Description: Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this volume provides a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.
Brief description: John Strachan is Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.
Review Quotes: 'This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of poetry'.Professor Duncan Wu, Georgetown University, US--Duncan Wu