TY  - BOOK
AU  - Furniss,Tom
AU  - Bath,Michael‏
TI  - Reading poetry: an introduction 
SN  - 9780582894204
U1  - 808.1 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
KW  - English poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Poetry
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - October2016
KW  - Reading book
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -