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Anthology
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Versification
Corn, Alfred. The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1997.
Fenton, James. An Introduction to English Poetry. London: Viking, 2002.
Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Rev. ed. New York: Random House, 1979.
Gross, Harvey Seymour, ed. The Structure of Verse: Modern Essays on Prosody. Rev. ed. New York: Ecco Press, 1979.
Gummere, Francis Barton. A Handbook of Poetics, for Students of English Verse. 1902. Boston: Adamant Media Corporation, 2001.
Hollander, John. Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse. Enl. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Lennard, John. The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Oliver, Mary. Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Padgett, Ron, ed. The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. 2nd ed. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2007.
Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Russell and Russell, 1961.
Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland, eds. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Turco, Lewis. The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986.
Poetry
Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. (CL 808.1 E11H)
Nowottny, Winifred. The Language Poets Use. 2nd ed. London: Athlon Press, 1965.
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Ed. by Ian Hamilton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Eds. Alex Preminger, Terry V. F. Brogan, and Frank J. Warnke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.
Wainwright, Jeffrey. Poetry: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2004.
Specialized Dictionaries
Jobes, Gertrude. Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Symbols. 3 vols. New York: Scarecrow, 1962.
Foreign Words and Phrases
Bliss, Alan Joseph. A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases in Current English. London: Routledge, 1983.
The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases.
Eds. Mary Varchaver and Frank Ledlie Moore. New York: Wiley, 2001.
The Facts On File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. Eds. Martin H. Manser and David H. Pickering. New York: Checkmark Books, 2002.
A New Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations: Comprising Extracts from the Works of the Great Writers, Idioms, Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, Technical Words and Terms. 1902. Ed. Hugh Percy Jones. Boston: Adamant Media Corporation, 2006.
The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. Ed. Jennifer Speake. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
Slang
A Dictionary of Slang (links)
Anthologies
Dacey, Philip, and David Jauss, eds. Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.
Journals
Topics
poetry in Ancient Egypt
Deaf Poetry
Melodies Unheard | Peter Cook (see excerpts from Flying Words Project performances) | Sign Language: ASL Poetry | Slope ASL special ed. | A Deaf Poetics Part I, II, III | Deaf Jam | ASL Poetry |
poetry in prisons
Burmese poetry
poetry and war
poetry in ancient China
poetry and therapy
poetry and children
poetry in Botswana
poetry is reality
poetry is fantasy
Poetry and Science
"Wright-ing" Prompt: Concrete Poetry | Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) | Science Poem of the Week |
poetry and politics
poetry and religion
poetry in Bengal
Poetry and Music
Explore: Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy |
commercialization of poetry
poetry and theory
Latin poetry
Homer
Madhusudan Dutta
Silver Age of Russian poetry
future of poetry
riddle poem, enigmata
Competitions
Keats-Shelley Prize (2007 announcement, noticeboard)
Inaugurated in 1998 to reward excellence in writing on Romantic themes. Entries are invited annually in two categories: poems, on a theme chosen by the judges, and essays on any aspect of the work or life of Keats or Shelley. Although it is a competition open to all, it is promoted strongly to the universities and is launched at the beginning of each academic year.
The M.L. Ananchanok Prize is awarded annually to original unpublished creative writing in English by a Thai citizen. See details.
Links
Words Without Borders ("The Online Magazine for International Literature")
Poetry Links (links to poems, poets, resources)
Poets on Poets ("audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world")
Poetry Class: A Fun Read (links to some good poetry sites)
Poetry Matters (on-line poetry magazine)
The Poetry Library (poems, resources, magazines, competitions, education, reading groups, exhibitions)
The British Library: Modern British and Irish Poetry (Part 1)
Open Yale Courses: Modern Poetry with Professor Langdon Hammer
The Wolf (poetry magazine of "new poetry by emerging and established writers)
Poetry Soup ("The FREE International Poetry Community")
From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry
The Wolf (poetry magazine of "new poetry by emerging and established writers)
Artists without Frontiers (includes artists in music, the performing arts, the visual arts, and writing)
"The Persistence of Poetry" by Peter Hawes (In an era of sound bites and instant communication, a hard-core group of faculty and students still subscribes to the close reading of great verse as a way to help fathom the world around them.)
Poetry Daily ("An anthology of contemporary poetry offering new poems from books, magazines and journals currently in print, as well as an archive and daily news.")
Magma Poetry Online (companion website to the contemporary poetry magazine Magma Poetry)
Like Waiting for April (blog with tons of poems by a great variety of authors)
The Academy of American Poets (poets, poems, audio, essays, interviews, reading recommendations, on writing)
The Poetry Archive (poets, poems, historic recordings, guided tours, resources)
The Poetry Archive: For Students (poet in residence blog where you can write in comments and questions, other poetry websites, how to get the best of the archive, listening to poetry, historic recordings)
Representative Poetry On-line (wonderful resource site, includes poets, poems, timeline, glossary, bibliography, and more)
Poetry Out Loud (video [11:40 min.], sound clips, and photo gallery of the 2006 national finalists; the video captures wonderfully the atmosphere of the competition with comments about what poetry means to the different contestants)
BBC Poetry Please (Roger McGough presents listener-requested poems, discussion of poetry, audio by various readers)
Analyzing Poetry (pdf file)
Favorite Poem Project (interesting video collection of Americans reading and talking about their favorite poem and a bit about themselves)
Poetry Magazine (hundreds of poems, poet interviews, link to brief bio archive, podcasts on poetry, audio files where you can listen to poems being read)
Erin's Poetry Page (nice collection of poetry, informal and friendly introduction to well-known poets and poems)
Poetry 180 ("How to Read a Poem Out Loud," 180 poems)
Poetry: Introduction by Bernardine Evaristo
Poets' Corner (user-friendly, photos)
"A Field Guide to the Poetics of the '90s" by R. S. Gwynn
"21st Century Modernism: Introduction" by Marjorie Perloff
"The Genealogy of Postmodernism: Contemporary American Poetry" by Albert Gelpi (long article)
"The Mystique of the Difficult Poem" by Steve Kowit
Poetry Venues (map of world poetry events)
The Rialto (poetry magazine)
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath. Eds. Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Mediafusion, 2001. (book and 3 audio CDs)
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