Bøger af Joe Nutt

So much of the teaching in schools of how the English works does not prepare students for the real world. This brilliant book helps schools redress that dramatic imbalance and will help to prepare secondary school children to be successful and effective users of English.

What's the point of poetry? It's a question asked in classrooms all over the world, but it rarely receives a satisfactory answer. Which is why so many people, who read all kinds of books, never read poetry after leaving school.Exploring twenty-two works from poets as varied as William Blake, Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove and Hollie McNish, this book makes the case for what poetry has to offer us, what it can tell us about the things that matter in life. Each poem is discussed with humour and refreshing clarity, using a mixture of anecdote and literary criticism that has been honed over a lifetime of teaching.Poetry can enrich our lives, if we'll let it. The Point of Poetry is the perfect companion for anyone looking to discover how.

John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage. Through detailed analysis of a large number of individual poems, Donne's intellectual vitality and unique poetic voice is entertainingly explored.

Paradise Lost has excited and provoked poets and critics for over 300 years. This introduction provides an accessible routeinto Milton's influential epic poem, guiding students through each of the twelve books by a combination of close textual analysisand summary of key themes and techniques. Without assuming prior knowledge, Nutt helps navigate the book's biblical and classical background and its relationship to seventeenth-century history. Focusing on developing the reading skills needed to approach this important and complex poemindependently, A Guide to Paradise Lost is essential reading for all students of Milton.