This category includes poetry criticism and theory in the form of book reviews, essays, treatises and articles. The material covers a wide range - from contemporary to classic, regional to international. While some online journals and literary reviews are included, it is not primarily a category for webzines.
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- Luminarium Collection of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)
- It Is, As It's Elsewhere Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."
- Electronic Book Review An online literary review.
- Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.
- Against National Poetry Month As Such Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.
- Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection The Internet Public Library's database of literary criticism.
- Poetry Snark Attacks on contemporary American poets.
- Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.
- Whose New American Poetry? Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.
- Bad Poetry An introduction to bad poetry, though not necessarily by bad poets, with texts of various exemplary poems. As selected and annotated by Professor Seamus Cooney.
- The Genealogy of Postmodernism An essay by Albert Gelpi.
- berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews Book reviews by Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.
- Modern American Poetry Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
- DiversityBay: Book Reviews Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
- Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.
- Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.
- Aristotle's Poetics Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.
- Callaloo Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.