Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface                                                                                                                    

Part One    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                                           

Part Two    Textual Strategies

  5     Figurative Language                                                                                           

  6     Poetic Metaphor                                                                                          ...

Autorentext

Dr Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the Universityof Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he has spent nearly twenty years teaching poetry, literary theory and Romanticism. He is co-author of Ways of Reading, now in its third edition, and Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology (1993). Professor Michael Bath was also at the University of Strathclyde until his retirement, specialising in Renaissance emblem books, iconography, iconology and poetics. His publications include "Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture "(1994) and "Decorative Painting in "Scotland "(2002).

Klappentext

"The "essential introduction to the skills needed to read - and really enjoy - poetry.

• Includes almost 100 poems or substantial passages from poems, with full guides to further reading to help students with their study
• Exercises at the end of each chapter will help students practise and develop their skills in reading poetry

Contents Acknowledgements Preface Part One 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 Part Two Textual Strategies 5 Figurative Language 6 Poetic Metaphor 7 Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts 8 Voices with Attitude: Tone and Irony 9 Ambiguity Part Three 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 Part Four An Open-ended Conclusion 17 Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability Glossary Key to Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises Bibliography Index