Classic Writings on Poetry Book

1	Plato	1
	The republic (excerpt)	3
2	Aristotle	31
	Poetics	33
3	Horace	63
	"Ars poetica"	64
4	Publius Cornelius Tacitus	75
	Germania (excerpt)	76
5	Longinus (?)	79
	"On the sublime" (excerpt)	80
6	Snorri Sturluson	107
	Skaldskaparmal	109
7	Sir Philip Sidney	115
	The defence of poesy	117
8	John Milton	153
	"Of education" (excerpt)	155
9	John Dryden	157
	An essay of dramatic poesy	159
10	Alexander Pope	207
	An essay on criticism	209
	Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	229
11	Samuel Johnson	243
	Lives of the poets (excerpts)	245
	"Life of Milton"	245
	"Preface to Abraham Cowley"	253
	"Life of Dryden"	256
	"Life of Thomas Gray"	263
12	Thomas Gray	269
	The progress of poesy	271
13	William Wordsworth	277
	Observations prefixed to Lyrical ballads	279
14	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	297
	Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV	299
15	Francis Jeffrey	305
	The state of modern poetry (excerpt)	307
16	William Hazlitt	313
	On poetry in general (excerpt)	315
17	Thomas Love Peacock	317
	The four ages of poetry (excerpt)	318
18	George Gordon, Lord Byron	331
	English bards and Scotch reviewers (excerpt)	333
19	Percy Bysshe Shelley	349
	A defence of poetry	351
20	William Cullen Bryant	375
	The poet	377
21	John Keats	379
	Poems	381
22	Ralph Waldo Emerson	385
	The poet (excerpt)	387
23	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	405
	Aurora Leigh, fifth book (excerpt)	407
24	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	423
	Poems	424
25	Edgar Allan Poe	429
	The philosophy of composition	431
26	Walt Whitman	441
	Preface to Leaves of grass, first edition	443
27	Matthew Arnold	461
	The study of poetry	463
28	Emily Dickinson	485
	Poems	487
29	Rudyard Kipling	493
	"Proofs of holy writ"	495
30	Ezra pound	507
	A retrospect	508
31	T. S. Eliot	519
	The possibility of a poetic drama	521
32	Laura (Riding) Jackson	527
	Poetic reality and critical unreality	529