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Classic writings on poetry

A collection of essays written by various authors critically analyzing poetry and poems. Includes a variety of sources ranging from Aristotle's "Poetics" to academic essays by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot
Print Book, English, ©2003
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 538 pages ; 24 cm
9780231123709, 9780231123716, 0231123701, 023112371X
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Introductionix
1. Plato
1(30)
The Republic (excerpt)
3(28)
2. Aristotle
31(32)
Poetics
33(30)
3. Horace
63(12)
"Ars Poetica"
64(11)
4. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
75(4)
Germania (excerpt)
76(3)
5. Longinus (?)
79(28)
"On the Sublime" (excerpt)
80(27)
6. Snorri Sturluson
107(8)
Skaldskaparmal
109(6)
7. Sir Philip Sidney
115(38)
The Defence of Poesy
117(36)
8. John Milton
153(4)
"Of Education" (excerpt)
155(2)
9. John Dryden
157(50)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
159(48)
10. Alexander Pope207(36)
An Essay on Criticism
209(20)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
229(14)
11. Samuel Johnson243(26)
Lives of the Poets (excerpts)
245(1)
"Life of Milton"
245(8)
"Preface to Abraham Cowley"
253(3)
"Life of Dryden
256(7)
"Life of Thomas Gray"
263(6)
12. Thomas Gray269(8)
The Progress of Poesy
271(6)
13. William Wordsworth277(20)
Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads
279(18)
14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge297(8)
Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV
299(6)
15. Francis Jeffrey305(8)
The State of Modern Poetry (excerpt)
307(6)
16. William Hazlitt313(4)
On Poetry in General (excerpt)
315(2)
17. Thomas Love Peacock317(14)
The Four Ages of Poetry (excerpt)
318(13)
18. George Gordon, Lord Byron331(18)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt)
333(16)
19. Percy Bysshe Shelley349(26)
A Defence of Poetry
351(24)
20. William Cullen Bryant375(4)
The Poet
377(2)
21. John Keats379(6)
Poems
381(4)
22. Ralph Waldo Emerson385(20)
The Poet (excerpt)
387(18)
23. Elizabeth Barrett Browning405(18)
Aurora Leigh, Fifth Book (excerpt)
407(16)
24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow423(6)
Poems
424(5)
25. Edgar Allan Poe429(12)
The Philosophy of Composition
431(10)
26. Walt Whitman441(20)
Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition
443(18)
27. Matthew Arnold461(24)
The Study of Poetry
463(22)
28. Emily Dickinson485(8)
Poems
487(6)
29. Rudyard Kipling493(14)
"Proofs of Holy Writ"
495(12)
30. Ezra Pound507(12)
A Retrospect
508(11)
31. T.S. Eliot519(8)
The Possibility of a Poetic Drama
521(6)
32. Laura (Riding) Jackson527
Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality
529