How to Read a Poem

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.

Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the prese...

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.

Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis.

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.

作者：特里•伊格尔顿，1943年生于英国曼彻斯特。曾长期任教于牛津大学，现为曼彻斯特大学讲座教授；是当代著名的文学理论家和具有独特风格的文化批评家。从1960年代至今，他已出版著作数十种，如《批评与意识形态：马克思主义文学理论研究》 《马克思主义与文学批评》 《瓦尔特•本雅明，或革命的批评》 《文学理论引论》 《批评的作用：从观察家到后结构主义》 《审美意识形态》等，其中多种已被译成中文出版。

译者：陈太胜，1971年生，北京师范大学文学院教授。出版有诗集《在陌生人中旅行》、专著《梁宗岱与中国象征主义诗学》 《象征主义与中国现代诗学》 《声音、翻译和新旧之争——中国新诗的现代性之路》等。