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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 | |