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"Readers of the AP Literature and Composition Exam continue to believe that close readings of poetry are the single best preparation for success on the AP Exam and in college course work." --Susan Strehle, 2009

Monday, April 29, 2013

Poetry Criticism and Theory

The following are essays to help you understand poetry.
As always, they increase in complexity as you go down the list.

Understanding Meter

Introduction to Rhyme and Stanza by Timothy Steele
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
Four Walls by Iain McGilchrist
Tradition and the Individual Talent by T.S. Eliot
Education by Poetry by Robert Frost
Being Difficult by Norman Ball
*No Antonin Artaud with the Flapjacks, Please by August Kleinzahler
*These are the poems, folks by David Yezzi
The Body of Poetry by Annie Finch
A Retrospect by Ezra Pound
Without a Net by Ernest Hilbert
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