Product Description

Key features of this text:

• How to study the text
• Author and historical background
• General and detailed summaries
• Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style
• Glossaries
• Test questions and issues to consider
• Essay writing advice
• Cultural connections
• Literary terms
• Illustrations
• Colour design

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8280 in Books
• Published on: 1997-07-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Synopsis
Key features of this text: *How to study the text *Author and historical background *General and detailed summaries *Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style *Glossaries *Test questions and issues to consider *Essay writing advice *Cultural connections *Literary terms *Illustrations *Colour design

About the Author
Hana Sambrook was educated at the Charles University in Prague and at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked for some years as an editor in Scottish educational publishing, and was later on the staff of the Edinburgh University Library. Now a freelance editor in London, she is the author of several York Notes.

Customer Reviews

Prehaps it was my fault but ...
The analysis of the peoms is not superb. Adequate, but nothing so profound that I'd buy this knowing the actual POEMS are not included, which is what I bought this book for. I figure if they're going to publish a book of analysis, they may as well include the poems (as quotations were from the Duchess of Malfi in the same series).
Personally I found Cambridge's Contexts in Literature 'The Great War in British Literature' much better, providing great amounts of social, political and literary context, as well as a fair amount of novel extracts, poems, letters and essays AND advice on how to approach and write about texts. Seriously, that book teaches the subject better than some teachers I've had. Buy that : )

Intro
I felt like a bit of a twit for buying this when I'm no longer at school; I don't have to study poetry. Although I would encourage people to buy this even if they aren't studying for their GCSEs, it isn't as in-depth as I'd maybe hoped. Although it serves as a good introduction, if you're looking for a bit more in-depth coverage of the poems, I'd recommend looking outside the pages of this manuscript. Good simple explanation of the history of the war, though.

Especially useful for A level pupils
I have used quite a few Yorks Notes books for books i have been studying and i have found each one very useful in writing essays and with helping me to gain a better understanding of the books. This is a useful book as it analyses poems from a wide range of poets and helps make them easier to understand and analyse.