Classic writings on poetry (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction -- from The republic / Plato -- Poetics / Aristotle -- Ars poetica / Horace -- from Germania / Publius Cornelius Tacitus -- from On the sublime / Longinus -- Skaldskaparmal / Snorri Sturluson -- Defence of poesy / Sir Philip Sidney -- from Of education / John Milton -- Essay of dramatic poesy / John Dryden -- Essay on criticism. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- from Lives of the poets : Life of Milton. Preface to Abraham Cowley. Life of Dryden. Life of Thomas Gray / Samuel Johnson -- Progress of poesy / Thomas Gray -- Observations prefixed to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- Biographia literaria, Chapter XIV / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- from The state of modern poetry / Francis Jeffrey -- from On poetry in general / William Hazlitt -- from The four ages of poetry / Thomas Love Peacock -- from English bards and Scotch reviewers / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Poet / William Cullen Bryant -- Poems / John Keats -- from The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Aurora Leigh, fifth book / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Poems / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- from Preface to Leaves of grass, first ed. (1855) / Walt Whitman -- Study of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- Poems / Emily Dickinson -- Proofs of Holy writ / Rudyard Kipling -- Retrospect / Ezra Pound -- Possibility of a poetic drama / T.S. Eliot -- Poetic reality and critical unreality / Laura (Riding) Jackson