Author Description

[This book is] committed to helping students learn to read and enjoy poetry. [The book] offers many different ways of building and reinforcing the skills of reading; in addition to studying poems in terms of their elements, this book emphasizes reading works in different contexts - authorial, historical, cultural, and critical. [This book] offers in a single volume a complete course in reading and writing about poetry. It is both an anthology and a textbook... The [book] includes 483 poems.-Pref.