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Classic Writings on Poetry.

Classic Writings on Poetry. Hardcover - 2003

by William Harman, Editor

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New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. 538 pages, history and criticism of poetics from Plato & Aristotle to Pound & Eliot. Includes essays and critiques by Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Kipling, and more. Collection of writing by great English and American poets about poetry.
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  • Title Classic Writings on Poetry.
  • Author William Harman, Editor
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11233
  • ISBN 9780231123709 / 0231123701
  • Weight 1.92 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.36 x 1.42 in (23.62 x 16.15 x 3.61 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetics, Poetry - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003040917
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.1

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  • Choice, 04/01/2004, Page 1467
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2003, Page 69
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2004, Page 68

About the author

Poet, critic, and anthologist, William Harmon is the James Gordon Hanes Professor in the Humanities (English and Comparative Literature) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor of The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, The Top 500 Poems, and The Classic Hundred Poems, all published by Columbia, as well as The Oxford Book of American Light Verse.