How to Read a Poem

By Terry Eagleton

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem 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.

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• Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.
  
• Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis.
  
• Discusses 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.
  
• Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Dec 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781118306215

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton is a literary critic, writer and chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing. He is the author of Shakespeare and Society amongst many other works.

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Reviews for How to Read a Poem

[xleptodactylous · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Misleading title. You read a poem using your eyes and whatever it is that makes your heart go boom.

[leifalreadyexists · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Eagleton reigns back his raging ideological hounds in this wonderful explanatory book. Humorous, technical, and accessible, I found it both fun and informational. My only quibble is that his poetry selections are fairly uniform, and his analysis of "Four Nature Poems" in the back is not only arbitrarily limited, but also fairly unadventureous. It would have been nice to see Eagleton take on something uncanonical or exciting.