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Free shipping for non-business customers when ordering books at De Gruyter Online. Please find details to our shipping fees here. Print Flyer Recommend to Librarian. More options … Overview Content Contact Persons. Overview Aims and Scope Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without.
Stephen Cushman is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Jahan Ramazani is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a stupendous work. What makes it unique and extremely valuable is the exhaustive entries.
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Running into pages, in single volume, this is a huge contribution to the study of poetry and poetics. Any student of literature and linguistics should have a copy as it introduces the reader to every nuance of poetry, in its finest. A marvelous work indeed. It's a vast compendium of poetic lore, terminology, technique, and history with an astutely chosen set of contributors.
At pages, I am still cruising the book and wishing I had the digital edition as well. This is a work to dip into at any page for a wealth of detailed and often absorbingly arcane information. This edition is somewhat drier, but places itself more firmly in the academy: It is brave of the editors to set out their stall in this fashion, and might go some way to soothing the tempers of those minded to go hrrumph when contemplating the existence of three separate entries dealing with poetry written by or about those who love people of the same gender.
Or one entry on cowboy poetry. If there is one thing we learn above all else from this book, it is that poetry is something people do everywhere, and have been doing ever since there was language. Being almost half as long again as its predecessor, the fourth edition might be said to be suffering from a kind of university-driven inflation, of the kind which would intimidate or alienate the general reader — the very list of contributors attests to a whole load of universities whose existence may be news to you.
Although all are respectable, and the list is perforce weighted towards the Ivy League — which is nothing to complain about. But then there has been an awful lot of book-larnin' even in the last two decades, and if the last entry in the edition, Zulu poetry, simply redirected us to "African poetry", is there really anyone who is going to complain that it now has its own entry? We even get to read some: And if the entries themselves, being restricted to information tend to be dry although it is lovely to be reminded in the relevant entry that one of the uses of allusion, according to Christopher Ricks, is to assuage the poet's loneliness , it is because they have to be; there is much to say I also like the way certain words are abbreviated — hist, contemp, Gr, etc — just as they would have been in your school notes.
If you are a writer, and are serious about learning not only about American poetry but literature and the poetry of the world, this book is indispensable! Cuddon, Fourth Editions, Blackwell Publications. This is the bible of all bibles and is a must for anyone who likes reading dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. It has 1, pages of information about literature and poetry and describes hundreds of poetry movements around the world. If I had a bible, this would be it! Jun 16, Lois rated it it was amazing.
A great deal of work six years in fact, although many, many more, if the combined multiple years of experience and scholarship of the contributors to this grand volume are taken into consideration has gone into the compilation of this comprehensive guide to the vast field of Poetics, which embraces both the theoretical and the practical study of poetry.
This volume, which is the fourth edition of this leading work, is founded, as well as much expanded, on the three preceding noteworthy edition A great deal of work six years in fact, although many, many more, if the combined multiple years of experience and scholarship of the contributors to this grand volume are taken into consideration has gone into the compilation of this comprehensive guide to the vast field of Poetics, which embraces both the theoretical and the practical study of poetry.
This volume, which is the fourth edition of this leading work, is founded, as well as much expanded, on the three preceding noteworthy editions.
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The distinguished team of editors that refined and brought the previous work that had been done on this insightful and leading work completely up-to-date personally evaluated each and every entry in the preceding edition, which was brought out almost two decades ago, in , in order to see which should be retained, which amended with information that had since become available, and which should be entirely replaced with more relevant and contemporary insights, either on long-standing topics and issues, or on ones that had emerged during the time period concerned.
An outstanding feature of this work has been the amount of collaboration that has contributed towards it remaining a key work in the extensive field of poetry and Poetics. Not only have the latest contributors to this volume worked jointly on a number of the entries, but previous contributors have, on many occasions, also had their say, and have been fully acknowledged for so doing, on how, where relevant, certain entries could be made more extensive and more contemporaneous.
Of the more than 1, entries that fill the pages of this exceptionally well-written volume, entries are completely new, attesting to the significant extent of strides in the field of Poetics that have occurred over the last two decades, including the number of new schools of thought that have emerged during this period.
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The coverage of international poetries and movements, and the effect of new digital media on the development of poetry and its critique, has also been broadened and made more intensive. In addition, the brand-new index, which was lacking in the previous three editions of this magnum opus, provides access to the subtopics contained within the larger entries.
The entries that the Encyclopedia contains, in alphabetical order, consist of the following types: In short, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is to be thoroughly recommended, not only for its broad sweep of history and for its worldwide coverage with much additional focus on the poetry and Poetics of Latin America, East and South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe , but also for its clear organisation and presentation that is in keeping with sound academic principles.
Dec 18, Victoria Nicholson rated it it was amazing. I have read much but not all. I keep a copy of it to use off and on like a dictionary of literary terms and movements but specific to poetry. Oct 20, Vasile rated it it was amazing. Great source of information and reference! Sep 28, Kendall rated it really liked it.
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