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Background

Timeline of Major Critical Theories in US

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 Definitions and Explanations of New Criticism

• Basics of New Criticism -- class discussion from AP Seminar, June 2002
• Basics of New Criticism -- class discussion notes from AP Workshop, July 2000
• WAWA of New Criticism (2001)
• Definition of New Criticism from a Prof at U of Manitoba
• New Criticism Explained by a Prof from Southern Oregon
• Essential Terms and Ideas of New Criticism from a College Class

 
• Excerpts from Brooks and Warren's Understanding Poetry
• A Critical Summary of Brooks, Cleanth. "Irony as a Principle of Structure"
• Abyss Notes for Reading Brooks' "The Language of Paradox" by E.K. Sparks
• The Canonization -- The Language of Paradox Reconsidered -- an essay which questions and revises Brooks' interpretation of Donne's poem 

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Help on Poetry Analysis
• How to Read a Poem by E.K. Sparks
• Poetry Analysis: A Quick Reference Guide
• A Guide to Critical Reading of Poetry from Ontario

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Poems to Analyze

• A Nice List of Pretty Classic Poems
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica"
• Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Mother"
• Annotated "Mother"
• John's Donne's "The Canonization"
• Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
• Marge Piercy, "A Work of Artifice" (the bonsai poem)
• Marge Piercy, "Barbie Doll"
• Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
• AP Annotations 2002
• Student Annotations of "Ball Turret" (2002)
• Notes on War Poems (2002)
• AP Class Annotations on "Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner (2001)
• Emily Dickinson, "My Life Had Stood, a Loaded Gun"
• Annotations for "My Life Had Stood" (AP2002)
• Guide to Dickinson Poems on Line
• Relationship Poems I Teach


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