Reading Poetry: An Introduction

by Tom Furniss, Michael Bath

Reading Poetry provides an introduction to the ideas and techniques that can help students produce informed and exciting readings of poetry. A wide spectrum of examples has been included, ranging from fifteenth-century lyrics and ballads to contemporary poetry from all over the English-speaking world.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Academic

427 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

About the author

Tom Furniss is Senior lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is author of Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology (1993) and Reading Poetry (20070, together with a number of articles on the politics and philoophy of the late Enlightenment. His interest in the Romantic writing of Scottish landscape is reflected in essays on the landscape and geology of the Trossachs and on James Hutton's 1788 'Theory of the Earth'.

Reviews

[Jamie Nickerson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taught me how to analyze poems and prose.

[Indigo Wayworth · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not like this. Learned minimal, save for certain rhetorical and literary terms, and even then, the glossary is absolutely useless. Save your time, and don't if you have to read this for class? Godspeed, friends.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellently structured. As it moves through higher-level (and more difficult) topics in analysis, it introduces new and more modern critical approaches.