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10 best books like The Pound Era (Hugh Kenner): Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, On Poetry And Poets, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, Collected Poems of George Oppen, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0075536064
Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Revised edition (January 1, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0075536064
ISBN-13: 978-0075536062
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.3 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping...
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0394702786
In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places,...
Yeats: The Man and the Masks
AuthorRichard Ellmann
ISBN0393008592
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

One of the most influential poets of his age, W.B. Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. His life was complex in both its outer and inner events. Yeats's mystical concerns, such as his involvement with spiritualism and construction...
On Poetry And Poets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571089836
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
AuthorAlex Preminger
ISBN0691021236
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
AuthorRobert Hass
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published...
Collected Poems of George Oppen
AuthorGeorge Oppen
ISBN0811206157
First published in 1975, and available now as a New Directions Paperbook, George Oppen's Collected Poems brings together the work of one of our foremost contemporary poets, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize. A member of the Objectivist school that flourished in the 1930s (which also included William...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
AuthorCleanth Brooks
ISBN0156957051
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
AuthorEzra Pound
ISBN0811201570
This collection of essays, edited by Pound's friend and fellow poet T.S. Eliot, contains essays from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations(1920), How to Read(1931), Make it New(1934), and Polite Essays(1937). The thirty-three essays contained in this collection...
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0195014715
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?

M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
Poetry and the Age
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0813021081
About Poetry and the Age:

"Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review

"Randall Jarrell’s book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The...
The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition
AuthorIan P. Watt
ISBN0520230698
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.

In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the...
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN0374529272
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust,...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
AuthorPaul De Man
ISBN0300028458

This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust.  The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the...
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
AuthorMalcolm Bradbury
ISBN0140138323
History

Any reader of literary fiction from the last 120 years will sooner or later encounter the distinction between Modernism and Post-Modernism.

My teenage years coincided with the 1970's. During this period I became a consumer and advocate of Modernism, whether or not I could...
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
AuthorGuy Davenport
ISBN1567920802
I've lost count of the times I read his essay on Whitman.

Within a few miles of each other in the 1880s, Whitman was putting the last touches to his great book, Eadweard Muybridge was photographing movements milliseconds apart of animals, naked athletes, and women, and Thomas Eakins was painting...
Seven Types of Ambiguity
AuthorWilliam Empson
Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition,...
In the American Grain
AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams
ISBN0811202305
Prose essays ranging in theme from Erik the Red and Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln about what it means to be an American.

William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. He found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning,...
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
AuthorNorthrop Frye
ISBN0802089836
Published in 1947, Fearful Symmetry was Northrop Frye's first book and the product of over a decade of intense labour. Drawing readers into the imaginative world of William Blake, Frye succeeded in making Blake's voice and vision intelligible to the wider public. Distinguished by its range of reference,...
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
AuthorRoger Shattuck
ISBN0394704150
The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck...
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