An introduction to poetry
by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia.
- 12th ed.
- New York Pearson Longman c2007.
- xlv, 127 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
What this book provides is an introduction to the study of poetry. It tries to help you look at a poem closely, to offer you a wider and more accurate vocabulary with which to express what poems say to you. It will suggest ways to judge for yourself the poems you read. It may set forth some poems new to you.-Pref.