'Living Poetry' demonstrates that poems are vital expressions of how we live,feel and think. Lucidly written and jargon free, it introduces a range of poems from the Elizabethan age to the present day, presenting practical models ofclose reading and a stimulating rationale for the power of poetry to move andexcite us. WILLIAM HUTCHINGS was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally, while continuing to teach Eighteenth-century Literature at the University of Manchester. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of 'Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems '(Carcanet: 1988)', 'the author of'The Poetry of William Cowper '(Croom Helm: 1983) and 'Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students '(Edward Arnold: 1989). INDICE: Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I: ELEMENTS OF POETRY - Form and Technique - PART II: LIVING POETRY - Feeling: The Experience of Emotion in Poems from the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries - Thinking: Varieties of Thought from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries - Doing: Poetry of Action from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries - Living and Dying: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries - PART III: POETRY LIVES - Writing and Reading Poems in the Present - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30171-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés