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Poetry Dictionary
Binding: Paperback
Author: John Drury
Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books
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Average Rating: 5.0
Total Customer Reviews: 7
List Price: $14.99
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Sales Rank: 340799
Product Description
A comprehensive collection of poetry terms, John Drury's The Poetry Dictionary is a classic reference for students and teachers alike. With all the terms needed to effectively discuss the craft, this new and revised edition is: -Value-priced with the same helpful information as the first edition, but now in a more affordable and handy package -Packed with examples from classic and contemporary poetry to illustrate the terms at work -Recommended and with a foreword by Dana Gioia, head of the National Endowment for the Arts Both comprehensive and concise, The Poetry Dictionary is a unique and useful anthology of the art.
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Product Review Summary: the best I could find Asked to provide a reference book for a grad stu who lacked acquaintance with poetry, but was taking a first course in it, I bought and read several of the highest rated books. John Drury's was far and away the best, providing an alphabetical arrangement of glossary, and definitions supported by multiple, clear (and pleasingly unusual) examples. Prosody, always a tricky subject, made as clear as possible, contemporary song lyrics (see SONG) treated with intelligent respect -- it also simmers with an infectious delight in all kinds of poems. I bought another copy for the student, so I could dip often into this book for pleasure, as well as enlightenment.
Product Review Summary: Encourages While Educating Poets From Abecedarium (a poem arranged according to the alphabet) to Word (the basic unit of the sentence) The Poetry Dictionary takes us on a journey of discovery.
Along the way we encounter such familiar terms as Poem, Carol and Muse and unfamiliar terms like Drottkvaett (an Old Norse stanzaic form) and Synecdoche (a figure of speech in which a part of something indicates the whole). We find old standards penned by the likes of William Shakespeare and Robert Browning but also see lesser-known verse by Woodrow Wilson and Agha Shahid Ali.
Such a book cannot, however, be created by a single man. The acknowledgments make it clear that many individuals contribute to the dictionary. Even Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Lord Byron pitch in, providing translations for Francois Villon's "The Ballad of Dead Ladies" and Dante Alighieri's "Francesca of Rimini" respectively.
Throughout the dictionary, related terms are grouped into major entries and subordinate terms are placed within larger entries. Terms that appear elsewhere as individual entries are proceeded by asterisks, creating a web of connections that shows how the elements of poetry are intertwined.
Each entry provides a pronunciation guide and a definition in the first paragraph. Additional paragraphs give more information.
Many entries contain one or more model poems that illustrate poetic forms or devices. Most of the examples are whole poems, but some are excerpts from longer works.
The Poetry Dictionary may be read as a guide to the practice and history of verse or as an annotated anthology of model poems.
Product Review Summary: Practical and useful Drury's book is a practical and useful book for not only the writing poetry, but for teaching poetry. His definitions and examples are practical, clear, and unaffected, unlike some of the other more convoluted handbooks. A definite must have for any poet or teacher of poetry
Product Review Summary: Essential It's comprehensive: soil to sky.
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Product Review Summary: A fun read, a great resource This text is beautifully organized; it's intriguing, and leads the reader on from reference to reference, poem to poem. It's littered with examples and a wide variety of poems, citing old works as well as contemporary reworkings of old forms, Neruda and Keats under Odes, Passerat (16th century) and Weldon Kees (20th century) under Villanelles. Definitions are clear and easy to understand. A fun read, a great resource.
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