Includes bibliographical references and index.

To analyse a poem stylistically : To paint a water lily by Ted Hughes / Mick Short -- Person to person : relationships in the poetry of Tony Harrison / H.G. Widdowson -- Approaching Hill's Of commerce and society through lexis / Michael Toolan -- The lyrical game : C. Day Lewis' Last words / Walter Nash -- Between languages : grammar and lexis in Thomas Hardy's The oxen / Ronald Carter -- The auditory imagination and the music of poetry / Richard D. Cureton -- Teach yourself "rhetoric" : an analysis of Philip Larkin's Church going / Katie Wales -- (Non)-communication in the park / Ruth Waterhouse -- Poetry and public life : a contextualized reading of Seamus Heaney's Punishment / Peter Verdonk -- The difficult style of The waste land / Roger D. Sell -- The poem and the occasion / Balz Engler -- "Yo soy la Malinche" : Chicana writers and the poetics of ethnonationalism / Mary Louise Pratt.

All Ages.