The Rules of Poetry - Essays on Poetic Theory as Told by the Greats

The Rules of Poetry is a brand new collection of classic essays on the subject of poetics written by various seminal poets including D. H. Lawrence H. P. Lovecraft Percy Bysshe Shelley and others. Offering expert insights into the theory of poetry by some of the fields most famous contributors this volume is not to be missed by avid readers and writers of poetry alike. Contents include: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope On Poetry in General by William Hazlitt The Four Ages of Poetry by Thomas Love Peacock A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson A Dialogue by Margaret Fuller The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar A. Poe The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold etc. Read & Co. Great Essays is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now for a new generation of readers and writers.