Language of Poetry

Name: Language of Poetry
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on poetry. It combines activities with texts, commentaries and further activity suggestions. > \nThe Language of Poetry:\n* develops the student's ability to read and evaluate poetic texts of many kinds\n* includes activities, commentaries and extensions to each extract\n* covers a variety of poetic language, ranging from songs, advertisements and spoken language to the more traditional forms of the sonnet, ode and free verse\n* includes poetry from Philip Larkin, Maya Angelou, Dylan Thomas and Tony Harrison. > Unit one: The look Unit two: The sound Unit three: The movement Unit four: The appeal Unit five: The places Unit six: The genders Unit seven: The images Unit eight: That was then, this is now > John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has been at the forefront of work on the language and literat.