This title leaves us an inspiring legacy. It takes us on a journey of the imagination to some of the greatest poems written in the English language and allows us to understand, intuitively and deeply, why poetry matters.
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Life saving: why we need poetry : introductions to great poets
2012, Virago
in English
1844088715 9781844088713
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Complete introductions. W.H. Auden: truth out of time
Elizabeth Bishop: she came, she saw, she changed the view
Robert Browning: the company he kept
Emily Dickinson: heavenly hurt
T.S. Eliot: I gotta use words when I talk to you
Robert Frost: the poet of terror
John Keats; so kiss'd to sleep
Rudyard Kipling: word warrior
Philip Larkin: too clever to live?
Robert Lowell: my mind's not right
John Milton: simply sublime
Marianne Moore: poetry... I, too, dislike it
Sylvia Plath: the woman is perfected
Life saving: Christina Rossetti: upstairs, downstairs
Percy Bysshe Shelley: what stopped him?
Walt Whitman: defiant passions
Oscar Wilde: each man kills the things he loves
William Butler Yeats: a pity beyond all telling
Poet in the garden. Creating the garden
Gardens of the imagination
Walk through the woods
Paradise lost.
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