Poetry is an accessible and clearly written guide to the study of poetry. It aims to equip bou students and the general reader with a body of technical information that will sharpena deepen their engagement with individual poems. John Strachan and Richard Terry provide t reader with a lively route map through what might on first experience seem the most dauntin aspects of poetry: poetic sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems a the page, the language of poetry and the use made by poets of techniques of comparison am association.
The book's discussion of poetic terminology is allied throughout to illustrative reading that show the usefulness of the terminology in approaching particular poems. Its emphasis always a practical one, demonstrating how poems actually work. Beginning with an historic overview of the development of English poetry from its earliest origins and finishin with an authoritative glossary of poetical terms, Poetry is an indispensable guide to t understanding of poetry.
Features
• Gives concrete illustrations of the technical aspects of poetry
• Contains detailed analyses of individual poems
• Based on the authors' practical experience of teaching poetry
• Includes a comprehensive glossary of poetical terms
• Contains a helpful system of cross-referencing and a detailed index
John Strachan is Reader in Romantic Literature at the University of Sunderland. Richard Terr Reader in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sunderland.