presenting practical models of close reading and a stimulating rationale for the power of poetry to move and excite us.
'Living Poetry is a passionately written and clear introduction that offers a strong overview of English poetry. It is an extremely useful book and guides readers through an impressive range of poems, granting them an array of ideas to be developed in their own work.' - Emma Mason, Reader in English Literature, University of Warwick, UK 'There's nothing currently available that is quite so friendly or so steady in its writing...The writing is clear and precise and uncluttered by jargon. I think many will welcome such a volume and find it very helpful.' - Martin Coyle, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK
| Principal Poems and Extracts Discussed | p. vi |
| Preface | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Elements of Poetry | |
| Form and Technique | p. 13 |
| Living Poetry | |
| Feeling: The Experience of Emotion in Poems from the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century | p. 51 |
| Thinking: Varieties of Thought from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth Century | p. 82 |
| Doing: Poetry of Action from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth Century | p. 119 |
| Living and Dying: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century | p. 144 |
| Poetry Lives | |
| Writing and Reading Poems in the Present | p. 175 |
| Notes | p. 184 |
| Index of Literary and Grammatical Terms | p. 192 |
| General Index | p. 195 |
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ISBN: 9780230301719
ISBN-10: 0230301711
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 216
Published: 15th February 2012
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8
x 1.2
Weight (kg): 0.277
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