Subject: English poetry › History and criticism

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• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver (493 copies)
• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound (439 copies)
• Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the… by Camille Paglia (341 copies)
• Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson (330 copies)
• Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from… by Elise Paschen (317 copies)
• The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C. S. Lewis (309 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (238 copies)
• The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks (211 copies)
• Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary… by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (203 copies)
• Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading… by Mary Oliver (181 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)
• Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (139 copies)
• The seventeenth century background; studies in the thought… by Basil Willey (132 copies)
• Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets (Norton Critical… by Ben Jonson (120 copies)
• Middle English Lyrics (Norton Critical Edition) by Maxwell S. Luria (120 copies)
• The Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism: Studies in the… by T. S. Eliot (95 copies)
• The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry by Harold Bloom (91 copies)
• An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton (89 copies)
• The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom (86 copies)
• How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton (80 copies)
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the… by David Perkins (79 copies)
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode by J. R. R. Tolkien (79 copies)
• Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye (74 copies)
• English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism by M. H. Abrams (71 copies)
• The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters by Thomas M. Disch (67 copies)
• Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism by Harold Bloom (66 copies)
• The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness,… by Malcolm Andrew (66 copies)
• 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the… by Ruth Padel (64 copies)
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After by David Perkins (62 copies)
• Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry by F. R. Leavis (55 copies)
• Victorian Poetry and Poetics by Walter E. Houghton (55 copies)
• The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt (55 copies)
• Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Isabel Rivers (53 copies)
• Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From… by Elise Paschen (45 copies)
• The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures by James Fenton (44 copies)
• Poetry: A Modern Guide to Its Understanding and Enjoyment by Elizabeth Drew (43 copies)
• The Religious Potential of the Child: Experiencing… by Sofia Cavalletti (43 copies)
• Other Traditions (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by John Ashbery (39 copies)
• Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form (The New Critical Idiom) by Philip Hobsbaum (38 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Louis Untermeyer (38 copies)
• Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Modern Essays in… by William R. Keast (38 copies)
• The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics by Helen Vendler (31 copies)
• Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century:… by Herbert J. C Grierson (31 copies)
• Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by Germaine Greer (30 copies)
• Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler (28 copies)
• The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard (27 copies)
• The Poetic Imagination: An Anglican Tradition (Traditions… by L. William Countryman (27 copies)
• Form and value in modern poetry by R. P. Blackmur (25 copies)
• Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (English Language… by Geoffrey N. Leech (25 copies)

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