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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: What is Poetry?
• 1 The Basics
• 2 A Definition of Poetry: The Double Pattern
• Part II History: The Renaissance to Postmodernism
• 3 The Renaissance
• 4 The Restoration and the 18th Century
• 5 Romanticism
• 6 Victorian Poetry
• 7 Modernism and After
• Part III: Criticism and Contexts
• 8 New Criticism
• 9 Formalism and Structuralism
• 10 The Role of the Reader and Poststructuralism
• 11 History, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
• 12 Psychoanalysis
• 13 Deconstruction
• 14 Gender
• 15 Nation, Race and Place
• 16 Evaluation
• Epilogue – Why Do We Write and Read Poetry?
• Bibliography
• Index