How to Read a Poem

Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, Terry Eagleton's How to Read a Poem is a thoughtful and witty introduction to poetry. Often considered an intimidating undertaking, this text offers an accessible, detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.Discussing 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, and Derek Mahon, How to Read a Poem is an accessible survey of the form and function of poetry. This volume also includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms to help broaden comprehension of this extensive subject.

Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996) and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.