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To the Reader | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Publisher's Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction: listening to poetry | |
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Blake: 'London' | |
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Wordsworth: 'Westminster Bridge' | |
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Eliot: The Waste Land | |
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Shakespeare and song | |
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Five ideas for reading | |
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Dramatic voice | |
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Tone | |
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Ambiguity | |
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How rhythm affects sense | |
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Imagery | |
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Making poetry: making meanings | |
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Poetry and the social world | |
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Medieval and Renaissance poetry | |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
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Wyatt: 'They fle from me' | |
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Poetry in the Age of Reason | |
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Dryden: Absolom and Achitophel | |
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Pope: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | |
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Gray: 'On Lord Holland's Seat near Margate, Kent' | |
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Johnson: 'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' | |
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Towards Romantic poetry | |
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Shelley: The Triumph of Life | |
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Public and private poetry | |
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Two Victorians | |
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Rossetti: 'Remember' | |
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Tennyson: 'Tithonus' | |
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Twentieth-century poetry: four examples | |
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Hardy: 'After a Journey' | |
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Yeats: 'Easter 1916' | |
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Auden: 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats' | |
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Lowell: 'Waking Early Sunday Morning' | |
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Why is poetry difficult? | |
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Three seventeenth-century writers | |
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Middleton: The Revenger's Tragedy | |
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Shakespeare: Macbeth | |
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Donne: 'A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucie's Day' | |
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Three Romantics | |
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Wordsworth: 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' | |
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Coleridge: 'Kubla Khan' | |
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Keats: The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream | |
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Baudelaire: 'A une passante' | |
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'Poetry is the subject of the poem' | |
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Poetry and enchantment | |
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Carroll: 'Jabberwocky' | |
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Modernism | |
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Mallarme: 'Ses purs ongles' | |
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Yeats: 'Sailing to Byzantium' | |
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Stevens: 'The Man with the Blue Guitar' | |
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Stevens: 'Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction' | |
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Mallarme: 'A la nue accablante tu' | |
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Modernism and postmodernism in poetry | |
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Poetry and translation | |
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Petrarch in English | |
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Milton: Lycidas | |
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Modern translation: Ezra Pound | |
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Heaney: Beowulf | |
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Translation as critique | |
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Translation and verse styles | |
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Reading modern poetry | |
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Postcolonial poetry | |
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Women's poetry | |
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Postcolonial and 'Queer' poetry | |
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Poetry and trauma | |
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Technical terms and phrases | |
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Two passages | |
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Rhythm | |
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Rhyme | |
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Metaphor, symbolism and allegory | |
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Some final definitions | |
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Further reading | |
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Bibliography | |
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Questions for further study | |
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Poetry examples | |
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Index | |