The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer - Softcover

Paulin, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057127871X ISBN 13: 9780571278718

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement with forty-seven poems is intended for students and readers of poetry, and seeks to explain how poetry works by bringing into view the hidden order of specific poems.

About this title

Book Description:

Tom Paulin's A Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer is an encounter with some of the most celebrated poems in the English language, by one of the most distinguished poet-critics of our time.

About the Author:

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and, most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is Love's Bonfire (2012). Well known for his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 057127871X
• ISBN 13: 9780571278718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256