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An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after his death. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage ...
A Wrong Turning in American Poetry. "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry" is an essay by United States poet Robert Bly which was first published in Choice magazine in 1963 [1] and collected in American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity. [2] It has subsequently been anthologized in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. [3]
Tradition and the Individual Talent. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published in The Egoist (1919) and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, The Sacred Wood (1920). [1] The essay is also available in Eliot's "Selected Prose" and "Selected Essays".
The first three sections of the poem set up the framework of the poem's structure, describing the narrative environment, physical landscape and interpersonal relationships that concern the narrator. [3] Carson herself, along with several critics, have referred to the poem as a lyric essay, despite its inclusion in a book of poetry. [4]
An Essay on Man. Alexander Pope published An Essay on Man in 1734. " An Essay on Man " is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook'), hence the opening line: "Awake, my St John...". [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate ...
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length ...
1891 title page of A Defense of Poetry by Ginn and Co., Boston. " A Defence of Poetry " is an unfinished essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in February and March 1821 that the poet put aside and never completed. [1] The text was published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. [2]
Lyrical Ballads. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition published in 1800 of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It came to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.