Living Poetry Reading Poems from Shakespeare to Don Paterson

by Hutchings, William

• ISBN13: 9780230301719
• ISBN10: 0230301711
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Living Poetrydemonstrates that poems are vital expressions of how we live, feel and think. Lucidly written and jargon free, it introduces a range of poems from the Elizabethan age to the present day, presenting practical models of close reading and a stimulating rationale for the power of poetry to move and excite us.

Author Biography

William Hutchings was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems (Carcanet: 1988), the author of The Poetry of William Cowper(Croom Helm: 1983) and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students (Edward Arnold: 1989).

Table of Contents

Principal Poems and Extracts Discussed	p. vi
Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Elements of Poetry
Form and Technique	p. 13
Living Poetry
Feeling: The Experience of Emotion in Poems from the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century	p. 51
Thinking: Varieties of Thought from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth Century	p. 82
Doing: Poetry of Action from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth Century	p. 119
Living and Dying: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century	p. 144
Poetry Lives
Writing and Reading Poems in the Present	p. 175
Notes	p. 184
Index of Literary and Grammatical Terms	p. 192
General Index	p. 195
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