Classic Writings on Poetry / / ed. by William Harmon.

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 c...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Plato
  • 2. Aristotle
  • 3. Horace
  • 4. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
  • 5. Longinus(?)
  • 6. Snorri Sturluson
  • 7. Sir Philip Sidney
  • 8. John Milton
  • 9. John Dryden
  • 10. Alexander Pope
  • 11. Samuel Johnson
  • 12. Thomas Gray
  • 13. William Wordsworth
  • 14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 15. Francis Jeffrey
  • 16. William Hazlitt
  • 17. Thomas Love Peacock
  • 18. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • 19. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 20. William Cullen Bryant
  • 21. John Keats
  • 22. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 23. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • 24. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 25. Edgar Allan Poe
  • 26. Walt Whitman
  • 27. Matthew Arnold
  • 28. Emily Dickinson
  • 29. Rudyard Kipling
  • 30. Ezra Pound
  • 31. T. S. Eliot
  • 32. Laura (Riding) Jackson