Living Poetry

WILLIAM HUTCHINGS was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally, while continuing to teach Eighteenth-century Literature at the University of Manchester. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems (Carcanet: 1988), the author ofThe Poetry of William Cowper (Croom Helm: 1983) and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students (Edward Arnold: 1989).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: ELEMENTS OF POETRYForm and TechniquePART II: LIVING POETRYFeeling: The Experience of Emotion in Poems from the Sixteenth to Twentieth CenturiesThinking: Varieties of Thought from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth CenturiesDoing: Poetry of Action from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth CenturiesLiving and Dying: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth CenturiesPART III: POETRY LIVESWriting and Reading Poems in the PresentIndex.

'Living Poetry is a passionately written and clear introduction that offers a strong overview of English poetry. It is an extremely useful book and guides readers through an impressive range of poems, granting them an array of ideas to be developed in their own work.' - Emma Mason, Reader in English Literature, University of Warwick, UK 'There's nothing currently available that is quite so friendly or so steady in its writing...The writing is clear and precise and uncluttered by jargon. I think many will welcome such a volume and find it very helpful.' - Martin Coyle, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK