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Web links
The first section on this page has links to articles available on the web on issues relevant to writing nonskittery poetry and to constructing a new poetics.
The next section has links to criticism relating to individual poets (Hopkins, Plalth, Ryan), and a website with thousands of French poems and critiques.
Poetics and Concepts
Skittery poetry
Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment
by Tony Hoagland
Excellent exploration of key issues in contemporary poetry.
A must read.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=177773
Modernism and Postmodernism
Very useful short summary sections on Modernism and
Post Modernism: founders, characteristics, continuity and contrasts
http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html
Cultural mythologies
Roland Barthes on culture & cultural "mythologies," and decoding the meanings imbedded in cultural artifacts and trivia
http://orac.sund.ac.uk/~os0tmc/myth.htm
Surrealism Through The Nuyoricans & Beyond
Dan Schneider's detailed and incisive critiques of contemporary poets
http://www.cosmoetica.com/D9-DES8.htm
The sublime
Longinus - On the Sublime
Sound, practical advice on how to write in ways that transport and enthrall the reader, along with trenchant warnings to avoid overblown and high-falutin' language, pedantry and affectation, and faked or mawkish sentiment.
http://www.brysons.net/academic/longinus.html
The female sublime
Fascinating article by Tim Fulford on the female sublime
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n13/005842ar.html
Poets
G. M. Hopkins
Over 60 lectures on G. M. Hopkins by specialists and noted literary critics, including Hugh Kenner. Marvelous material--I will try to do a Hopkins page that summarizes and gives individual URLs for the lectures which are particularly relevant for constructing a new poetics
http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/archive/index.html
G. M. Hopkins' poems
Over 70 of Gerard Manley Hopkins poems with Robert Bridges notes for each poem,and a nice introduction covering Hopkins life and prosody.
http://www.bartleby.com/122/index2.html
Sylvia Plath
Great website with articles and extensive links dealing with Plath's poems
and her use of metaphor, myth making, and prosody.
http://www.sylviaplath.de/
Plathetic fallacies
Wonderful article by Fred Beake on Sylvia Plath
http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/lynx/lynx56.html
Kay Ryan
Illuminating review of Kay Ryan's Elephant Rocks with copious
excerpts from Ryan's poems.
http://www.ablemuse.com/premiere/cmuse_review.htm
Sangam Poets
Vibrant short poems on love--anxiety, romantic fulfillment, disillusion, and abandonment--written two millennia ago and translated from the Tamil.
The poems selected here are visually and kinetically alive, and emotionally expressive. They use metaphor and quasi-metaphor in unusual ways.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/226.sangam.html
French Poetry
A large site of French poetry of all eras with a good sample of poems by all the well-known French poets, along with short bios and excellent and detailed critiques of most of the poems. All the crtiques I read were very comprehensive and often included the best elements of the classic explication de texte.
I highly recommend this site for all who speak French, atlhough I much prefered its predecssor, Bibliioweb.
http://www.litterales.com/litterature2.php
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