Poetry: The Ultimate Guide - Softcover

Bradford, R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403994617 ISBN 13: 9781403994615

Publisher: Palgrave, 2010

Synopsis

Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day and surveys the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse. It tackles the important issues of gender, race and nationality and concludes with a lengthy account of how to recognise good poetry.

This engaging and readable book is accessible to all readers, from those who simply enjoy poetry through university first years to graduate students. Poetry: The Ultimate Guide provides the technical and critical tools you need to approach and evaluate poetry, and to articulate your own views.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over thirty acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year; the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe; a life of Kingsley Amis; and a biography of Kingsley’s son, Martin. He has written for the Spectator and the Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series Writers in their Own Words. His The Importance of Elsewhere, on Larkin the photographer, inspired a BBC TV programme and, most recently, his biography Orwell was given five stars as an ‘excellent new biography’ by The Telegraph.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403994617
• ISBN 13: 9781403994615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284