Poetry

· Edinburgh University Press
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256
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About this ebook

Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:* End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks* New readings of modern women's poetry* Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises* Suggestions for further reading - both books and websitesBased on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.

About the author

John Strachan is Professor of English at the University of Sunderland. Richard Terry was Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University, having previously worked for many years at the University of Sunderland. He has written numerous articles on aspects of eighteenth-century literature, as well as producing major studies on literary historiography, mock-heroic writing, and the allegation of plagiarism during the period.

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