Dictionary of Poetic Terms
USA), Jack Myers (Director, Creative Writing Program, Southern Methodist University, / Wukasch, Don C.
Formerly The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms, this newly updated version contains over 1, 600 entries on the devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present. To bring it up-to-date, the authors have added fifty new entries and examples. The numerous quotations from poems are especially useful. The Dictionary of Poetic Terms is compact enough for classroom use, but thorough enough to b...