How to Read a Poem

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.

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.

Genres poetrynonfictionliterary criticismcriticismliteratureliterary fictionreferencephilosophylanguageschool

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 20,2006

This edition

Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Published: October 20, 2006 by Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405151412
ASIN: 1405151412
Language: English

About the author

terry eagleton

Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr. Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to the University of Notre Dame in the Autumn '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.

He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures and gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.