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Poetics.

Here are entered works discussing collectively the technique and philosophy of poetry and works limited to the technique of poetry. General works on poetry and works limited to the philosophy of poetry are entered under Poetry.

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• Poetry

• Poetics -- 19th century
• Poetics -- Early works to 1800
• Poetics -- History
• Poetics -- Terminology
• Poetry -- Authorship

• Poetry -- Technique

• A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Romantic Poetics of Public Feeling (2021), ed. by Lily Gurton-Wachter and Tristram Wolff (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Notes sur la Technique Poétique (in French; Paris: Champion, 1925), by Georges Duhamel and Charles Vildrac
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), by Donald Wesling (HTML at UC Press)
• Corneille, Tasso, and Modern Poetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by A. Donald Sellstrom (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Mirror of Composition: A Treatise on Poetical Criticism (Kolkata: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, 1875), by Viśvanātha Kavirāja, trans. by James Robert Ballantyne and Pramada Dasa Mitra
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "Soundings of Things Done": The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era (2008), by Susan J. Wolfson (PDF at Romantic Circles)

• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• The Poetics of Jacobean Drama (originally published 1981; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Lee Rubin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Baird (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Soulspeak: The Outward Journey of the Soul (c2002), by Justin Spring (HTML and PDF with commentary at Pitt)
• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations on Religion, With Lord Byron and Others, Held in Cephalonia, A Short Time Previous to His Lordship's Death (London: J. Murray, 1830), by James Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Conversations With Walt Whitman (New York: E. P. Coby and Co., 1895), by Sadakichi Hartmann, contrib. by Walt Whitman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), by Guinn Batten (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Dictionary of Haiku, Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods, by Jane Reichhold (HTML at ahapoetry.com)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Theory is Like a Surging Sea (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1978), by Michael Riffaterre (HTML with commentary at Indiana)
• The Metaphysician in the Dark (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Charles Simic (page images at HathiTrust)
• More Power to Poets: A Plea for More Poetry in Life, More Life in Poetry (New York: H. Harrison, c1934), by Lucia Trent and Ralph Cheyney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Ignacio Navarrete (HTML at UC Press)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Another Future of Poetry (London: L. and V. Woolf, 1926), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte Poetica (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1818), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, trans. by Luís de Meneses Ericeira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Defence of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (HTML at Toronto)
• A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)
• Guide to Social Happiness (New York: E. Walker, ca. 1850), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• How to Write Poetry (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1919), by Ethel Maude Colson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
• L'Art Poétique (student edition, in French with English notes; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1898), by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, ed. by David Nichol Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nowadays (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1918), by Lord Dunsany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• The Ring of Love, and Other Poems (Boston: Cornhill Pub. Co., c1923), by Brookes More, illust. by Tracy Porter Rudd and Lewis Perry (multiple formats at Google)
• A Study of Poetry, by Bliss Perry (Gutenberg text)
• Thamyris: or, Is There a Future for Poetry? (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by R. C. Trevelyan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes sur la Technique Poétique (in French; Paris: Champion, 1925), by Georges Duhamel and Charles Vildrac
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Studies in Poetry and Criticism (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by John Churton Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art and Scholasticism, and The Frontiers of Poetry, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
• The Poet's Poet: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years, by Elizabeth Atkins (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.