--- product_id: 63225243 title: "How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse" price: "145.91 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/63225243-how-to-read-poetry-like-a-professor-a-quippy-sonorous store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse **Price:** 145.91 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse - **How much does it cost?** 145.91 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/63225243-how-to-read-poetry-like-a-professor-a-quippy-sonorous) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential guide to poetry that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree―a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history―and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, this powerful form of literary analysis is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge. Poetry demands more from readers―intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually―than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But understanding poetry doesn’t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.E. Cummings, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers: How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning. The different technical elements of poetry such as meter, diction, rhyme, line structures, length, order, regularity, and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries. How to listen for a poem’s secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up. How to hear the music in poems―and the poetry in songs! With How to Read Poetry Like a Professor , readers can rediscover how to read poems and reap its many rewards. Review: Very academic and a bit dry for me - This is a really good book - if you are in the right mood for it. It is full of interesting facts and information, however I found it really hard to get my mind into the right gear to absorb the information as it is also very academic. If you like that kind of writing then this will be right up your street and probably tick a few boxes! Review: Impossible to give an unbiased view - This is now the third book that I have read by Foster. Each time has been the same - un unstoppable rush to the next chapter, followed by a dismay that all things must end. I have, it seems, gone through life blithely oblivious to everything that has been around me. I have read thousands of books since those days when my neighbour brought some books back from the newly opened library and gave them to me to read and, in so doing, changed my life. A neighbour whose value I was also blithely oblivious to. Since reading Foster, I have been less blithe, less oblivious (and, to put this into perspective, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold...”) and the experience is...well...discombobulating. Offsetting the awe, the energy, the wonderment and bewilderment is an -almost- overwhelming sense of regret that I Didn’t Pay Attention To Any Of This Before. The narrative that my mind has constructed over recent months or years is that I thought I was living my life, but as the years go by, I realise that I have only ever lived the smallest part of it. Foster’s books have fed that perception by essentially saying, “Look again. See what you have missed. Now look again.” As for the tone and the manner in which he writes, I am sure that he will have his detractors. Personally, I find it comforting, supportive, collegial. He establishes a relationship with his readers - he’s patient, self-deprecating, insightful and never imposing. What you are left with is a clear understanding of just how deep his passion for the written word is and how consummate he is in his role as an educator. If you’re like me and have almost-lived your life, and you need a gentle doctor to lift the gauzes from your bruised eyes while they show you the world as it is to most likely everyone else, do like I did - buy all of Thomas C. Foster’s books and try to stop yourself from scarfing them down. Where possible, I limited myself to no more than a couple of chapters a day. And that has made all the difference. ## Features - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 165,686 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 213 in History of Books 243 in American Poetry (Books) 247 in Reading Skills Reference | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 386 Reviews | ## Images ![How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HnN7YjBXL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very academic and a bit dry for me *by M***E on 24 April 2026* This is a really good book - if you are in the right mood for it. It is full of interesting facts and information, however I found it really hard to get my mind into the right gear to absorb the information as it is also very academic. If you like that kind of writing then this will be right up your street and probably tick a few boxes! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impossible to give an unbiased view *by T***P on 8 December 2020* This is now the third book that I have read by Foster. Each time has been the same - un unstoppable rush to the next chapter, followed by a dismay that all things must end. I have, it seems, gone through life blithely oblivious to everything that has been around me. I have read thousands of books since those days when my neighbour brought some books back from the newly opened library and gave them to me to read and, in so doing, changed my life. A neighbour whose value I was also blithely oblivious to. Since reading Foster, I have been less blithe, less oblivious (and, to put this into perspective, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold...”) and the experience is...well...discombobulating. Offsetting the awe, the energy, the wonderment and bewilderment is an -almost- overwhelming sense of regret that I Didn’t Pay Attention To Any Of This Before. The narrative that my mind has constructed over recent months or years is that I thought I was living my life, but as the years go by, I realise that I have only ever lived the smallest part of it. Foster’s books have fed that perception by essentially saying, “Look again. See what you have missed. Now look again.” As for the tone and the manner in which he writes, I am sure that he will have his detractors. Personally, I find it comforting, supportive, collegial. He establishes a relationship with his readers - he’s patient, self-deprecating, insightful and never imposing. What you are left with is a clear understanding of just how deep his passion for the written word is and how consummate he is in his role as an educator. If you’re like me and have almost-lived your life, and you need a gentle doctor to lift the gauzes from your bruised eyes while they show you the world as it is to most likely everyone else, do like I did - buy all of Thomas C. Foster’s books and try to stop yourself from scarfing them down. Where possible, I limited myself to no more than a couple of chapters a day. And that has made all the difference. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ excellent *by M***S on 22 September 2023* This was a really interesting book illuminating what is and isn’t poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about all the poets and how they work their craft. Like the author I can’t quite put my finger on it but I am hooked. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/63225243-how-to-read-poetry-like-a-professor-a-quippy-sonorous](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/63225243-how-to-read-poetry-like-a-professor-a-quippy-sonorous) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-05*