When we read T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as well as Clare’s poetry, I found that listening to an audiobook at the same time as reading made a BIG difference to my comprehension.
Here are some ideas for the future or someone else can consider nominating them, I thought about selecting novels that had poetic prose such as Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson or All The Pretty Horse or Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. I also thought about nominating Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson who was a literary critic and a poet. I thought that this book sounded like something thought-provoking that might interest you, AnotherCat.
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First published in 1930, Seven Types of Ambiguity has long been recognized as a landmark in the history of English literary criticism. Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis.
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An ambiguity is represented as a puzzle to Empson. We have ambiguity when "alternative views might be taken without sheer misreading." Empson reads poetry as an exploration of conflicts within the author.
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