Discusses the importance of poetry in modern music, its historical significance, and different styles of poetry, and suggests writing and speakin

Contains collections of poems, ballads, limericks, riddles in rhyme, nonsense verse, an index of first lines and titles, and a subject index.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the

Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:. End-of-chapter exercises