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Books about Poetry
The Dictionary of Poetic Terms by J. Myers
Call Number: PN1042 .M93 2003; Reference Collection -- First Floor
ISBN: 1574411667
Publication Date: 2003
Contains over 1,600 entries on the devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present.
Tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Shines a light on the richness and variation of the world's poems-and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.
A spellbinding work of literary history, it reveals how poets engaged with the most important issues and events of the twentieth century. Bringing together poets from times and places as diverse as Tsarist Russia, 1960s Harlem, and Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Burnside reveals how poetry responded to the dramatic events of the century while shaping our impressions of them.
Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry by M. Willhardt (Editor)
Call Number: PN1271 .W46 2000; Reference Collection -- First Floor
ISBN: 0415163552
Publication Date: 2000
This reference provides biographical information on poets of the 20th century and succinct critical accounts of their work.