How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them

Author:   Dai George
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781399408295


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
Format:   Paperback
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An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara.

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Author:   Dai George
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN:  

9781399408295


ISBN 10:   1399408291
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 How to Think Like Homer 2 How to Think Like Sappho 3 How to Think Like Li Bai 4 How to Think Like Jalal al-Din Rumi 5 How to Think Like Dante Alighieri 6 How to Think Like Geoffrey Chaucer 7 How to Think Like William Shakespeare 8 How to Think Like John Donne 9 How to Think Like John Milton 10 How to Think Like Matsuo Basho 11 How to Think Like William Wordsworth 12 How to Think Like Walt Whitman 13 How to Think Like Emily Dickinson 14 How to Think Like Rabindranath Tagore 15 How to Think Like T. S. Eliot 16 How to Think Like Langston Hughes 17 How to Think Like Pablo Neruda 18 How to Think Like Elizabeth Bishop 19 How to Think Like Aimé Césaire 20 How to Think Like Dylan Thomas 21 How to Think Like Frank O’Hara 22 How to Think Like Sylvia Plath 23 How to Think Like Audre Lorde 24 How to Think Like a Contemporary Poet Acknowledgements Permissions Index

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Poetry haters will fall in love with poetry and the poetry lover will walk away refreshed after reading just a few pages of this authoritative, wide-ranging and witty book that is persistently fascinating and always an easy read! * Daljit Nagra, British poet and author of Indiom * This is a wonderfully lucid and compelling account of how poetry works and why it matters. In 24 exhilarating chapters, George guides us from Homer’s Iliad to the Instapoetry of today. A triumph in both concept and execution, How to Think Like a Poet fizzes almost audibly with intellectual energy and excitement. * Mark Ford, Professor of English Literature, University College London *


Poetry haters will fall in love with poetry and the poetry lover will walk away refreshed after reading just a few pages of this authoritative, wide-ranging and witty book that is persistently fascinating and always an easy read! * Daljit Nagra, British poet and author of Indiom *


Author Information

Dai George is a poet, novelist, critic and academic based in London. His first poetry collection, The Claims Office, was an Evening Standard book of the year and his second, titled Karaoke King, was published by Seren in June 2021. His first novel, The Counterplot, was published as an Audible Original in 2019, and he is currently working on his second. He is the former reviews editor of Poetry London and has taught poetry and creative writing for many years in his role as lecturer at Swansea University and at UCL. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Islands Are But Mountains: New Poetry from the United Kingdom. His criticism and non-fiction features in popular and academic forums including the Guardian, The White Review, and Cambridge Quarterly. Alongside Sarah Howe and Vidyan Ravinthiran, George was a founding editor of the online poetry journal Prac Crit, which drew a large global readership across its five-year lifespan. His first novel, The Counterplot, was published as an Audible Original in 2019, and he is currently working on his second.

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