This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience,makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts.

Series Editor's Introduction Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Peter Verdonk 1. To analyse a poem stylistically: 'To Paint a Water Lily' by Ted Hughes, Mick Short 2. Person to person: Relationships in the poetry of Tony Harrison, Henry G. Widdowson 3. Approaching Hill's 'Of Commerce and Society' through lexis, Michael Toolan 4. The lyrical game: C. Day Lewis' 'Last Words', Walter Nash 5. Between languages: grammar and lexis in Thomas Hardy's 'The Oxen', Ronald Carter The auditory imagination and the music of poetry, Richard D. Cureton 7. Teach yourself 'rhetoric': an analysis of Philip Larkin's 'Church Going', Katie Wales 8. (Non)-communication in the park, Ruth Waterhouse 9. Poetry and public life: a contextualized reading of Seamus Heaney's 'Punishment', Peter Verdonk 10 The difficult style of 'The Waste Land': a literary-pragmatic perspective on modernist poetry, Roger D. Sell 11. The poem and occasion, Balz Engler 12. 'Yo soy la Malinche': Chicana writers and the poetics of ethnonationalism, Mary Louise Pratt Index