Classic writings on poetry

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.