Readings from the New Criticism on our syllabus

• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926)
• John Crowe Ransom, from "Wanted: An Ontological Critic" (pp. 279-316 only) from his New Criticism (1941)
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" from his The Well Wrought Urn (1947)
• Cleanth Brooks, "Keats's Sylvan Historian" from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819)
• Cleanth Brooks, excerpt from "Irony as a Principle of Structure" (1949)
• W. K. Wimsatt, "The Concrete Universal" (1947), rpt. in his The Verbal Icon (1954)
• W. K. Wimsatt, "The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery" (1949), rpt. in his The Verbal Icon
• From I'll Take My Stand by "Twelve Southerners" (1930):
• John Crowe Ransom, excerpt from "Reconstructed But Unregenerate" (pp. 17-22 only)
• Andrew Nelson Lytle, excerpt from "The Hind Tit" (pp. 216-234 only)

       Other resources for discussion

• "Close Reading" tip sheet used in English courses today.

• Etc.

• John Crowe Ransom, from "Wanted: An Ontological Critic"

• Other materials for discussion:

• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, "Letter to the Teacher" from Understanding Poetry (1938) | Selected examples of readings and exercises in the anthology
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) (instructor's annotated version)
• Cleanth Brooks, "Keats's Sylvan Historian" from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
• Cleanth Brooks, excerpt from "Irony as a Principle of Structure" (1949)
• W. K. Wimsatt, "The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery" (1949)
• "Close Reading" tip sheet

• Example poem for close reading:
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) (instructor's annotated version)