Teaching Poetry and Poetics

​Richard Stacey is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written pieces on Shakespeare, oath-taking and the Early Modern North for journals such as Shakespeare Survey and Studies in Philology.

• 1 Introduction – Richard Stacey.- Part I: Close Reading.- 2 From School-Room to Seminar: Understanding a Poem – Richard Stacey.- 3 Attuning Ourselves to Tunes: Lessons in Prosody – David Nowell Smith.- 4 Rhyme with Good Reason: Teaching the Poetics of Close Reading and Rhyme – JuEunhae Knox.- 5 Decisions, Decisions, Dictionaries: Teaching Difficult Poetry – Mia Gaudern.- 6 ‘The river still ribboning’: Participles, Syntax and Creative Pedagogy – Dai George.- Part II: Conceptual Reading.- 7 Poetic Invitations – Denis Flannery.- 8 Landmark Poetics: Textures and Texts – Deirdre Osborne.- 9 Communal Close Reading: Interactive Methods and Practices – Lyndsay Miller.- Part III: Contextual Reading.- 10 Reading Early Modern Sonnets in the Queer Classroom – Kit Hevan.- 11 Narrowing Focus: Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry – Cassie Ulph.- 12 The Aesthetics of Abolition: Reading the Anti-Slavery Dramatic Monologue – Muireann O’Cinneide.- Part IV: Critical Reading.- 13 Poetic Necessity: Sociological Poetry and Pedagogy – Phil Crockett Thomas.- 14 Afterword – Sandeep Parmar.