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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Harmon |
ISBN: | 0231123701 9780231123709 023112371X 9780231123716 |
OCLC Number: | 51534585 |
Description: | xiii, 538 pages ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | edited by William Harmon. |
Abstract:
The first major anthology of criticism devoted exclusively to poetry. Spanning thousands of years and including some of the most influential critical essays ever written, this is a collection of influential writings on poetry ranging from Aristotle to Laura (Riding) Jackson.
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Harmon presents a fine collection in the study of poetics-i.e., the study of what poetry is, and should be-from classical antiquity into the early 20th century... Recommended. Choice
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