Mastering Poetry [Paperback]

Mastering Poetryis a practical book with wide-ranging examples, detailed commentaries and frameworks for analysis. Whether you are studying or reading poetry for pleasure, it will help you to move beyond your first response to an analytical understanding of the relationship between content, language, structure and style.SARA THORNE is an experienced English teacher who has worked in a range of contexts. A former Joint Chief Examiner for AS/A-Level English Language and Literature, she now works as a writer and educational consultant, producing materials for classroom use and working with teachers to encourage active and stimulating approaches to teaching grammar. She is the author of the best-selling Mastering Advanced English Language.

PART 1: APPROACHES TO POETRY
Introduction
What is Poetry?
Distinctive Features of Poetry
Poetic Form
Style
Literary and Rhetorical Devices
How to Read a Poem
PART 2: KEY POETS
English Poets and the English Poetic Tradition
The Beginnings of the English Poetic Tradition
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
Into the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Index.