{"id":1529,"date":"2018-05-14T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:35:23","slug":"how-to-read-poetry-like-a-professor-a-quippy-and-sonorous-guide-to-verse-by-thomas-c-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/21469083\/book\/154823972\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/006211378X.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse by Thomas C Foster\" width=\"136\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Foster discusses different elements of poetry to raise the awareness of the elements and the appreciation of poetry in the reader.  Foster does a good job of making it interesting and easy to foolow and remember.  I&#8217;ve enjoyed his other books, as his writing style is easy to read and has a lot of good information.  <\/p>\n<p>Foster covers a variety of styles, explaining what elements make it what it is.  He uses limited technical jargon and carefully explains them when he does.  <\/p>\n<p>His writing is easy to read and informative.  I plan to seek out other books of his to read.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Foster discusses different elements of poetry to raise the awareness of the elements and the appreciation of poetry in the reader. Foster does a good job of making it interesting and easy to foolow and remember. I&#8217;ve enjoyed his other books, as his writing style is easy to read and has a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-thomas-c-foster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}