Living Poetry: Reading Poems from Shakespeare to Don Paterson

ISBN-13: 9780230301719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str.

William Hutchings

Opis

Living Poetry demonstrates that poems are vital expressions of how we live, feel and think. Lucidly written and jargon free, it introduces a range of poems from the Elizabethan age to the present day, presenting practical models of close reading and a stimulating rationale for the power of poetry to move and excite us.

Spis treści

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: ELEMENTS OF POETRY.- Form and Technique.- PART II: LIVING POETRY.- Feeling: The Experience of Emotion in Poems from the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries.- Thinking: Varieties of Thought from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries.- Doing: Poetry of Action from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries.- Living and Dying: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.- PART III: POETRY LIVES.- Writing and Reading Poems in the Present.- Index.

O autorze

WILLIAM HUTCHINGS was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally, while continuing to teach Eighteenth-century Literature at the University of Manchester. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems (Carcanet: 1988), the author ofThe Poetry of William Cowper (Croom Helm: 1983) and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students (Edward Arnold: 1989).