Article: `An Introduction to English Poetry' by James Fenton; Farrar Straus & Giroux ($18).

Byline: Chauncey Mabe

By giving his book such a title as ``An Introduction to English Poetry,'' James Fenton might be suspected of having written a thick textbook of the kind that teaches young people to hate poetry _ and indeed, literature of all varieties _ for the remainder of their lives.

In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. For one thing, at 137 pages, it's almost short enough to run as an essay in The New York Review of Books, where Fenton is a frequent contributor, and certainly short enough to read in a single sitting, provided you are sufficiently perspicacious to digest its content all at once.

In which case, you ...

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