Don't read poetry : a book about how to read poems / Stephanie Burt.
2019
PS303 .B86 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Don't read poetry : a book about how to read poems / Stephanie Burt.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780465094509 (hardcover)
0465094503 (hardcover)
9780465094516 (electronic book)
0465094503 (hardcover)
9780465094516 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Language
English
Description
ix, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS303 .B86 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.009
Summary
"In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Reading poems
Feelings
Characters
Technique
Difficulty
Wisdom
Community.
Feelings
Characters
Technique
Difficulty
Wisdom
Community.