How Poems Work: Meanings, techniques and effects in 100 poems from Beowulf to the Iraq War
Matthew Jenkinson; Robert Gullifer
Language: English
Published by John Catt Educational Ltd, 2018
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- Title
- How Poems Work: Meanings, techniques and effects in 100 poems from Beowulf to the Iraq War
- Author
- Matthew Jenkinson; Robert Gullifer
- Publisher
- John Catt Educational Ltd
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1911382942
- ISBN 13
- 9781911382942
Historical backgrounds, meanings, techniques and effects are explained and analysed clearly and logically to help readers understand what poets have been trying to say to us across the centuries. At the same time, major themes that have recurred in poetry are highlighted, so general readers, teachers and students can navigate the poems as they wish: by time period, by technique, or by theme.
This book has been designed so it is useful to anyone interested in learning about or teaching poetry, as well as those revisiting poems and poets they may have already encountered. Those poems and poets have been carefully selected to ensure that How Poems Work covers much of the existing poetic canon while broadening it to include diverse historically important poets who have been previously overlooked, or to include less well-known poems by already canonical poets.
Includes poems that are technically interesting, to allow the kind of analysis expected in classrooms and examinations. appeals to a wide audience across the English-speaking world by including British and American poems alongside those from other cultures.
The publication of How Poems Work has been made possible by the generous support of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford through the New College Ludwig Humanities Research Fund.
'How Poems Work' is an excellent resource. It's packed full of poems, spanning ages, and the analysis for each is clear and perceptive. Robert Gullifer and Matthew Jenkinson have skilfully woven in contextual factors too. It's a must for any poetry-lover's bookshelf.
Sarah Barker, English teacher & AHT.
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About the Author
Robert Gullifer read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before becoming Head of English at King's College School, Wimbledon, Deputy Head Curriculum of the Dragon School, Oxford, Deputy Head of Bristol Grammar School, and then Headmaster of New College School, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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