Poetry : A Basic Course

by Allen R. Grossman

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry

Audio Cassette

First published June 1, 1992

Reviews

[Gebo · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is one of the most nonsensical POS I’ve ever listened to. The author is so pretentious and yet still sloppily jargony such that his words mean practically nothing. It’s kind of amazing as a rhetorical analysis of a pretentious, unintelligible babbling fool, but if you are curious about what most would call poetry worth analyzing or what makes it interesting, this is not the course for you. He begins with London Bridge is Falling Down and even manages to obfuscate that to such a level that it’s both mind-numbing and quizzical, but not about the content of course, that Great Courses/TTC would release this 💩.

[Curtis · Rating 1 out of 5]

I liked neither the content nor the delivery. This begins with a presentation and analysis of London Bridge, and moves on to a Scottish epic poem. I found it uninspired and hard to understand. I was hoping for more concrete discussion about what poetry is and how to approach it. I gave up on this series after a couple of lectures and moved on to a different one.