Poetry and Poetics

POETRY: POETICS


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Feminist:

Feminist Perspectives on Poetry
Post-colonial:

Post-colonial Perspectives on Poetry

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COURSES

University of East Anglia: Poetics, Writing, Language (Cook)
University of Maine: Introduction to Poetics (Evans)
JOURNALS

Poetry

Poetics Today

Storytelling, Self, Society

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Ancient (Classical):
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BCE - 8 BCE)
'Longinus' (1st Century CE)
Medieval:
Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)

Renaissance:
George Puttenham (c.1529 - 1590)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)

Neo-Classical:
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 - 1711)
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

Romantic:
Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

John Keats (1795 - 1821)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Nineteenth Century:

Twentieth Century:
Analytic:


Anglo-American Formalisms:

Modernism

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

I. A. Richards (1893 - 1979)
F. R. Leavis (1895 - 1978)
Neo-Aristotelianism


New Criticism:

John Crowe Ransom (1888 - 1974)

Allen Tate (1899 - 1979)

Yvor Winters (1900 - 1968)

René Wellek (1903 - 1995)

R. P. Blackmur (1904 - 1965)

Cleanth Brooks (1906 - 1994 )

W. K. Wimsatt (1907 - 1975 )

Monroe Beardsley (1915 - 1985 )

Continental:

Idealism:

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Philip Ellis Wheelwright (1901 - 1970)

Marxism:

Christopher Caudwell (1907 - 1937)

Myth Criticism:

Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:
Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)
Psychoanalysis:

Harold Bloom (1930 - )

(Post-)Structuralisms:

Deconstruction:

Harold Bloom (1930 - )

Deleuzean Theory:


Dialogism:


Foucauldian Theory:


Structuralism:

Russian Formalism:

Michel Riffaterre (1924 - 2006)
Structuralist Marxism:


Structuralist Psychoanalysis:


Pragmatism:

Kenneth Burke (1897 - 1993)
POETS


SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:
Anthologies:
Calderwood, James L., and Harold E. Toliver, eds. Perspectives on Poetry. Oxford: OUP, 1968.
Cook, Jon, ed. Poetry in Theory: an Anthology 1900-2000. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Hosek, Chaviva, and Patricia Parker, eds. Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.
Selected Individual Works:
Beatty, Jerome, and William H. Matchett. "Pattern and Form: Meter." 1965.
Perspectives on Poetry. Ed. James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver. Oxford: OUP, 1968. 135-153.
Brower, Reuben. "The Speaking Voice." 1951.
Perspectives on Poetry. Ed. James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver. Oxford: OUP, 1968. 98-108.
Gross, Harvey. "Prosody as Rhythmic Cognition." 1964.
Perspectives on Poetry. Ed. James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver. Oxford: OUP, 1968. 154-168.
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara. "Poetic Closure." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger, et al. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1974. 964-965. Revised Ed. New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and V. F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. 221.
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara. Poetic Closure: a Study of How Poems End. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1968.
Wright, George T. "The Faces of the Poet." 1960.
Perspectives on Poetry. Ed. James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver. Oxford: OUP, 1968. 109-118.
Semiotics:
Cabot, Michael. Haley The Semiotics of Poetic Metaphor. 1988.
Nimis, Stephen. Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition: the Simile. 1987.
Riffaterre, Michel. The Semiotics of Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.
On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:
Anthologies:

Preminger, Alex, and T. V. F. Brogan, eds. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965. Rev. Ed. 1974. Rpt. as The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 1993.
Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland, eds. The Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: Norton, .
Selected Individual Works:

Attridge, Derek. Poetic Rhythm: an Introduction. Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
Bach, Bert C., William A. Sessions, and William Walling. The Liberating Form: a Handbook-Anthology of English and American Poetry. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.
Corn, Alfred. The Poem's Heartbeat: a Manual of Prosody. Story Line, 1997.
Easthope, Anthony. Poetry as Discourse. London: Methuen, 1983.
Fraistat, Neil. Poems in their Place: the Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1987.
Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. New York: McGaw-Hill, 1979.
Gross, Harvey. Sound and Form in Modern Poetry. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
Harris, Wendell V. "Poetics." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 410-416. 288-291.
Hartman, Charles O. Free Verse: an Essay on Prosody. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1996.
Hobsbawm, Philip. Metre, Rhythm, and Verse Form.
Hollander, John. Rhyme's Reason: a Guide to English Verse. New Haven: Yale UP, .
Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. Harcourt, 1995.
Pinsky, Robert. The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999,
Steele, Timothy. All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: an Explanation of Meter and Versification. Columbus: Ohio UP, 1999.
Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland. The Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: Norton, 2001.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics. Hanover: U of New England P, 1968.
On-Line:
Jahn, Manfred (University of Cologne): A Guide to the Theory of Poetry

Parini, Jay: Why Poetry Matters Chronicle of Higher Education June 27, 2008

Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

Poetry:

Genres:

Free Verse

Lyric Poetry:

Ode

Sonnet

Narrative Poetry:

Epic Poetry

Verse Drama and Dramatic Verse

History of Poetry

Regional Poetries:

English Poetry

Style:

Alliteration

Assonance

Metre (Poetry)

Poetic Diction

Rhyme: Rhyme Scheme