
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
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No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree?a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history?and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge.
Poetry demands more from readers?intellectually, emotion-ally, and spiritually?than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn't need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more.
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Thomas C. Foster is the author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, How to Write Like a Writer, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor, and other works. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry as well as creative writing and freelance writing. He is also the author of several books on twentieth-century British and Irish literature and poetry.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- What Is Poetry?
- Introduction: A (Slightly) Alien Life-Form
- 1. The Sounds of Sense
- 2. Sounds Beyond Sense
- Interlude: What the Heck Is It?
- How Is Poetry?
- 3. Redeeming the Time
- 4. The Rhythm(s) of the Saints
- 5. The Long (or Short) Gray Line
- 6. Our Word Is Our Bond
- 7. Rhyme Thyme
- 8. Look Who's Talking
- 9. If It's Square, It's a Sonnet
- 10. A Haiku, a Rondeau, and a Villanelle Walk into a Bar
- 11. Shapes of Things to Come
- Interlude: Is Verse Ever Really Free?
- 12. Images, Symbols, and Their Friends
- 13. Right Out Loud
- 14. Bards and Beatles
- Why Is Poetry?
- 15. Wanted: A Few Good Martians
- Conclusion: Supreme Fictions
- Acknowledgments
- Poems Cited
- Critical Works for Reference
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Thomas C. Foster
- Copyright
- Permissions
- About the Publisher
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