This book takes a particular perspective on the nature of poetry andfollows this through to proposals for teaching. It focuses attentionon how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions forindividual interpretation and the representation of reality in waysother than those which are established by normal social convention.This view of poetry, it is argued, leads to a recognition of itsessential role in education, and provides a set of principles for anapproach to teaching it which integrates the study of language andliterature.
