> I second the recommendation of Aristotle's Poetics. Though ostensibly
> about drama, it's really about any type of art.
I must say, Jon, that I find Aristotle's Poetics mediocre. It was only
last year, one insomniac morning in May, when I sidled away from my
sleeping girlfriend's bed, at about 4 a.m., and looked about for
something to read, while the early morning herons beaked at her pond,
and I picked up the Penguin translation, and read it, and thought: 'Is
that it?'
2008/7/15 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>:
> I second the recommendation of Aristotle's Poetics. Though ostensibly
> about drama, it's really about any type of art.
>
> I've found many useful obiter dicta about poetry in Edith Sitwell's
> Atlantic Anthology and in the Pound/Spann Confucius to Cummings
> anthology.
>
> And Pound's early literary essays are also full of good, concrete advice.
>
> Aside from those, I've found it better to learn by studying poems that
> impress me.
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