Alphabetically arranged account of poets and analyses of their poetry.

Vol. 8 includes guidelines to poetry explication.

Provides a comprehensive overview of poets, their works, and the poetic genre in general.

"This new edition collects over 200 entries from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition (2012). Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman have selected the terms most common in literary study to create a reference ideal for graduate, MFA, and undergraduate students, and any scholar of poetry. The entries illuminate crucial critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and poetic elements, adding up to a resource that is authoritative and broad in scope, yet convenient for use in literature and writing courses. The book includes a new introduction by Greene and Cushman"--

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: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition--the first new edition in almost twenty years--reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth, offering expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies.

Gives clear, working definitions of the terms that comprise the language of poetry and provides thorough descriptions and examples from classic and contemporary poetry to illustrate the terms.