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Classic Writings on Poetry
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Introduction
1. The Republic (excerpt), by Plato
2. Poetics, by Aristotle
3. Ars Poetica, by Horace
4. Germania (excerpt), by Publius Cornelius Tacitus
5. "On the Sublime" (excerpt), by Longinus(?)
6. Skáldskaparmál, by Snorri Sturluson
7. The Defence of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney
8. "Of Education" (excerpt), by John Milton
9. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, by John Dryden
10. An Essay on Criticism, by Alexander Pope
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
11. Lives of the Poets (excerpts), by Samuel Johnson
"Life of Milton"
"Preface to Abraham Cowley"
"Life of Dryden"
"Life of Thomas Gray"
12. The Progress of Poesy, by Thomas Gray
13. Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth
14. Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15. The State of Modern Poetry (excerpt), by Francis Jeffrey
16. On Poetry in General (excerpt), by William Hazlitt
17. The Four Ages of Poetry (excerpt), by Thomas Love Peacock
18. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt), by George Gordon, Lord Byron
19. A Defence of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. The Poet, by William Cullen Bryant
21. Poems, by John Keats
22. The Poet (excerpt), by Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Aurora Leigh, Fifth Book (excerpt), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
24. Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25. The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe
26. Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition (1855, excerpt), by Walt Whitman
27. The Study of Poetry, by Matthew Arnold
28. Poems, by Emily Dickinson
29. "Proofs of Holy Writ", by Rudyard Kipling
30. A Retrospect, by Ezra Pound
31. The Possibility of a Poetic Drama, by T. S. Eliot
32. Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality, by Laura (Riding) Jackson