The Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volumes 1-5

Quickly equips you with the strategies to understand and deepen your engagement with individual poems. Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. The helpful glossary of poetical terms at the end of the book is a real bonus.