The method of studying poetry which I have followed in this book was sketched some years ago in my chapter on "Poetry" in Counsel Upon the Reading of Books. My confidence that the genetic method is the natural way of approaching the subject has been shared by many lovers of poetry. I hope, however, that I have not allowed my insistence upon the threefold process of "impression, transforming imagination, and expression" to harden into a set formula. Formulas have a certain dangerous usefulness for critics and teachers, but they are a very small part of one's training in the appreciation of poetry.
A Study of Poetry
Bliss Perry
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Harvard Classics Volume 51 : Lectures
Robert Matteson Johnston, Golden Deer Classics, William Scott Ferguson, Murray Anthony Potter, Frederick Jackson Turner, Carleton Noyes, Charles Burton Gulick, Charles Hall Grandgent, Ernest Bernbaum, Lawrence J. Henderson, W. M. Davis, Ralph Barton Perry, Charles Pomeroy Parker, Chester Noyes Greenough, William Roscoe Thayer, W. S. Ferguson, Chandler Rathfon Post, O. M. W. Sprague, W. A. Neilson, F. N. Robinson, G. H. Maynadier, J. D. M. Ford, Bliss Perry, H. W. Holmes, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, A. O. Norton, Thomas Nixon Carver, Charles J. Bullock, W. B. Munro, Roscoe Pound, George Pierce Baker, Kuno Francke, R. B. Dixon, George H. Chase, C. R. Lanman, Alfred Dwight Sheffield, Clifford Herschel Moore, C. H. C. Wright
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