Given the popularity of poetry at LibriVox, I thought it would be interesting to put together a short list of ESSAYS ABOUT POETRY that would be welcome additions to the ongoing Short Nonfiction Collection. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=93782 All of these reads are available on Gutenberg:
A Defense of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm#link2H_4_0010
What is Popular Poetry, by W. B. Yeats, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32884/32884-h/32884-h.htm#Page_1
The Elements of Poetry, by George Santayana, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38280/38280-h/38280-h.htm#page_241
The Sacred Wood, Essays on Poetry and Criticism, by T.S. Eliot, (Essays on Blake, Dante, etc.), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57795
Persian Poetry, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22535/22535-h/22535-h.htm#Page_101
Poetry and Verse, by Ambrose Bierce, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66576/66576-h/66576-h.htm#POETRY_AND_VERSE
Essays on Poetry
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