Synopses & Reviews
Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:* End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks* New readings of modern women's poetry* Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises* Suggestions for further reading - both books and websitesBased on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.
Synopsis
Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this volume provides a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.
Synopsis
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Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems New for this edition:
- End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks
- New readings of modern women's poetry
- Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises
- Suggestions for further reading - both books and websites
Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.
Key Features
- Packed full of examples, from the work of Shakespeare to Edwin Morgan and from Sylvia Plath to John Agard
- Detailed index of poets, works, terms, forms & concepts
- Full glossary of poetic terms, from acatalectic to wrenched accent, with cross-references and page references of examples
Praise for the first edition: 'Wide-ranging, provocative, and thorough, Strachan and Terry provide the student with all the tools necessary for the study of poetry. I can think of no other volume that offers the reader so much in so few pages. This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of the subject.'
Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow
Synopsis
Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poemsPraise for the first edition: 'Wide-ranging, provocative, and thorough, Strachan and Terry provide the student with all the tools necessary for the study of poetry. I can think of no other volume that offers the reader so much in so few pages. This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of the subject.'Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. o Packed full of examples, from the work of Shakespeare to Edwin Morgan and from Sylvia Plath to John Agardo Detailed index of poets, works, terms, forms & conceptso Full glossary of poetic terms, from /acatalectic/ to /wrenched accent/, with cross-references and page references of examplesNew for this edition: o End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research taskso New readings of modern women's poetryo Section on How to Write Poetry with exerciseso Suggestions for further reading - both books and websites
About the Author
John Strachan is Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.
Richard Terry is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the Northumbria University.