Through three editions over more than four decades The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics" has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive & authoritative reference for students scholars & poets on all aspects of its subject: history movements genres prosody rhetorical devices critical terms & more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised & 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 & cultural studies providing up-to-date coverage & giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words & more than 1 000 entries the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth & depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15 000 words offering a more thorough treatment
- including expert synthesis & indispensable bibliographies
- than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised & updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students scholars & poets. More than 250 new entries cover recent terms movements & related topics. Broader international coverage
Includes:: articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations regions & languages. Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western & developing worlds. It covers updated bibliographies & cross-references. It is new easier-to-use page design. It is fully indexed for the first time."