Author Description

Offers a detailed discussion and introduction to poetic technique: Emphasis on practical criticism helps students gain a new appreciation for poetry and to really learn how poems work. New companion website includes links to poems cited in the text and sample student essays. Very accessible for students, with clear, logical analysis, entertaining examples and a glossary with coherent definitions. References throughout are to the new fifth edition of the Norton Anthology-the standard set-tex in most undergraduate poetry courses. The book will include an annotated bibliography.