An authoritative and comprehensive guide to poetry throughout the world
An essential handbook for literary studies
In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of...
The most important poetry reference for more than four decades鈥攏ow fully updated for the twenty-first century
