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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

COURSES

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

JOURNALS

• Poetry

• Poetics Today

• Storytelling, Self, Society

PERSONS

• 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)

• Nineteenth Century:
  • 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)

  • Victorian:

• Twentieth Century:

  • Anglo-American Modernism, Myth Criticism and New Criticism:

    • 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)

    • Myth Criticism:

    • 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)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

• Anthologies:
  • General:
    • 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.
      Kwasny, Melissa.  Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry, 1800-1950.  Middleton, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2004.
  • Genres:
    • Lyric Poetry:
      • Dramatic Monologue:
      • Elegy:
      • Ode:
      • Sonnet:
    • Narrative Poetry:
      • Ballad:
      • Epic Poetry:
  • Style, Aspects of:
    • Diction:
    • Metre:
    • Rhyme:
    • Sound Devices:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • General:
    • Brower, Reuben.  "The Speaking Voice."  1951.
      • Perspectives on Poetry.  Ed. James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver.  Oxford: OUP, 1968.  98-108.
    • 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.
    • Riffaterre, Michel.  The Semiotics of Poetry.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.
    • 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.
  • Genres:
    • Lyric Poetry:
      • Dramatic Monologue:
        • Byron, Glennis.  Dramatic Monologue.  London: Routledge, 2003.
        • Howe, Elisabeth A.  The Dramatic Monologue.  Boston: Twayne, 1996.
      • Elegy:
      • Ode:
      • Sonnet:
    • Narrative Poetry:
      • Ballad:
      • Epic Poetry:
        • Nimis, Stephen.  Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition: the Simile.  1987.
  • Style, Aspects of:
    • Diction:
      • Cabot, Michael.  Haley The Semiotics of Poetic Metaphor.  1988.
    • Metre:
      • 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.
      • Gross, Harvey.  "Prosody as Rhythmic Cognition."  1964.
        • Perspectives on Poetry.  Ed. James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver.  Oxford: OUP, 1968.  154-168.
    • Rhyme:
    • Sound Devices:

• General:
  •  
• Genres:
  • Lyric Poetry:
    • Dramatic Monologue:
    • Elegy:
    • Ode:
    • Sonnet:
  • Narrative Poetry:
    • Ballad:
    • Epic Poetry:
• Style, Aspects of:
  • Diction:
  • Metre:
  • Rhyme:
  • Sound Devices:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

• Anthologies:

  • General:
    • 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, 2001.
  • Genres:
    • Lyric Poetry:
      • Dramatic Monologue:
      • Elegy:
      • Ode:
      • Sonnet:
    • Narrative Poetry:
      • Ballad:
      • Epic Poetry:
  • Style, Aspects of:
    • Diction:
    • Metre:
    • Rhyme:
    • Sound Devices:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Poetics."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  410-416.  288-291.
    • Oliver, Mary.  A Poetry Handbook.  Harcourt, 1995.
    • Turco, Lewis.  The Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics.  Hanover: U of New England P, 1968.
  • Genres:
    • Lyric Poetry:
      • Dramatic Monologue:
      • Elegy:
      • Ode:
      • Sonnet:
    • Narrative Poetry:
      • Ballad:
      • Epic Poetry:
  • Style, Aspects of:
    • Diction:
    • Metre:
      • Attridge, Derek.  Poetic Rhythm: an Introduction.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
      • Corn, Alfred.  The Poem's Heartbeat: a Manual of Prosody.  Story Line, 1997.
      • Fussell, Paul.  Poetic Meter and Poetic Form.  New York: McGaw-Hill, 1979.
      • Hartman, Charles O.  Free Verse: an Essay on Prosody.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1996.
      • Hobsbawm, Philip.  Metre, Rhythm, and Verse Form. 
      • Steele, Timothy.  All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: an Explanation of Meter and Versification.  Columbus: Ohio UP, 1999.
    • Rhyme:
      • Hollander, John.  Rhyme's Reason: a Guide to English Verse.  New Haven: Yale UP, .
      • McAuley, James.  Versification: a Short Introduction.  East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1983.
      • Steele, Timothy.  All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: an Explanation of Meter and Versification.  Columbus: Ohio UP, 1999.
    • Sound Devices:
      • Gross, Harvey.  Sound and Form in Modern Poetry.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
      • Pinsky, Robert.  The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999,

• General:

  • 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:

    • English Poetry

    • History of Poetry

• Genres:

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Lyric Poetry:

      • Dramatic Monologue

      • Elegy

      • Ode

      • Sonnet

    • Narrative Poetry:

      • Ballad

      • Epic Poetry

    • Verse Drama and Dramatic Verse

• Style, Aspects of:

  • Diction:

    • Poetic Diction

  • Metre:

    • Free Verse

    • Metre (Poetry)

  • Rhyme:

    • Free Verse

    • Rhyme: Rhyme Scheme

  • Sound Devices:
    • Alliteration
    • Assonance

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