The Craft of Poetry

This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers.

Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York, UK and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Henry Staten is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA.