Life saving
Subtitle: why we need poetry : introductions to great poets
By: Josephine Hart
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781844088713; 9781844088720
Subjects: Englisch; History and criticism; Lyrik; English poetry; Poetry
Description: This title leaves us an inspiring legacy. It takes us on a journey of the imagination to some of the greatest poems written in the English language and allows us to understand, intuitively and deeply, why poetry matters.
Table of contents: title: Complete introductions. W.H. Auden: truth out of time; title: Elizabeth Bishop: she came, she saw, she changed the view; title: Robert Browning: the company he kept; title: Emily Dickinson: heavenly hurt; title: T.S. Eliot: I gotta use words when I talk to you; title: Robert Frost: the poet of terror; title: John Keats; so kiss'd to sleep; title: Rudyard Kipling: word warrior; title: Philip Larkin: too clever to live?; title: Robert Lowell: my mind's not right; title: John Milton: simply sublime; title: Marianne Moore: poetry... I, too, dislike it; title: Sylvia Plath: the woman is perfected; title: Life saving: Christina Rossetti: upstairs, downstairs; title: Percy Bysshe Shelley: what stopped him?; title: Walt Whitman: defiant passions; title: Oscar Wilde: each man kills the things he loves; title: William Butler Yeats: a pity beyond all telling; title: Poet in the garden. Creating the garden; title: Gardens of the imagination; title: Walk through the woods; title: Paradise lost.