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If you have studied a poet and enjoyed his or her work, then writing an essay about the author should be enjoyable. It is, after all, a chance for you to convey in your own words what you have found interesting and attractive in the poetry. The fact is, however, that most people find essay-writing extremely hard work, and most people are disappointed with their essays, often feeling that they have not quite managed to say what they wanted to say. Obviously I cannot hope to solve in this one chapter all the problems associated with writing essays. Writing is taxing, and time and time again the words just will not do what you want them to do. What I can offer, however, are some ideas that can help you get started, some guidance about what you are trying to do in an essay, and some tips about how to organise and structure your essays.
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Yeats, W.B., Browning, R. (1988). Essay-writing. In: How to Study a Poet. How to Study Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09536-0_6
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