Reading Poetry

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight.

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Tom Furniss recently retired from the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in 2017, after teaching poetry, Romanticism, and literary theory for 30 years. He is the author of two monographs on Romanticism, co-author of several editions of the textbook Ways of Reading (Routledge) and recently published two collections of poetry.

Michael Bath is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Strathclyde, where he taught English literature for 40 years, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Author of numerous books and articles on literature and the visual arts, he specialises in emblem studies and in 2014 he was elected President of the international Society for Emblem Studies.

Inhalt
PartI. Formal Introduction 1. What is Poetry? How Should we Read it? 2. Rhythm and Metre 3. Significant Form: Metre and Syntax 4. Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language PartII. Textual Strategies 5. Figurative Language 6. Poetic Metaphor 7. Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts 8. Speakers with Attitude: Tone and Irony 9. Ambiguity 10. Closure, Pluralismand Undecidability PartIII. Text in Contexts/Contexts in Texts 11. Introducing Contexts 12. Genre 13. The Sonnet 14. Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality 15. Post-Colonial Poetry 16. World Poetry 17. The Poetry of the Earth Glossary Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises Bibliography