Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (Norton Paperback)
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ISBN: 0393009602 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, February 1980
The collaboration of the reader and the poem in modern poetry is examined, especially as it is embodied in the works of Thomas, Yeats, Bogan, Plath, Sexton, Rich, and Roethke
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Diane Wood Middlebrook draws on her experience as both teacher and poet to show us how to read even difficult modern poems with pleasure. She analyzes the work of a number of poets and also discusses some of her own poems, showing how the creative process unfolds.
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