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How to Read a Poem.(Book review)

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Eagleton, Terry. 2006. How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. 192pp.

Terry Eagleton's How to Read a Poem is a "how-to" book with an agenda. Smart, witty, and provocative, How to Read a Poem argues that critics and their students need to redirect their attention away from poetry's content and contexts and back to its formal elements. As a manual for close reading poetry "after theory," it is instructive, though not without some troubling limitations.

Eagleton begins with a disclaimer reminiscent of his After Theory. Theory did not, he asserts, do literature in. On the contrary, many of the preeminent theorists were ...

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