A topic within Poetry, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Ezra Pound
Argues literature should be judged by three distinct kinds of verbal charge — sound, image and wordplay — and proposes a minimal reading list of works that actually advanced the art, dismissing most of the accepted canon as filler.
William Empson
Close-reads canonical English poems line by line to show that a poem's most prized effects come from words holding multiple, even contradictory meanings at once, founding a method of reading poetry for what it does not quite resolve.