Summer Reading, Reading List XV
Well summer has largely vanished, students will be back to the greenswalds of St. Lawrence in about two weeks, and the autumnal click of life will be upon us. So for a last summer reading list I’m going to call my own number again to submit a list of books about poetry, about writing, that resonate with me. Or will resonate, there are a couple of titles here I haven’t read but with this list am noting them for future reference…one or two short pieces mixed in here with the books:
- The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler
- An Appetite for Poetry by Frank Kermode
- Edward Said at the Limits by Mustapha Marrouchi
- The Second Tree From the Corner by EB White
- “An Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope (link to the Poetry Foundation)
- How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
- “The Poet in the City,” The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays by WH Auden
- Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism by Madhu Dubey
- Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry by Maxine Kumin
Nice little list, if I do say so myself. Of course, EB White’s essay on writing in his famous Elements of Style with William Strunk is well worth reading…