Publisher's Synopsis
In Readings in Poetry, the acclaimed poet, critic and anthologist Thomas Kinsella offers fresh interpretations of 'The Tower' by WB Yeats, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and Shakespeare's sonnets 29 and 30. His close readings are responses of the kind suggested by Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria for the appreciation of a poem. As Kinsella explains in his illuminating introduction, they re-enact the reader's 'primary' response to poetic content, method and structure, facilitating a wider act of 'communication' between reader and poet.
