William Hutchings

Living Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Reading Poems from Shakespeare to Don Paterson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350310155
• Artikelnr.: 62718672

Autorenporträt

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.

William Hutchings is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

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.