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• Arts: Literature: Reviews and Criticism  (290)

• The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century - William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale, looks at the change in poetry after the Victorian era, up until about 1918. British, Irish, and American poets are studied in this book.
• Against National Poetry Month As Such - Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.
• Aristotle's Poetics - Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.
• The Art of English Poetry - Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.
• The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages - An archive of interviews, readings, reviews and articles on poets and poetry - past and present.
• Bad Poetry - An introduction to bad poetry, though not necessarily by bad poets, with texts of various exemplary poems. As selected and annotated by Professor Seamus Cooney.
• berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews - Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.
• Callaloo - Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
• Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia - A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.
• Canadian Women Poets: Two Reviews by E. Russell Smith - Reviews of Stephanie Bolster's White Stone: The Alice Poems and Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow.
• Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady - An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.
• Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry - A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.
• DiversityBay: Book Reviews - Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
• Electronic Book Review - An online literary review.
• The Genealogy of Postmodernism - An essay by Albert Gelpi.
• It Is, As It's Elsewhere - Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."
• Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten - An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.
• Luminarium - One of the finest collections of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)
• Metaphysical Reviews - Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.
• Modern American Poetry - Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American Poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
• Modern Poetry - Studies of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry which focus on the "modernist" shift in style and subject matter.
• The Morning After - An essay on today's poetry and how we feel about, the morning after National Poetry Month. At goodreports.net.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection - The Internet Public Library's enormous database of literary criticism.
• Plagiarist.com Poetry Articles - Articles about poets, poems, and poetry in general. Includes book reviews, student guides, and articles on writing poetry.
• Poetry Book Review - Reviews of contemporary and classic English or English-language poetry collections.
• Poetry Criticism of Daniele DiGiacomo - A selection of critical papers by Daniele DiGiacomo on poetry ranging from Old English to Sylvia Plath.
• Poetry of the Eighties: Deconstructive Readings - An article on the poetry of the Eighties in Finland, using deconstructive close-reading. Also, three articles upon the subject in Finnish.
• Poetry Snark - Attacks on contemporary American poets. Featuring "Where Are They Know? Lost Poets of the 70s."
• Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s - An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.
• The Romanticism of Charlotte Turner Smith: Plurality of Vision - A research Paper by C. Fernandez on the multicultural aspects of the romantic poetry of Charlotte Turner Smith.
• Those Who Lie Like Truth - Senior thesis comparing modern and Classical Latin confessional poetry.
• Whose New American Poetry? - Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.