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Formal Criticism: Poem as Context

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http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/understanding-poetry.html
Excerpts from the 1938 edition of Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren (one of the classic texts of formalist criticism)
( http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/understanding-poetry.html )
http://shakespeare.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hup.harvard.edu...
Critic Helen Vendler's close reading of Shakespeare's sonnet #30
( http://shakespeare.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hup.harvard.edu... )