Reading List
American Prosody - Allen, Gay Wilson
Poetics - Aristotle
Ich und Du (I and Thou) Buber, Martin
Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton - Coleridge
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Dryden, John
Emerson:"The Music of Poetry"
"The Poet"
"Nature"
"The American Scholar"
Poetic Meter and Poetic form - Fussell, Paul
Proofs & Theories - Louise Glück
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry - Gross, Harvey
How to Read a Poem - Hirsch, Edward
Poetry and the Age - Jarrell, Randall
Selected Letters - Keats
Birth of a Tragedy - Nietzsche
Pensees - Pascal
The Situation of Poetry - Pinsky, Robert
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
On Lies, Secrets and Silence - Rich, Adrienne
Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke
Modern Poetics - Scully, James
Apology for Poetry - Sidney, Phillip
I stole this from UNCW's reading list. I'm going to supplement it, though. These are the books I can get at the E-town library, heh. I have a copy of "Letters to a Young Poet" somewhere.
Poetics - Aristotle
Ich und Du (I and Thou) Buber, Martin
Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton - Coleridge
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Dryden, John
Emerson:"The Music of Poetry"
"The Poet"
"Nature"
"The American Scholar"
Poetic Meter and Poetic form - Fussell, Paul
Proofs & Theories - Louise Glück
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry - Gross, Harvey
How to Read a Poem - Hirsch, Edward
Poetry and the Age - Jarrell, Randall
Selected Letters - Keats
Birth of a Tragedy - Nietzsche
Pensees - Pascal
The Situation of Poetry - Pinsky, Robert
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
On Lies, Secrets and Silence - Rich, Adrienne
Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke
Modern Poetics - Scully, James
Apology for Poetry - Sidney, Phillip
I stole this from UNCW's reading list. I'm going to supplement it, though. These are the books I can get at the E-town library, heh. I have a copy of "Letters to a Young Poet" somewhere.