Description: The definitive reference guide to poetry and poetic terms, with more than 1,600 entries on the devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present.
Review Quotes: "The liveliest, most imaginative and most comprehensive handbook of poetry available. ... No other handbook offers such a wide range of concise entries.... Most important for students, the Dictionary of Poetic Terms cuts closest to the bone of contemporary poetry."