Essay on Poetry

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Essay on Poetry is a critical and reflective poem by John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, that articulates principles of poetic composition and taste in the late 17th century.

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instanceOf critical poem
didactic poem
poem
addresses critics
poets
readers of poetry
author John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
countryOfOrigin England
dateWritten late 17th century
discusses balance between nature and rules
criteria for good poetry
faults of contemporary poets
proper use of learning in poetry
role of judgment in writing
form verse essay
genre literary criticism
poetry
hasLiteraryForm heroic couplets
hasPerspective aristocratic view of taste
influenced Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
influencedBy Aristotle
Horace
classical poetics
language English
literaryMovement Neoclassicism
literaryPeriod Restoration literature
literaryStatus minor classic of English neoclassical criticism
meter iambic pentameter
publicationCentury 17th century
relatedWork An Essay on Criticism
Ars Poetica
setInContextOf late 17th-century English literary debates
subjectMatter principles of poetic criticism
the art of poetry
theme criticism of bad poets
decorum in poetry
imitation of classical models
judgment and taste in literature
poetic composition
poetic taste
relationship between nature and art
rules of poetry
use of wit in poetry

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