The word "theory" has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies. In common usage, people use the word "theory" to signify "conjecture", "speculation", or "opinion." In this sense, "theories" are opposed to "facts" — parts of the world, or claims about the world, that are real or true regardless of what people think.
In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation.
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Music Online - A monthly Web journal of reviews, news, and excerpts from contemporary work in the Expansive Poetry movement. Also includes occasional reviews of music.
Meta Description: [ Home Page for poets and readers interested in new, narrative poetry that's also in meter and form. ]
Reviews - Book reviews and more at the home page of Bernadette bernie Geyer.
Meta Description: [ Book reviews. Monthly online zine featuring
reviews of fiction, non-fiction, short story
collections, poetry collections, and literary
journals. ]
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A Total Absence of Critical Acumen - An article by South African poet-critic Peter Horn lamenting the South African reviewing scene--particularly the Southern African Review of Books.
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A Volcano in the Night of Oppression: Reflections on the Poetry of Mongane Wally Serote - An essay by Peter Horn on the poetry of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote.
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Against National Poetry Month As Such - Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.
American Literary Review - An academic journal that includes poetry reviews.
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Aristotle's Poetics - Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.
Babel - A progressive literary journal examining multicultural ideas and literary criticism.
BeeHive - A hypertext hypermedia literary journal.
Meta Description: [ BeeHive - hypertext/hypermedia literary journal ]
Callaloo - Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia - A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.
Canadian Women Poets: Two Reviews by E. Russell Smith - Reviews of Stephanie Bolster's White Stone: The Alice Poems and Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow.
Critical Inquiry - An academic journal relating to critical analysis of the literary arts.
Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady - An article that examines the free-for-all atmosphere of performance poetry.
Meta Description: [ Perhaps poetry slams and open-mike nights would be the primary mode of expression in a more inclusionary and active culture. However... ]
Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry - A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.
Meta Description: [ Aberbach, Bloch, DuVal, Foster, Gill, Heaney, Lawrence, Le Guin, Molasky, Paterson, Rhodios, Tzu, Yi Mun-yol ]
DiversityBay: Book Reviews - Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
Meta Description: [ DiversityBay: gay, lesbian and diverse info network: Books and reviews. ]
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earthstepper/the ocean is very shallow by Seitlhlamo Motsapi - A review by Peter Horn.
Electric Acorn: The Journal of the Dublin Writers' Workshop - Online literary quarterly based in Dublin. Includes poetry, criticism and reviews.
Meta Description: [ Irish Poetry, Prose and Short Stories from the members of Dublin's Oldest active writers group. Features the online literary quarterly Electric Acorn. ]
Electronic Book Review - An online literary review.
Electronic Poetry Review - Reviews of contemporary poetry.
IndiaStar Review of Books - A literary review site for Indian writing.
Meta Description: [ IndiaStar Review of Books features book reviews,
articles, short fiction, poems, and publishers' press releases ]
It Is, As It's Elsewhere - Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's To a Contemporary Bunkshooter.
Meta Description: [ The hardest question in poetry is to distinguish poetry from what isn't. The position of Aesthetic Realism is that there is a difference between what is poetry and what isn't, and it doesn't come from a subjective situation or how one sees. There is something present in every instance of poetry. ]
Lagniappe - An academic journal of poetry and poetry reviews. Also contains essays on poetics.
League of Canadian Poets - Home page of the League, with reviews of current poetry.
Lexical Lattice - An analytical overview of a poem done in experimental hypertext form.
Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten - An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.
Meta Description: [ Brian Patten: English Literature Essay. Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten ]
Lost Poets of the Great War - A site featuring analyses of poetry from the First World War.
Luminarium - One of the finest collections of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)
Meta Description: [ A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. ]
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Maqabane (comrades) poems by Tatamkhulu Afrika - A review by Peter Horn.
Metaphysical Reviews - Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.
Meta Description: [ Richard Fuller's reviews of poetry ]
Modern American Poetry - Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American Poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
Modern Poetry - Studies of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry which focus on the modernist shift in style and subject matter.
Monsoon: South Asian Literature and Culture - A resource for critical studies of South Asian writing and the South Asian Diaspora.
Offcourse: A Literary Journey - An online literary journal featuring critical essays, poetry, and book reviews.
Meta Description: [ Literary journal publishes short fiction poetry essays reviews in english, french & spanish. ]
Online Literary Criticism Collection - The Internet Public Library's enormous database of literary criticism.
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Other Places by Sarah Ruden - A review by Anette Horn.
Plagiarist.com Poetry Articles - Articles about poets, poems, and poetry in general. Includes book reviews, student guides, and articles on writing poetry.
Meta Description: [ Plagiarist.com: A searchable archive of classic and contemporary poetry, articles about poetry, analysis, and reviews. ]
Poetry Book Review - Reviews of contemporary and classic English or English-language poetry collections.
Meta Description: [ ,Reviews of English-language poetry collections. - dewey decimal 821.9811.6 ]
Poetry Criticism of Daniele DiGiacomo - A selection of critical papers by Daniele DiGiacomo on poetry ranging from Old English to Sylvia Plath.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to ]
Poetry Magic - A resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry.
Meta Description: [ Modern poetry: an extensive guide to the theory and craft of writing poetry. ]
Poetry of the Eighties: Deconstructive Readings - An article on the poetry of the Eighties in Finland, using deconstructive close-reading. Also, three articles upon the subject in Finnish.
Meta Description: [ Immo Pekkarinen: kotisivut
muodostuvat etupäässä runouden tulkinnasta, menetelmänä
dekonstruoiva lähiluku. 80-luvun runouden analyysien kautta pyritään
etenemään aikakauden älyllisten tendenssien ja umpikujien
hahmottamiseen.
Myös kirjallisia tuotteitani eri
ajankohdilta; lisäksi muita aihepii... ]
Poetry Snark - Attacks on contemporary American poets. Featuring Where Are They Know? Lost Poets of the 70s.
Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s - An essay on the Rebel Poets of the 1950s by Steven Watson.
Representative Poetry Online - An on-line anthology covering the entire history of English poetry. A teaching resource hosted by the University of Toronto.
Seeker Magazine - A forward-looking literary magazine in search of the new, the unique and the bold.
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Selected Poems 1961-1994 by Patrick Cullinan - A review by Peter Horn.
Sonnet Central - A large archive of sonnets and sonnet criticism from around the world.
Meta Description: [ An archive of English sonnets, commentary, audio, and relevant web links. ]
Standards: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies - A journal for the critical study of how cultural diversity impacts literature.
Meta Description: [ The first international journal of multicultural studies on the world wide web. ]
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century - William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale, looks at the change in poetry after the Victorian era, up until about 1918. British, Irish, and American poets are studied in this book.
Meta Description: [ Download the free eBook: The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps ]
The Art Bin - An online arts journal coming out of Sweden.
Meta Description: [ A Swedish/international forum for art, literature, music, cultural politics. Articles, artwork and rare source texts. In English, French, German, or Swedish. Appr. four times a year. ]
The Art of English Poetry - Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.
The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages - An archive of interviews, readings, reviews and articles on poets and poetry - past and present.
The Barcelona Review - An international review of contemporary writing.
Meta Description: [ An electronic, bilingual, bi-monthly, English-Spanish Review of Contemporary Fiction, REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE NARRATIVA BREVE
BREVE CONTEMPORANEA also in Catalan ]
The Genealogy of Postmodernism - An essay by Albert Gelpi.
The Man with the Hoe: Labor and Society Debated - Edwin Markham's poem and the debate it sparked.
Meta Description: [ Edwin Markham's 1899 poem The Man with the Hoe and reviews and criticism from the debate it sparked on issues ranging from poverty and the dignity of labor to the effects of imperialism and the trusts. ]
The Morning After - An essay on today's poetry and how we feel about, the morning after National Poetry Month. At goodreports.net.
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The Rivers Which Connect Us to the Past by Peter Horn - A review by Andries Walter Oliphant.
The Romanticism of Charlotte Turner Smith: Plurality of Vision - A research Paper by C. Fernandez on the multicultural aspects of the romantic poetry of Charlotte Turner Smith.
Those Who Lie Like Truth - Senior thesis comparing modern and Classical Latin confessional poetry.
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University of Cape Town's Poetry Web - A resource site for material relating to South and Southern African literature. Administered by Peter Horn.
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Voices and Visions: 13 Great American Poets - A variety of media resources - including audio and video files - relating to 13 modern American poets: Bishop, Crane, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, Lowell, Moore, Plath, Pound, Stevens, Whitman and Williams.
Whose New American Poetry? - Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.
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