Classic Writings on Poetry by William Harmon (Editor)
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Overview: The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Poet”
“[The poet] is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus. “—Walt Whitman, from the preface to Leaves of Grass
Poetry has always given rise to interpretation, judgment, and controversy. Indeed, the history of poetry criticism is as rich and varied a journey as the history of poetry itself. But classic writings such as Emerson’s essay “The Poet” and Whitman’s preface to Leaves of Grass serve as more than a critical “call and response”: the works are striking examples of how the finest poets themselves have written on poetics and the works of their peers and predecessors—revealing, in the process, much about the theory and passion behind their own works.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism
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