目录
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE The significance of poetry
1 To begin with: common features and uncouth rhymes
2 Significance beyond plain speaking
3 Procedures for interpretation: reference and representation
4 Dissociation from context: the poem on the page
5 Verbal patterning and the grammar of representation
6 Time and place in a different dimension
7 Other patterns, alternative realities
8 Parallel lines and parallel texts
9 Intertextual associations
10 Aesthetic effects and relative values
11 So the meaning escapes.
12 In summary
PART TWO The teaching of poetry
1 The point of poetry
2 Educational relevance; recreation and language awareness
3 Pedagogic approaches; against exegesis
4 Composing poetic text:line assembly
5 Completing poetic text: verse blanks
6 Intertextual comparison and the use of variants
7 Comparing poems with prose description
8 Deriving poems from prose description
9 Deriving and comparing poetic variants
10 Progressive derivation: composing interim versions
11 Using prose paraphrases
12 Comparing derived and authorized versions
13 Comparing different modes of poetic writing
14 In conclusion
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Index of poets