A fantastic collection of essays written by famous poets from 1800-1950. The progression of various movements of poetry such as surrealism and the interplay between poetic forms and these movements is fascinating. Imagine reading a treatise on painting by a famous painter! This book is the same, except poets! Poets included are: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Hopkins, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Breton, Lorca, Valéry, Césaire, Pound, Eliot, Loy, Hughes, Zukofsky, Stein, Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Charles Olson.