Adolf Arnold ed.
City In All Directions:an anthology
Of Modern Poems. Canada: Macmillan Company, 1969. A collection of poems about city life written by such established contemporary poets as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Vladimir Mayakosky and others.
Angelou, Maya.
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
. New York: Random House, 1975.
Auslander, Joseph, and Frank Ernest Hill.
The Winged Horse
. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1927. The story of the development of poetry beginning with Homer’s poetry and ending with discussions on the poetry of T.S. Eliot,Hilda Doolittle, and Ezra Pound.
Deutsch, Babette.
Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms
. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1974.
Dunning, Stephen, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith, eds.
Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needles: And Other Complete Modern Poems
. Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1969.
Eberhart, Richard.
Of Poetry and Poets
. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
Gibbons, Reginald, ed. The
Poet’s Work: 29
Masters of
Twentieth Century Poetry on the Origins and Practice of Their Art
. Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1979.
Hall, Donald, ed.
The Modern Stylists
. New York: The Free Press, 1968. A collection of essays on the art of writing by contemporary writers and poets.
Hamburger, Michael.
Truth of Poetry
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1975.
Highet, Gilbert.
The Powers of Poetry
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Hochman, Sandra.
Streams: Life-Secrets for Writing Poems and Songs
. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Useful exercises for writing poetry designed for anyone interested in writing poetry.
Howe, Florence and Ellen Bass, eds.
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women
. New York: Anchor Press, 1973. Contains an interesting and informative discussion on the history of women poets and their writings.
Jordan, June, ed.
Soulscript
. New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1970.
Koch, Kenneth.
Rose Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children
. New York: Random House, 1973.
Koch, Kenneth and Kate Farrell.
Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
Koch, Kenneth.
Wishes, Lies And Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
Packard, William, ed.
The Craft of Poetry: Interviews from “The New York Quarterly”
. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, John Ashbery, are a few of the poets whose interviews appear in this collection.
Rosenthal, M.L.
Poetry and the Common Life
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Scannell, Vernon.
How To Enjoy Poetry
. London: Piatkus Publishers, 1983.
Scholes, Robert.
Elements of Poetry
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Silverstein, Sheldon.
A Light In The Attic
. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. Humorous poems about common life situations. These poems can be enjoyed by children and adults.
Trefethen, Florence.
Writing A Poem
. Massachusetts: The Writer, Inc., 1970. Contains an interesting chapter entitled “Experimenting with Unusual Form”.
Trilling, Lionel, ed.
Literary Criticism
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970. Of particular interest is A.C. Bradley’s essay “Poetry for Poetry’s Sake.
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny.
Stolen Apples
. New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1978.
