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Introducing Week Three's materials

Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese introduces the material for week three of our course, 'How to Read a Poem'.

In this video, Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese introduces the material we will cover this week. We will be focussing on intertextuality: the relationships between poems, and how poets and poems speak to and draw upon one another.

What are you looking forward to learning more about this week? Let us know in the comments below.

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