Kinsella says of it that he is offering close readings of a few notable works in the form of a type of response suggested by Coleridge for the appreciation of a poem. These are primary readings, taking account of textual detail, method and structure. The texts are taken as initiating an act of communication, and the reading is offered as a completion of the act, the poem read "at its own pace". Kinsella takes two sonnets by Shakespeare, "The Tower" by W.B. Yeats, and Eliot's "Prufrock" poem and offers a close reading on these lines, offering an introduction that explains what he is about.
- ISBN10 1857548655
- ISBN13 9781857548655
- Publish Date 23 February 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 September 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 50
- Language English