"At once erudite and colloquial" (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don't Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another-and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish-and distinguish among-individual poems.
A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.
| ISBN: | 9781541603615 |
| Publication date: | 11th May 2023 |
| Author: | Stephanie Burt |
| Publisher: | Basic Books an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000 |
"At once erudite and colloquial" (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry In Don't Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another-and how they can speak to our lives.
Don't Read Poetry features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 2000
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Don't Read Poetry was written by Stephanie Burt and published by Basic Books an imprint of Little, Brown
Don't Read Poetry has 320 pages
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. In Stock.