Living Poetry: Reading Poems from Shakespeare to Don Paterson - Softcover

'Living Poetry is a passionately written and clear introduction that offers a strong overview of English poetry. It is an extremely useful book and guides readers through an impressive range of poems, granting them an array of ideas to be developed in their own work.' - Emma Mason, Reader in English Literature, University of Warwick, UK

'There's nothing currently available that is quite so friendly or so steady in its writing....The writing is clear and precise and uncluttered by jargon. I think many will welcome such a volume and find it very helpful.' - Martin Coyle, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK

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 of close reading and a stimulating rationale for the power of poetry to move and excite us.