Editing Poetry analysis (section)

===Schools of criticism===
{{Unreferenced section|date=April 2016}}
Poetry analysis is almost as old as poetry itself, with distinguished practitioners going back to figures such as [[Plato]]. At various times and places, groups of like-minded readers and scholars have developed, shared, and promoted specific approaches to poetry analysis.

The '''[[New Criticism]]''' dominated [[England|English]] and [[United States|American]] [[literary criticism]] from the 1920s to the early 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Criticism {{!}} Literary Theory, Textual Analysis & Poetry {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/New-Criticism |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> The New Critical approach insists on the value of [[close reading]] and rejects extra-textual sources. The New Critics also rejected the idea that the work of a critic or analyst is to determine an author's intended meaning (a view formalized by [[W.K. Wimsatt]] and [[Monroe Beardsley]] as the [[intentional fallacy]]). The New Critics prized [[ambiguity]], and tended to favor works that lend themselves to multiple interpretations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2024-02-25 |title=New Criticism |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/new-criticism |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref>

'''[[Reader-response criticism]]''' developed in Germany and the United States as a reaction to New Criticism. It emphasises the reader's role in the development of meaning.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reader-Response Criticism {{!}} Introduction to Literature |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-introliterature/chapter/reader-response-criticism-suggested-replacement/ |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=courses.lumenlearning.com}}</ref>

'''[[Reception theory]]''' is a development of reader-response criticism that considers the public response to a literary work and suggests that this can inform analysis of cultural ideology at the time of the response.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reception Theory {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/reception-theory |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>