Poetic Form: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Paperback)) - Softcover

Hurley, Michael D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521774993 ISBN 13: 9780521774994

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This work provides lucid, elegant and original analyses of poetic form and its workings in a wide range of poems.

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About the Authors

Michael D. Hurley combines a wide and interdisciplinary record of publishing in poetry and poetics with considerable experience as a teacher of close reading and practical criticism at Cambridge. His work is marked by an ambition to explore the relationship between what literature makes us feel and how it makes us think. His recent book on G. K. Chesterton was praised by one critic for being 'striking in the precision of its formal analysis and the elegance of its prose'.

Michael O'Neill is a well-known critic of poetry whose writings include monographs on Shelley (1989), Romanticism and the self-conscious poem (1997) and the twentieth- and twenty-first century literary legacies of Romantic poetry (2007). He edited the Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010) and a much-praised anthology of Romantic poetry with detailed comments on poetic form (2008). He has published two collections of poems and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His work has been celebrated by many critics for its sensitivity to poetry and its ability to find an answerable language for poetic effects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521774993
• ISBN 13: 9780521774994
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258