How to Read a Poem

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poemis designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends thesubject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personalpossession of the students and the general reader. * * Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relationto content. * Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the presentday and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closesanalysis. * Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton,Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson,W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,and many more. * Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.