AUTHOR-APPROVED BLURB AUTHORS SEEKING 2 FURTHER ENDORSEMENTS Second Edition [Flash] 'This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of poetry'. Professor Duncan Wu, Georgetown University, US 'An essential tool for students and prospective writers of poetry'. Professor Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy The only introductory book to cover both the study and the writing of poetry Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide 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. The book begins with a brief history of English verse and ends with an extensive glossary of poetical terms. New for this edition: * A chapter on Writing Poetry including 'Poets on Poetry' and 'Forty practical tips' on writing your own poetry * Practical exercises at the end of each chapter based on poems such as Carol Ann Duffy's 'Mrs Sisyphus', 'Wish You Were Here' by Colette Bryce, and Thomas Hardy's 'Thoughts of Phena at News of her Death' * New readings of individual poems including Gray's 'Elegy', Milton's Paradise Lost, T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land', and Adrienne Rich's 'Transcendental Etude' * A guide to Further Reading John Strachan is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sunderland. Richard Terry is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University.