{"product_id":"how-to-read-a-poem-isbn-9781405151405","title":"How to Read a Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucid, entertaining and full of insight, \u003ci\u003eHow To Read A Poem\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Functions of Criticism 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The End of Criticism? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Politics and Rhetoric 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Death of Experience 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Imagination 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 What is Poetry? 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Poetry and Prose 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Poetry and Morality 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Poetry and Fiction 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Poetry and Pragmatism 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Poetic Language 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Formalists 48\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Literariness 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Estrangement 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Semiotics of Yury Lotman 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Incarnational Fallacy 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 In Pursuit of Form 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Meaning of Form 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Form versus Content 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Form as Transcending Content 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Poetry and Performance 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Two American Examples 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 How to Read a Poem 102\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Is Criticism Just Subjective? 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Meaning and Subjectivity 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Tone, Mood and Pitch 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Intensity and Pace 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Texture 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Syntax, Grammar and Punctuation 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Ambiguity 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Punctuation 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Rhyme 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Rhythm and Metre 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Imagery 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Four Nature Poems 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 William Wordsworth, 'The Solitary Reaper' 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'God's Grandeur' 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Edward Thomas, 'Fifty Faggots' 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Form and History 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 169\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The wit he brings to the task of helping readers read poems will, for some readers (myself included), be a source of pleasure.\" (\u003ci\u003eNotes and Queries,\u003c\/i\u003e June 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  “Eagleton raises many interesting points” –\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A how-to book with an agenda. Smart, witty and provocative ... \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us not only to look again at poetic form, but also to bring aesthetics back into our discussions fo what makes a poem worth studying. We may not agree with Eagleton, but we would do well to accept his challenge.\"–\u003ci\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Illuminating.\"–\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include \u003ci\u003eThe English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eSweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eScholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theory: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (Second Edition, 1996) and \u003ci\u003eThe Illusions of Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.  In this witty, accessible book, Terry Eagleton argues that the art of reading poetry is as much in danger of becoming extinct as thatching or clog dancing.  \u003cp\u003eOn the whole, students today are not taught how to be sensitive to language - how to read a poem with due attention to its tone, mood, pitch, pace, rhythm and texture, rather than just to 'what it says'. To demonstrate how this works in practice, the author takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating close analysis. As one of the world's leading literary theorists, Eagleton also summons the aid of such pioneering critics as the Russian Formalists to raise some provocative general questions:\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat is poetry, and how does it differ from prose?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs there a language peculiar to poetry?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat exactly do we mean by imagery?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucid, entertaining and full of insight, \u003ci\u003eHow To Read A Poem\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e  “From the first page, the reader of \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e realises that this, at last, is a book which begins to answer Adrian Mitchell's charge: 'Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people'. Eagleton introduces himself as 'a politically minded literary theorist'. The remarkable achievement of this book is to prove that such a theorist is the only person who can really show what poetry is for. By a brilliant and scrupulous series of readings - of Yeats and Frost and Auden and Dickinson - framed in a lively account of the function of criticism as perhaps only he could expound it, Eagleton shows how literary theory, seriously understood, is the ground of poetic understanding. This will be the indispensable apology for poetry in our time.” –\u003ci\u003eBernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford\u003cbr\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"With energy and wit, Eagleton proves once and for all that close readers and theoretical readers should be partners rather than enemies.\" –\u003ci\u003eJohn Redmond, Liverpool University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"...lucid and engaging...Eagleton's book 'designed as an introduction to poetry for students and general readers', is a breath of fresh air.\" \u003ci\u003e–Marjorie Perloff, TLS, Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989382480101,"sku":"NP9781405151405","price":73.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405151405.jpg?v=1761783895","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/how-to-read-a-poem-isbn-9781405151405","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}