Avenues for Further Learning

Thwaite, Anthony. Six Centuries of Verse. London: Methuen London Ltd., 1984.

Cronin, Richard, Alison Chapman, and Antony H. Harrison, eds. A Companion to Victorian Poetry. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub., 2002.

Falck, Colin. American and British Verse in the Twentieth Century: The Poetry that Matters. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003.

Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, rev. ed. New York: Random House, 1979.

Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets; Selected and Edited by Helen Gardner. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Hollander, John. Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse, 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Kohl, Herbert. A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them a Part of Your Life. New York: HarperFlamingo, 1999.

Mayes, Frances. The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems. San Diego: Harvest/Harcourt, Inc., 2001.

Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994.

Oliver, Mary. Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.

Pinsky, Robert. The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.

Prickett, Stephen, ed. The Romantics. London: Methuen, 1981.

Steele, Timothy. All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999.

Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland, eds. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.

Woodring, Carl, and James S. Shapiro, eds. The Columbia History of British Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Tucker, Patrick. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Six Centuries of Verse