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Preface | |
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Introduction : poets on poetics | |
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To my muse, upon her return | |
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from Book two, Epistle III, to the Pisos | |
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Madly singing in the mountains | |
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No room for grief | |
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from Astrophil and Stella | |
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Invocation to the Faerie Queene | |
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from The marriage of heaven and hell | |
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The author to her book | |
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On imagination | |
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from Preface to Kubla Khan | |
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from The letters | |
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from The poet | |
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from Letters to a young poet | |
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Tradition and the individual talent | |
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from Play and theory of Duende | |
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from Fending off the Duende | |
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from Goatfoot, milktongue, twinbird : infantile origins of poetic form | |
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from Letter to Norman Holmes Pearson | |
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from Coming across : establishing the intent of a poem | |
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from Closing the door | |
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from Stealing the language | |
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from Dancing at the devil's party | |
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from Cante Moro | |
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Digging | |
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from The spiral of memory | |
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from The triggering town | |
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"When I stand around among poets ..." | |
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The poet and the world, Nobel lecture, 1996 | |
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from Towards the splendid city, Nobel lecture, 1971 | |
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Diseuse | |
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Poetry as a vessel of remembrance | |
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from Prologue to the Aetia | |
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from Book two, Troilus and Criseyde | |
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from Kyorai's conversations with Basho | |
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A fit for rhyme against rhyme | |
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from A defense of rhyme | |
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from Introduction to Paradise lost | |
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The apology | |
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from An essay on criticism | |
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from Preface to lyrical ballads | |
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from Biographia Literaria | |
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from The philosophy of composition | |
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from Preface to poems | |
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from Remarks on poetry | |
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The poem as a field of action | |
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A few don'ts by an Imagiste | |
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from Feeling and precision | |
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from A general introduction for my work | |
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from To Harriet Monroe, editor of poetry : a magazine of verse | |
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from The noble rider and the sound of words | |
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from Conversations on the craft of poetry with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren | |
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Housekeeping cages | |
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from Table talk, a Paris review interview with Chris Busa | |
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from Hamlet and his problems | |
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from Writing | |
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from The virgin & the dynamo | |
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from The poet & the city | |
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On footnotes (to John Frederick Nims) | |
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from The Negro artist and the racial mountain | |
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Personism : a manifesto | |
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from Postscript II : notes on certain unwritten poems | |
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from The pleasures of formal poetry | |
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from Listening and making | |
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"I will put chaos into fourteen lines" | |
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from How to write like somebody else | |
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from Some remarks on rhythm | |
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from Projective verse | |
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from Ideas on the meaning of form | |
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from The prose poem : an alternative to verse | |
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from An interview with Daniel Kane | |
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from Of formal, free, and fractal verse : singing the body electric | |
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from Moving means, meaning moves | |
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from More WordWorks | |
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from A conversation with Harryette Mullen | |
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from The rejection of closure | |
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from Of the sonnet and paradoxical beauties : an interview with Joyce Wilson | |
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from Control is the mainspring | |
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from Owning the masters | |
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from How pastoral : a manifesto | |
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from Patriarchal poetry | |
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from Coherent decentering : towards a new model of the poetic self | |
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from Egil's saga | |
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Sonnet LV | |
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from The four ages of poetry | |
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from A defence of poetry | |
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The dead man asks for a song | |
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from Preface to Leaves of grass 1855 | |
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from Song of myself, stanza 2 | |
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from The study of poetry | |
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from To whom is the poet responsible? | |
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from Letters to a young poet | |
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from The obscurity of the poet | |
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from The difficulty of difficult poetry | |
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from Introduction to the best American poetry, 1990 | |
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from The rare union : poetry and science | |
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from Elegy of midnight | |
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from Elegy of the trade winds | |
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from "What would we create?" | |
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from Notebook of a return to the native land | |
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from Poetry is not a luxury | |
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from Horses with wings | |
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from The future of black poetry | |
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Against national poetry month as such | |
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from And may he be bilingual | |
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from Interview with Marie Jordan | |
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from Lights in the windows | |
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from Why poetry today? | |
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from The Antilles : fragments of epic memory : Nobel Prize lecture, 1992 | |