Furniss, T: Reading Poetry

"The "essential introduction to the skills needed to read - and really enjoy - poetry.

• Includes almost 100 poems or substantial passages from poems, with full guides to further reading to help students with their study


• Exercises at the end of each chapter will help students practise and develop their skills in reading poetry

Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the Universityof Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he has spent nearly twenty years teaching poetry, literary theory and Romanticism. Michael Bath taught English literature for more than 30 years at the University of Strathclyde, where his research interests centred on relations between literature and the visual arts, emblems and iconology.