Can we discuss poetic theory? What are some good works on it?

>>8929517
Just read poetry. Would "theory" kind of go against the idea of poetry? Are you going to reduce it to math or material?

>>8929742
illiterate post. go back to r/books

>>8929742
This is the most annoying idea I've ever heard. There's nothing special about words on a page – nothing ethereal. They're subject to analysis.

Ignore the tards.

Walter Benjamin on Baudelaire

Lacoue-Labarthe on the relationship between poetry and experience

Adorno on poetry and politics

Heidigger for the really out there shit

>>8931721


Here. This shit right here has legs that will take you to crazy places in poetry for days

Or else: plebian

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3685248?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

>>8929517
The Mythic Method is probably the most important thing to look at as far as great poetry.

unless of cousre you somehow don't believe Eliot to be the goal of poetry

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>>8929517
not the most exciting book in the world.... but very clear and concise.

sections on; metre, form, layout, punctuation, lineation, rhyme, diction, syntax, history of poetry etc

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Coleridge's Biographia Literaria