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Contents: Introduction.--Geoffrey Chaucer: Invocation from The hous of fame.--Edmund Spenser: The perfect paterne of a poet.--Sir Philip Sidney: An apologie for poetrie.--Thomas Campion: Observations on the art of English poesie.--Samuel Daniel: A defence of ryme.--Ben Jonson: poets and poetry.--Jonh Milton: A school of poetry.--Jonh Dryden: Heroic poetry and poetic licence.--Alexander Pope: The lyric style and style of sound.--Thomas Gray: Metrum: obsevations on English metre.--Robert Burns: Songs and song writing.--Sir Walter Scoltt: On Ballad poetry.--William Wordsworth: Observations and a passage on poeic diction.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wordsworth and the art Lord Byron: The present state of English poetry.--John Keats: The genius of poetry, and his own art.--Walter Savage Landor: Poetry without body.--Robert Browning: Shelley and the art of poetry.--Matthew Arnold: On translating Homer.--Robert Bridges: Poetry and poetic diction
