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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.
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. The index alone is worth the price of admission. As a kid and as the kid I still am I read through dictionaries and encyclopedias, a to z; this book holds that same kind of transfixing fascination.
It also shows how new encyclopaedias I prefer that spelling can remain relevant in the wake of Wiki.
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.
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.
I have read much but not all. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. For example; I love how the book discusses the poetry of a people and ties it to their history--I mean, I could read this book for the historical context of a particular body of ethnic or linguistic poetry alone, but of course, there is plenty of poetry in here, too. Please find details to our shipping fees here. How, then, he would love this book.
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!
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Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most . The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Fourth Edition Roland Greene, editor in chief; Stephen Cushman, general editor. Clare Cavanagh, Jahan.
As these things go, it might not be relatively long — the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians edition , for example, runs to 28 more volumes than this one — but you'd think twice before taking it on holiday, and if you dropped it on your foot you'd need a Dyson vacuum cleaner to clear up all the fragments of bone. Pushing 1, pages, excluding index, and, boasts the back cover, containing more than 1,, words; I am inclined to take the back cover at its word.
The previous edition of this reference work, which came out 20 years ago, is a slim volume by comparison. Its preface, too, had a certain succinctness: 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.