Poet's Sourcebook: Writings about Poetry, from the Ancient World to the Present - Paperback

by Dawn Potter (Editor)

A collection of writings about poetry from both ancient and contemporary writers including Homer, Plato, Aristotle, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Philip Levine, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, and Rita Dove.

Author Biography

Dawn Potter directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, held each summer at Robert Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire. She is the author of seven books of prose and poetry, most recently The Vagabond's Bookshelf: A Reader's Memoir. In addition to writing, teaching, and editing, she sings and plays fiddle with the band Doughty Hill. She lives in Portland, Maine.