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In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, William Cowper,William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara,Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark -are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language. The discussionsprovide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporaryschools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique ofthose schools.