Poetical Theories

• Poetics by Aristotle

• Defence of Poesie by Sir Philip Sidney
• Preface to his Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by Samuel Johnson

• Biographia Literaria, Vol I. by S. T. Coloridge

• Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) by William Wordsworth

• The Four Ages of Poetry by Thomas Love Peacock

• A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Over-soul by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Function of Criticism at the Present Time by Matthew Arnold

• Style by Walter Pater

• The Perfect Critic by T. S .Eliot

• Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S .Eliot

• Sacred Wood (Collection of critical essays by T. S. Eliot)

On Poets

• The Poetry of Sappho: Introduction by J.B Hare

• Wordsworth by Walter Pater

• Coleridge by walter Pater

• Ted Hughes and Crow by Ann Skea