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  • © 1990

How to Study Modern Poetry

Authors:

  1. Tony Curtis
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Part of the book series: Macmillan Study Skills (MASTSK)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Shapes and Puzzles

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Making of a Poem

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 29-58

  4. The 1940s and 1950s

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 59-90

  5. The 1960s

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 91-116

  6. The 1970s

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 117-136

  7. The 1980s

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 137-158

  8. Writing an analysis

    • Tony Curtis
    Pages 159-165

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 165-172
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About this book

In this book Tony Curtis, himself an award-winning poet, offers clear and positive help to students who are faced by a modern poem which puzzles and frightens them. How do we proceed to construct a critical response to a poem which may not rhyme, may not have metrical regularity, may not be written in verses or even have conventional punctuation? This book deals imaginatively and originally with such problems. It also provides helpful critical readings of many of the major poems of the post-war years, by poets such as Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, R S Thomas, Dannie Abse and William Carlos Williams.
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