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Essays on Poetic Theory - Poetry Foundation
This section collects famous historical essays about poetry that have greatly influenced the art. Written by poets and critics from a wide range of historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives, the essays address the purpose of poetry, the possibilities of language, and the role of the poet in the world.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/essays
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The Traditional Theory of Poetry
This article is a companion to How to Write Better Poetry, which argues for the use of thought, artistic considerations, and richness in poetry writing. The Traditional Theory of Poetry presents the theory and philosophy of what makes the best poetry. The analysis should be useful to anyone either studying poetry or writing it.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/poetrytheory.html
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Literary Criticism - Poetry Beyond
There is no single methodology that governs Literary Criticism as a whole, but generally critics tend to proceed by drawing together close readings of texts with historical sources and/or theoretical frameworks.
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/literary-criticism.html
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Websites: Locating Criticism of Individual Poems
Web Sites: Locating Criticism of Individual Poems.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/poetrycrit/web.html
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Essays on Poetic Theory : The Poetry Foundation
Learn how to read poems and poetry with the Learning Lab's annotated poems, discussion questions, poetics essays and teaching resources. Find new children's authors.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/essays
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Glossary of Poetic Terms : The Poetry Foundation
Learn how to read poems and poetry with the Learning Lab's annotated poems, discussion questions, poetics essays and teaching resources. Find new children's authors.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=theory-and-criticism
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Poetry Criticism - Gale Literature Collections
Each of the more than 100 volumes in this long-standing series profiles approximately three to six poets selected from the literatures of all eras and all parts of the world. Entries provide an introductory biographical essay, a primary bibliography, a selection of full-text or excerpted criticisms reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals, and sources for additional research.
http://gdc.gale.com/gale-literature-collections/poetry-criticism
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Jahn: Poetry
Guide to Theory of Poetry.
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppp.htm
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A Theory of Poetry, and Poetry - NY Times
What is there left to do? This piercing question, which has been beating more and more loudly in the heart of every writer for the past three centuries, was the subject of a piercing book by Walter Jackson Bate six years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/bloom-repression.html
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Theory Of Poetry - Mission
This website is designed to present the only organized and structured theory of poetry in existence. The theory was developed and taught by poet Jose Garcia Villa, little known today but a striking presence in the first half of the 20th Century.
http://www.theoryofpoetry.com
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Poetry: Definitions, Theories, Reflections, Observations, Quips - Garden Digest
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality commonto us all, but perceived from a unique perspective.
http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/quoap1.htm
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Analyzing Poetry - Open Music Theory
Poetry favors the concrete and particular over the vague and abstract. Poetic language isn't disconnected from normal communication. Rather, it conveys ideas and emotions with greater precision than everyday language.
http://openmusictheory.com/analyzingPoetry.html
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Poetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poetics is the theory of literary forms and literary discourse. It may refer specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the concept of "theory" itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics
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Literary Theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory
