Classic Writings on PoetryWilliam Harmon Columbia University Press, 13.04.2005 - 560 Seiten 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" |
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... criticism. 2. Poetics. I. Harmon, William, 1938– PN1016.C53 2003 809.1—dc21 2003040917. A. Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America c10987654321 contents ...
... Criticism 209 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 229 11. Samuel Johnson 243 Lives of the Poets (excerpts) 245 “Life of Milton” 245 “Preface to Abraham Cowley” 253 “Life of Dryden 256 “Life of Thomas Gray” 263 12. Thomas Gray 269 The Progress of ...
... criticism. Early in these early days, a poet wrote something like Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire . . . , at which any normal, intelligent reader might bridle. One would have to note ...
... criticism becomes interesting and valuable and vexed. Poetry resists absolute definitions. Something that seems inseparable from and vital to poetry in one culture will be unintelligible or ridiculous in another. Rhyme, for example, has ...
... criticism of literature is itself a species of literature, complications become exponential and controversy begins almost immediately. Among many other causes of conflict, poets and the critics of poetry disagree about diction and ...
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3 Ars Poetica by Horace | 63 |
4 Germania excerpt by Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 75 |
5 On the Sublime excerpt by Longinus? | 79 |
6 Skáldskaparmál by Snorri Sturluson | 107 |
7 The Defence of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney | 115 |
8 Of Education excerpt by John Milton | 153 |
18 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers excerpt by George Gordon Lord Byron | 331 |
19 A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 349 |
20 The Poet by William Cullen Bryant | 375 |
21 Poems by John Keats | 379 |
22 The Poet excerpt by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 385 |
23 Aurora Leigh Fifth Book excerpt by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 405 |
24 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 423 |
25 The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe | 429 |
10 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | 207 |
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope | 229 |
11 Lives of the Poets excerpts by Samuel Johnson | 243 |
12 The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray | 269 |
13 Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth | 277 |
14 Biographia Literaria Chapter XIV by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 297 |
15 The State of Modern Poetry excerpt by Francis Jeffrey | 305 |
16 On Poetry in General excerpt by William Hazlitt | 313 |
17 The Four Ages of Poetry excerpt by Thomas Love Peacock | 317 |
26 Preface to Leaves of Grass first edition 1855 excerpt by Walt Whitman | 443 |
27 The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold | 461 |
28 Poems by Emily Dickinson | 485 |
29 Proofs of Holy Writ by Rudyard Kipling | 493 |
30 A Retrospect by Ezra Pound | 507 |
31 The Possibility of a Poetic Drama by T S Eliot | 519 |
32 Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality by Laura Riding Jackson
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