Subject: English poetry History and criticism

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• A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and… by Mary Oliver (1,492 copies)
• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound (982 copies)
• The Allegory of Love by C. S. Lewis (790 copies)
• Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson (758 copies)
• Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the… by Camille Paglia (558 copies)
• Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from… by Elise Paschen (521 copies)
• Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (477 copies)
• The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks (466 copies)
• Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading… by Mary Oliver (443 copies)
• Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt (405 copies)
• The redress of poetry by Seamus Heaney (329 copies)
• The Seventeenth Century Background: The Thought of the Age… by Basil Willey (318 copies)
• The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and… by Frances Mayes (316 copies)
• Lives of the English poets by Samuel Johnson (285 copies)
• How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton (272 copies)
• The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism by T. S. Eliot (246 copies)
• Finn and Hengest by J. R. R. Tolkien (235 copies)
• Middle English Lyrics [Norton Critical Edition] by Maxwell S. Luria (220 copies)
• Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets [Norton Critical Edition] by Hugh MacLean (212 copies)
• An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton (209 copies)
• The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry by Harold Bloom (200 copies)
• The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom (198 copies)
• The Religious Potential of the Child: Experiencing… by Sofia Cavalletti (186 copies)
• Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye (179 copies)
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the… by David Perkins (158 copies)
• The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt (151 copies)
• 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the… by Ruth Padel (148 copies)
• English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism by M. H. Abrams (142 copies)
• Victorian Poetry and Poetics by Walter E. Houghton (134 copies)
• Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from… by Elise Paschen (133 copies)
• The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure… by John Lennard (133 copies)
• Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism by Harold Bloom (125 copies)
• Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Isabel Rivers (117 copies)
• A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After by David Perkins (112 copies)
• Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry by F. R. Leavis (112 copies)
• Metaphysical lyrics & poems of the seventeenth century :… by Herbert J. C. Grierson (107 copies)
• The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters by Thomas M. Disch (104 copies)
• How Poetry Works by Philip Davies Roberts (99 copies)
• Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets by Josephine Hart (90 copies)
• The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures by James Fenton (90 copies)
• Poetry: A Modern Guide to Its Understanding and Enjoyment by Elizabeth Drew (86 copies)
• Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler (78 copies)
• Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of… by Louis Untermeyer (77 copies)
• Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr (72 copies)
• The Poetic Imagination: An Anglican Tradition (Traditions… by Louis William Countryman (71 copies)
• The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics by Helen Vendler (71 copies)
• Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum (68 copies)
• Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000 by Robert Hass (68 copies)
• Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Modern Essays in… by William R. Keast (66 copies)
• Other Traditions (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by John Ashbery (64 copies)

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