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1. Guy Davenport

   Author of The Geography of the Imagination, The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing, Objects on a Table : Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature

2. Mark Strand

   Author of The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Selected Poems, The Contemporary American Poets

3. Michael Schmidt

   Author of Lives of the Poets, The First Poets

4. C. T. Allmand

   Author of Henry V, The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300-c.1450

5. Edward Hirsch

   Author of How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

6. William Packard

   Author of The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices

7. Reginald Gibbons

   Author of The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art

8. Michael J. Bugeja

   Author of The Art and Craft of Poetry

9. M. I. Finley

   Author of The World of Odysseus

10. John Drury

    Author of Creating Poetry

11. Bernard Knox

    Author of Classical Literature, The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections on the Classics

12. Judson Jerome

    Author of The Poet's Handbook

13. Laurence Perrine

    Author of Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense

14. Arthur M. Eastman

    Author of The Norton reader: An anthology of expository prose

15. John Hollander

    Author of Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize

16. Ron Padgett

    Author of The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms

17. Mary Kinzie

    Author of A Poet's Guide to Poetry

18. Kenneth Koch

    Author of Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

19. Edith Rickert

    Author of Chaucer's World

20. Mary Oliver

    Author of Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse