How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C Foster (Paperback, 2018)

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Subtitle A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse. 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.

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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.

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PublisherHarperCollins INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780062113788
eBay Product ID (ePID)13046512214

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Book TitleHow to Read Poetry like a Professor: a Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Publication Year2018
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
AuthorThomas C Foster
TopicLiterature
Number of Pages224 Pages

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Item Height203 mm
Item Weight173 g
Item Width135 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorThomas C Foster

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  • BRILLIANT BOOK

    THE CONVERSATIONAL CLASSROOM REPARTEE STYLE OF STYLE MAKES A COMPLEX SUBJECT DIGESTABLE. THEREADING POETRY LIKE A PROFESSOR EXPLAINS EVERYTHING ABOUT POETRY THAT WOULD BE COVERED IN A UNIVERSITYCOURSE ABOUT POETRY . THE AUTHOR OBVIOUSLY LOVES HIS SUBJECT AND POETS. THIS IS A BRILLIANTLY EDUCATIONAL AND TREASURE OF A BOOK

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    A most interesting book it really helps you appreciate poetry

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