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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>ix</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Plato</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(30)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Republic (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>3</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(28)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Aristotle</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>31</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(32)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Poetics</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>33</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(30)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Horace</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>63</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Ars Poetica''</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>64</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Publius Cornelius Tacitus</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>75</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Germania (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>76</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Longinus(?)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>79</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(28)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``On the Sublime'' (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>80</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(27)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Snorri Sturluson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>107</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Skaldskaparmal</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>109</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sir Philip Sidney</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>115</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(38)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Defence of Poesy</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>117</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(36)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>John Milton</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>153</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Of Education'' (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>155</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>John Dryden</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>157</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(50)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>An Essay of Dramatic Poesy</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>159</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(48)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Alexander Pope</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>207</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(36)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>An Essay on Criticism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>209</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>229</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Samuel Johnson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>243</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Lives of the Poets (excerpts)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>245</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(1)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Life of Milton''</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>245</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Preface to Abraham Cowley''</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>253</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Life of Dryden''</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>256</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(7)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Life of Thomas Gray''</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>263</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Thomas Gray</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>269</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Progress of Poesy</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>271</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>William Wordsworth</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>277</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>279</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>297</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>299</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Francis Jeffrey</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>305</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The State of Modern Poetry (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>307</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>William Hazlitt</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>313</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>On Poetry in General (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>315</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Thomas Love Peacock</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>317</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Four Ages of Poetry (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>318</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(13)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>George Gordon, Lord Byron</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>331</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>333</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Percy Bysshe Shelley</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>349</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>A Defence of Poetry</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>351</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(24)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>William Cullen Bryant</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>375</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Poet</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>377</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>John Keats</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>379</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Poems</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>381</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Ralph Waldo Emerson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>385</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Poet (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>387</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>405</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Aurora Leigh, Fifth Book (excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>407</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>423</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Poems</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>424</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(5)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Edgar Allan Poe</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>429</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Philosophy of Composition</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>431</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Walt Whitman</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>441</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition (1855, excerpt)</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>443</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Matthew Arnold</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>461</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(24)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Study of Poetry</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>463</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Emily Dickinson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>485</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Poems</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>487</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Rudyard Kipling</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>493</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>``Proofs of Holy Writ''</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>495</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Ezra Pound</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>507</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>A Retrospect</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>508</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>T. S. Eliot</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>519</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Possibility of a Poetic Drama</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>521</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Laura (Riding) Jackson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>527</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>529</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

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

Classic writings on poetry