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How to read and understand poetry

Spiegelman, Willard (author.). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary: Professor Willard Spiegelman's friendly, yet sophisticated, approach to poetry has been delighting students at Southern Methodist University for almost thirty years. In the 24 lectures presented here, he invites you to share what he has learned throughout his career as a scholar and teacher of literature.

Item details

ISBN: 9781565853058
ISBN: 1565853059
Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 74 pages ; ii, 67 pages ; 22 cm)
sound disc
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2001]

Contents / Notes

General Note:	In two containers (26 cm.).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Course guidebooks include bibliographical references (part 1, pages 72-73; part 2, pages 65-66).
Formatted Contents Note:	part 2, disc 7. Free verse ; The English sonnet I -- disc 8. The English sonnet II ; The enduring sonnet -- disc 9. Poets thinking ; The greater Romantic lyric -- disc 10. Poets thinking : some 20th-century versions ; Portrayals of heroism -- disc 11. Heroism : some 20th-century versions ; Poems talking to (and for) works of art -- disc 12. Echoes in poems ; Farewells and falling leaves.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lecturer: Professor Willard Spiegelman, Southern Methodist University.