Living poetry : reading poems from Shakespeare to Don Paterson / William Hutchings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchings, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

x, 201 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Breaking poems down to their very essence, Living Poetry explores how poetry written in the past can speak directly and powerfully to present-day readers. This lucidly written book consists of two parts: the first carefully explores how poets use language, form and other techniques in the craft of poetry, offering a variety of close readings along the way. The second demonstrates how poetry reflects essential aspects of the living experience, such as loving, remembering, rejoicing and mourning.

Offering a large selection of both familiar and forgotten poems, William Hutchings encourages readers to express for themselves the significance and power of this most creative of literary forms. Book jacket.

Contents:

Principal poems and extracts discussed

Introduction

pt. 1: Elements of poetry. Form and technique

pt. 2: Living poetry. Feeling : the experience of emotion in poems from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century

Thinking : varieties of thought from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century

Doing : poetry of action from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century

Living and dying : from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century

pt. 3: Poetry lives. Writing and reading poems in the present

Index of literary and grammatical terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230301702

0230301703

9780230301719

0230301711

OCLC:

770694120