Most cited papers in Poetry Analysis and Criticism

Poetry Analysis and Criticism

What are the most cited papers in Poetry Analysis and Criticism?

The most cited paper in Poetry Analysis and Criticism is "Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State" (Anthony P. Cohen, 1998), with 758 citations. Next come "Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End" (531) and "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)" (443).

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Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 50 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State Anthony P. Cohen · American Ethnologist	Feb 1998	758
2	Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End John Bender, Barbara Herrnstein Smith · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1970	531
3	The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) Jewel Spears Brooker · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	10 May 2004	443
4	Contemporary titans: Joseph Bolivar DeLee and John Whitridge Williams David N. Danforth · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology	Nov 1974	375
5	Introduction: Inventing Traditions Piers Gray · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks Book chapter	1991	325
6	Here and Now James W. Garson · The Monist	1969	283
7	Literary Theory: An Anthology William L. Baker · Reference Reviews	Apr 1998	281
8	Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another Marshall W. Fishwick · The Journal of American Culture	4 Nov 2004	267
9	The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920, 1921) Jewel Spears Brooker · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	10 May 2004	258
10	Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place. Bryan D. Palmer, George Lipsitz · Journal of American History	Mar 1999	238
11	Agency: Promiscuous and Protean Karlyn Kohrs Campbell · Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies	14 Feb 2005	220
12	The Theology of Sound: A Critique of Orality Jonathan Sterne · Canadian Journal of Communication	5 Aug 2011	214
13	Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry Mary Ellen Brown · Journal of Folklore Research Reviews	30 Jun 2009	208
14	Meter in Poetry: A New Theory Nigel Fabb, Morris Halle	15 Sep 2008	204
15	A Theoretical Perspective Andrea S. Taylor, Jeanette Bressler · Prevention in practice library Book chapter	2000	179
16	THE PASSION OF PERPETUA Brent Donald Shaw · Past & Present	1993	178
17	American Literary History Timo Müller, Frank Kelleter, Klaus Benesch et al. · English and American Studies Book chapterOpen access	2012	164
18	"In General" vs. "It Depends": Some Comments of the Gergen-Schlenker Debate Warren Thorngate · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin	Oct 1976	157
19	Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner Joanna O. Masingila · Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Dec 1998	153
20	How Shall I Eat Thee? Daniel J. Klionsky, Ana María Cuervo, William Augustine Dunn et al. · Autophagy Open access	20 Sep 2007	150
21	David Harvey: A Critical Reader James D. Sidaway · Annals of the Association of American Geographers	Mar 2007	144
22	What Is This Thing Called Lyric? Stephen Burt · Modern Philology Open access	22 Jan 2016	140
23	Art, Practice, and Narrative Noël Carroll · The Monist	1988	138
24	Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/ Modernity/Modernism Susan Stanford Friedman · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks Book chapterOpen access	2009	133
25	Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry Noola K. Griffiths · English Journal of the English Association	Jun 1996	132
26	Emily Dickinson and her Culture: The Soul's Society. Beverly R. Voloshin, Barton Levi St. Armand · American Literature	Dec 1985	121
27	The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory Helen Regueiro Elam, Paul H. Fry · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1985	121
28	READ THE INSTRUCTIONS: DIDACTIC POETRY AND DIDACTIC PROSE Gregory O. Hutchinson · The Classical Quarterly	23 Apr 2009	120
29	A Multicultural Continuum: A Critique of Will Kymlicka’s Ethnic‐Nation Dichotomy Iris Marion Young · Constellations	Apr 1997	112
30	Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory M. H. Abrams	Nov 1989	112
31	“What Is Historical Poetics?” Yopie Prins · Modern Language Quarterly	4 Feb 2016	111
32	FEMININE PIETY AND PERSONAL POTENCY: THE ‘EMANCIPATION’ OF MRS JANE RATCLIFFE Peter Lake · The Seventeenth Century	Jul 1987	106
33	Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. Kenneth Cmiel, David S. Reynolds · Journal of American History	Jun 1996	105
34	Chick‐Lit: The New Woman's Fiction Carol‐Ann Farkas · The Journal of Popular Culture	8 Sep 2006	104
35	POETIC CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTION Christopher Beach · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Open access	2000	100
36	Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg JO ANN B. FINEMAN · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry	Sep 1988	97
37	A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of the Imagination Harald Krebs · ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	2005	93
38	Actual Intentionalism vs. Hypothetical Intentionalism Gary Iseminger · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1996	90
39	‘Ought’ and ‘can’ Michael A. G. Stocker · Australasian Journal of Philosophy	Dec 1971	90
40	THE COLUMBIA HISTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY Jed Rasula · Resources for American Literary Study	1997	88
41	Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America Lisa Malinowski Steinman · Journal of American History	Nov 2013	87
42	II.—KNOWING AND BEING Michael F. D. Polanyi · Mind	1961	86
43	Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather Linda Simon, Judith Fryer · Journal of American History	Mar 1987	86
44	Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time Dianne F. Sadoff · Nineteenth-Century Literature	Sep 2003	84
45	KETT'S REBELLION IN CONTEXT Diarmaid MacCulloch · Past & Present	1979	83
46	Presidential Address 1986. The Triumph of Theory, the Resistance to Reading, and the Question of the Material Base Joseph Hillis Miller · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	May 1987	82
47	Hollow Hopes, Flypaper, and Metaphors Malcolm M Feeley · Law & Social Inquiry	1992	80
48	METAFOLKLORE AND ORAL LITERARY CRITICISM Alan Dundes · The Monist	1966	79
49	Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture Rebecca L. Johnson · ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	2004	79
50	Makin' It, by Keeping It Real: Street Talk, Rap Music, and the Forgotten Entrepreneurship From “the ’Hood” David Sköld, Alf Rehn · Group & Organization Management	16 Jan 2007	79

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