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1 online resource (xiii, 538 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- from The republic / Plato -- Poetics / Aristotle -- Ars poetica / Horace -- from Germania / Publius Cornelius Tacitus -- from On the sublime / Longinus -- Skaldskaparmal / Snorri Sturluson -- Defence of poesy / Sir Philip Sidney -- from Of education / John Milton -- Essay of dramatic poesy / John Dryden -- Essay on criticism. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- from Lives of the poets : Life of Milton. Preface to Abraham Cowley. Life of Dryden. Life of Thomas Gray / Samuel Johnson -- Progress of poesy / Thomas Gray -- Observations prefixed to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- Biographia literaria, Chapter XIV / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- from The state of modern poetry / Francis Jeffrey -- from On poetry in general / William Hazlitt -- from The four ages of poetry / Thomas Love Peacock -- from English bards and Scotch reviewers / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Poet / William Cullen Bryant -- Poems / John Keats -- from The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Aurora Leigh, fifth book / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Poems / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- from Preface to Leaves of grass, first ed. (1855) / Walt Whitman -- Study of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- Poems / Emily Dickinson -- Proofs of Holy writ / Rudyard Kipling -- Retrospect / Ezra Pound -- Possibility of a poetic drama / T.S. Eliot -- Poetic reality and critical unreality / Laura (Riding) Jackson. |
| Summary |
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.?Ralph Waldo Emerson, from ""The Poet""""[The poet] is a seer ... he is individual ... he is complete in himself ... the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus. ""?Walt Whitman, from the preface to Leaves of GrassPoetry has always given rise to interpretation, judgment, and controversy. Indeed, the history of poetry criticism is as rich and varied a journey as the history of poetry itself. But classic writin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Harmon, William, 1938-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Classic writings on poetry. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231123701 (DLC) 2003040917 (OCoLC)51534585 |
| ISBN |
0231503229 (electronic book) |
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9780231503228 (electronic book) |
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9780231123709 |
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0231123701 |
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