Studying Poetry
Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide variety of examples, from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan.

Key Features:
An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to poetry which takes students through the essentials to enhance both their understanding and their appreciation.
Contains a wonderfully diverse collection of poems, from Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, which truly engage the reader. The authors' style mixes humor with erudition and allows students to easily absorb the information they need without repetitive re-reading. New to this edition is a chapter on the importance of poetry which examines the many ways in which poetry is expressed in youth culture today. This second edition has also seen updates throughout and the introduction of some more contemporary poems to align with course curriculum.

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Studying Poetry
Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide variety of examples, from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan.

Key Features:
An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to poetry which takes students through the essentials to enhance both their understanding and their appreciation.
Contains a wonderfully diverse collection of poems, from Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, which truly engage the reader. The authors' style mixes humor with erudition and allows students to easily absorb the information they need without repetitive re-reading. New to this edition is a chapter on the importance of poetry which examines the many ways in which poetry is expressed in youth culture today. This second edition has also seen updates throughout and the introduction of some more contemporary poems to align with course curriculum.

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Studying Poetry

Studying Poetry

by Stephen Matterson, Darryl Jones
Studying Poetry

Studying Poetry

by Stephen Matterson, Darryl Jones

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Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide variety of examples, from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan.

Key Features:
An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to poetry which takes students through the essentials to enhance both their understanding and their appreciation.
Contains a wonderfully diverse collection of poems, from Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, which truly engage the reader. The authors' style mixes humor with erudition and allows students to easily absorb the information they need without repetitive re-reading. New to this edition is a chapter on the importance of poetry which examines the many ways in which poetry is expressed in youth culture today. This second edition has also seen updates throughout and the introduction of some more contemporary poems to align with course curriculum.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780340985151
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/06/2011
Series: Studying... , #2
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Stephen Matterson is Professor of English and Head of the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Stephen Matterson is Professor of English Studies and a Fellow of the College at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He is the author or editor of nine books and over sixty articles, essays and reviews on aspects of US literature. His past publications include Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man (edited with an Introduction and Notes; Penguin Classics, 1990); American Literature: The Essential Glossary (Oxford University Press, 2003); The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman (edited with an introduction and notes, Wordsworth, 2006); and Studying Poetry (with Darryl Jones; 1st edition 2000; Oxford University Press; updated and enlarged second edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011).



Darryl Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsvi
Introduction1
Part IForm and Meaning
1Poem and form9
2Poem and communication33
3Poem and tradition53
Part IICritical Approaches
4Poem as object73
5Poem and author93
6Poem and reader108
Part IIIInterpreting Poetry
7The poem in history125
8Public poetry143
9The limits of poetry156
Further reading168
Glossary170
Index179
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