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The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 11,629 ratings — published 1957
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,078 ratings — published 1994
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,051 ratings — published 2012
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,854 ratings — published -335
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,108 ratings — published 1978
The Art of the Poetic Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 709 ratings — published 2007
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 133,366 ratings — published 1929
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach – 90+ Inspiring Essays and Effective Exercises for Writers of All Levels (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,264 ratings — published 1992
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,093 ratings — published 2005
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,008 ratings — published 1997
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,382 ratings — published 1997
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 746 ratings — published 1965
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 796 ratings — published 1951
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,149 ratings — published 1998
The Life of Poetry (Paris Press)
by (shelved 9 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 310 ratings — published 1968
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,753 ratings — published 2016
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 61,290 ratings — published 2009
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,785 ratings — published 1973
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,206 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 663 ratings — published 2010
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 550 ratings — published 2006
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 250 ratings — published 1997
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 827 ratings — published 1994
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,968 ratings — published 1934
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.32 — 289 ratings — published 2019
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 432 ratings — published 2009
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 262 ratings — published 1968
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,670 ratings — published 1998
Theory of the Lyric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 133 ratings — published 2015
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,733 ratings — published 1971
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 397 ratings — published 1996
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.36 — 412 ratings — published 2015
Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,623 ratings — published 1986
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 338,639 ratings — published 1923
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,539,278 ratings — published 1974
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 119,410 ratings — published 1855
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 424 ratings — published 1962
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,438 ratings — published 2000
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 376 ratings — published 1999
The Language of Inquiry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 274 ratings — published 2000
My Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,555 ratings — published 1985
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.49 — 211 ratings — published 1993
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,554 ratings — published 1996
In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,148 ratings — published
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,318 ratings — published 1922
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.76 — 453 ratings — published 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,111 ratings — published 2014
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,061 ratings — published 1667
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,631 ratings — published 1984
“For as an essential characteristic of the formula is repeat, an essential of simile is uniqueness.”
― The Iliad of Homer
― The Iliad of Homer
“Un mot et tout est perdu, un mot et tout est sauvé.”
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