A review by raloveridge
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton

4.0

This is a really great, flexible text—I'm pairing it with [b:An Exaltation of Forms|661551|An Exaltation of Forms Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art|Kathrine Lore Varnes|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176865829s/661551.jpg|647622] in the fall for a forms-based workshop and I'm glad that it doesn't go terribly into depth. The book does an excellent job of introducing formal ideas and offering the range of possibility they have, without marching students through 40-page chapters of scansion. (Also? A really nice revisiting for me, too!)