52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life - Softcover

Padel, Ruth

 
9780099429159: 52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099429152 ISBN 13: 9780099429159
Verlag: Vintage, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Ever wondered about how to really interpret poetry? Puzzled about metre, rhyming and stanzas? Presented in language thoroughly accessible for all, poet and writer Ruth Padel demystifies poetic style, structure and meaning in this comprehensive anthology of modern poems

Based on the author’s popular column in The Independent on Sunday, each poem is accompanied by an informative and entertaining explanatory excerpt by Padel. Featuring an assortment of contemporary poets from Carol Ann Duffy to Seamus Heaney, the collection thematically encompasses universal subjects of love, sex, family, death, as well as more obscure matters – for instance, loneliness when listening to the shipping forecast. A poem for each week of the year, Padel’s exploration of the literary form expertly combines technical analysis with imaginative, creative interpretation – sure to make any reader fall in love with the modern verse.

‘She argues away the idea that contemporary poetry is "difficult": all it needs is a little work and the rewards are great’ Sunday Times

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, author of twelve acclaimed poetry collections and prose works including much-loved books on reading contemporary poetry, a travel-memoir on wild tiger conservation, and a study of the influence of Greek myth on rock music. Awards include a British Council Darwin Now Award, a Travel Bursary and Cholmondley Award from The Society of Authors, and First Prize in the National Poetry Competition. She is Professor of Poetry at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099429152
ISBN 13 
9780099429159
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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