Reading poetry :
Furniss, Tom,
Reading poetry : an introduction / Tom Furniss, Michael Bath. - Second edition. - xviii, 628 pages ; 24 cm
First published : London: Prentice Hall, 1996. Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Formal Introduction : 1. What Is Poetry? How Do We Read It? -- 2. Rhythm and Metre -- 3. Significant Form: Metre and Syntax -- 4. Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language -- pt. 2. Textual Strategies: 5. Figurative Language -- 6. Poetic Metaphor -- 7. Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts -- 8. Speakers with Attitude: Tone and Irony -- 9. Ambiguity -- pt. 3. Texts in Contexts/Contexts in Texts: 10. Introducing Contexts -- 11. Genre -- 12. The Sonnet -- 13. Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality -- 14. Poetry, Discourse, History 15. The Locations of Poetry -- 16. Post-Colonial Poetry -- pt. 4. : An Open-ended Conclusion: 17. Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability.
A guide to the arts of reading, analysing and enjoying poetry. While emphasising the importance of close textual analysis - or reading in slow motion - it demonstrates how an understanding of form, language and context can combine to produce sophisticated and original responses to all types of poetry.
9780582894204
English poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry --History and criticism.
--Reading book
808.1 / FUR
Reading poetry : an introduction / Tom Furniss, Michael Bath. - Second edition. - xviii, 628 pages ; 24 cm
First published : London: Prentice Hall, 1996. Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Formal Introduction : 1. What Is Poetry? How Do We Read It? -- 2. Rhythm and Metre -- 3. Significant Form: Metre and Syntax -- 4. Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language -- pt. 2. Textual Strategies: 5. Figurative Language -- 6. Poetic Metaphor -- 7. Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts -- 8. Speakers with Attitude: Tone and Irony -- 9. Ambiguity -- pt. 3. Texts in Contexts/Contexts in Texts: 10. Introducing Contexts -- 11. Genre -- 12. The Sonnet -- 13. Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality -- 14. Poetry, Discourse, History 15. The Locations of Poetry -- 16. Post-Colonial Poetry -- pt. 4. : An Open-ended Conclusion: 17. Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability.
A guide to the arts of reading, analysing and enjoying poetry. While emphasising the importance of close textual analysis - or reading in slow motion - it demonstrates how an understanding of form, language and context can combine to produce sophisticated and original responses to all types of poetry.
9780582894204
English poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry --History and criticism.
--Reading book
808.1 / FUR