Subject: American poetry › History and criticism

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• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver (499 copies)
• Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the… by Camille Paglia (342 copies)
• Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from… by Elise Paschen (317 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (240 copies)
• The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and… by Frances Mayes (145 copies)
• The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney (142 copies)
• The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom (87 copies)
• How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton (81 copies)
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the… by David Perkins (79 copies)
• Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye (74 copies)
• The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of… by David Lehman (71 copies)
• The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters by Thomas M. Disch (68 copies)
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After by David Perkins (62 copies)
• The Situation of Poetry by Robert Pinsky (50 copies)
• Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From… by Elise Paschen (45 copies)
• American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity by Robert Bly (44 copies)
• Poetry: A Modern Guide to Its Understanding and Enjoyment by Elizabeth Drew (44 copies)
• The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures by James Fenton (43 copies)
• Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (Galaxy Books) by Harold Bloom (41 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Louis Untermeyer (38 copies)
• The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics by Helen Vendler (31 copies)
• Highest Apple by Judy Grahn (30 copies)
• Voices and Visions: The Poet in America (Companion to the… by New York Center for Visual History (29 copies)
• Poetics of the New American Poetry by Donald Merriam Allen (29 copies)
• Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler (26 copies)
• Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr (25 copies)
• Form and value in modern poetry by R. P. Blackmur (25 copies)
• The poetry of the blues by Samuel B. Charters (24 copies)
• Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath by Helen Vendler (23 copies)
• Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000 by Robert Hass (23 copies)
• Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read Poetry and Why by Josephine Hart (22 copies)
• Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets by Sandra M. Gilbert (21 copies)
• Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns… by Anthony Hecht (19 copies)
• The Continuity of American Poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce (18 copies)
• The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry by Robert K. Martin (17 copies)
• The Mechanic Muse by Hugh Kenner (17 copies)
• Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters by Joseph Parisi (15 copies)
• Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (A Bread… by Robert Pack (15 copies)
• The Breaking of the Vessels by Harold Bloom (15 copies)
• The modern poets; a critical introduction by Macha Louis. [from old catalog] Rosenthal (15 copies)
• Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: Second Edition (Ann Arbor… by Harvey Gross (14 copies)
• Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and… by Donald Hall (14 copies)
• American Poetry: The Rhetoric of Its Forms by Mutlu Konuk Blasing (13 copies)
• What Is Poetry: Conversations With the American Avant-Garde by Daniel Kane (13 copies)
• Poetry in our time, a critical survey of poetry in the… by Babette Deutsch (13 copies)
• The Powers of Poetry by Gilbert Highet (12 copies)
• The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After… by John Hollander (12 copies)
• Poetry and Pragmatism (Convergences: Inventories of the… by Richard Poirier (12 copies)
• Color, Sex, and Poetry (Blacks in the Diaspora Series and… by Gloria T. Hull (12 copies)
• Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman,… by Helen Vendler (11 copies)

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