《如何读诗》是伊格尔顿迄今为止唯一的一本诗论作品,也是继《文学理论导论》之后的第二本教材类著作。围绕“何为诗歌”和“如何读诗”这两个重要问题,他从诗歌本身的“物质性”和“话语性”视角,揭示当代诗歌批评在话语和语言、内容和形式、意义和符号、语境与文本、经验与体验之间的范式危机,探讨诗歌本身的修辞传统、语言形式、物质内涵和阅读方法。该书呈现出伊格尔顿从意识形态批判到审美意识教育的理论转向。 “How to Read Poems” is Eagleton’s only poetry works to date and the second textbook after “Introduction to Literary Theory.” Based on the two important issues of “What is poetry” and “How to read poetry”, from the perspectives of “materiality” and “discourse” of poetry itself, he reveals that contemporary poetry criticism has great influence on discourse and language , Content and form, meaning and symbol, context and text, crisis of paradigm between experience and experience, the rhetorical tradition of poetry itself, language form, material connotation and reading method. The book presents Eagleton’s theoretical shift from ideological critique to aesthetic education.