Classic Writings on Poetry

Name: Classic Writings on Poetry
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ISBN: 9780231123716

ISBN-10: 023112371X

ISBN-13: 9780231123716

Edition: 2005

Authors: William Harmon, William Harmon

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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 Grass Poetry 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 writings such as Emerson's essay "The Poet" and Whitman's preface to Leaves of Grass serve as more than a critical "call and response": the…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction



The Republic (excerpt)




Poetics




Ars Poetica




Germania (excerpt)




"On the Sublime" (excerpt)




Skaldskaparmal




The Defence of Poesy




"Of Education" (excerpt)




An Essay of Dramatic Poesy




An Essay on Criticism




Lives of the Poets (excerpts)



"Life of Milton"


"Preface to Abraham Cowley"


"Life of Dryden"


"Life of Thomas Gray"



The Progress of Poesy




Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads




Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV




The State of Modern Poetry (excerpt)




On Poetry in General (excerpt)




The Four Ages of Poetry (excerpt)




English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt)




A Defence of Poetry




The Poet




Poems




The Poet (excerpt)




Aurora Leigh, Fifth Book (excerpt)




Poems




The Philosophy of Composition




Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition (1855, excerpt)




The Study of Poetry




Poems




"Proofs of Holy Writ"




A Retrospect




The Possibility of a Poetic Drama




Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality