Reading Poetry : A Complete Coursebook (Paperback, 3 ed)

Part1. Formal Introduction 1. What is Poetry? How Should we Read it? 2. Rhythm and Metre 3. Significant Form: Metre and Syntax 4. Creative Form Part2. Textual Strategies 5. Figurative Language 6. Poetic Metaphor 7. Hearing Voices 8. Speakers with Attitude: Tone and Irony 9. Ambiguity 10. Closure and Undecidability Part3. 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