Description: Further DetailsTitle: How to Read Poetry Like a ProfessorCondition: NewEAN: 9780062113788ISBN: 9780062113788Publisher: HarperCollinsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/03/2018Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 173gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to VerseISBN-10: 006211378XDescription: From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge. Poetry demands more from readers—intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually—than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn’t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.E. Cummings, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers:How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning.The different technical elements of poetry such as meter, diction, rhyme, line structures, length, order, regularity, and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries.How to listen for a poem’s secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up.How to hear the music in poems—and the poetry in songs! With How to Read Poetry Like a Professor, readers can rediscover poetry and reap its many rewards. Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismAuthor: Thomas C. FosterRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
Title: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
EAN: 9780062113788
ISBN: 9780062113788
Release Date: 05/03/2018
Release Year: 2018
Subtitle: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
ISBN-10: 006211378X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: How to Read Poetry like a Professor : a Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: American / African American, Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Study & Teaching, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 5.9 Oz
Subject Area: Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
Item Length: 8.1 in
Author: Thomas C. Foster
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
