Notes on Poetry: Course Material in Poetry for Students of English and American Literature

Notes on Poetry was put together as a teaching aid meant for my second and third year students studying English and American literature. It consists of ten chapters each built on one of my favorite poems utilized here as sample texts for analysis. My objective was to illustrate different ways of approaching and analyzing poetic texts, and to offer students the necessary theoretical knowledge and terminology to do so. The most important goal, however, is to encourage students to read poetry and also to try their hand at writing analytic studies.