Introduction to Poetry 12e

Kennedy and Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 12th edition is an inspiring, rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analysing, and writing about poetry.This anthology includes more than 500 of the discipline's greatest poems, blending classic works and contemporary selections. Both noted poets themselves, editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with wit and a contagious enthusiasm. Both informative and accessible this is a highly readable book, richly illustrated, and supported by interludes with the poets. This edition features more than 50 new poems, a new masterwork casebook on T. S. Eliots The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock, in addition to extensively revised and expanded chapters on writing.