The Poetry Dictionary

FIRST EDITION

Story Press, 1995 (hardcover, 326 pages)

A number of entries and poems in the first edition have been dropped

from the second.  New poems and entries have replaced them.

 

 

 

 


 


ENTRIES CHANGED TO DIFFERENT NAMES IN THE SECOND EDITION

Alphabet Poem à Abecedarium

Emblematic Verse à Pattern Poem

Figures of Classical Rhetoric à Rhetorical Devices

Letter Poem à Verse Letter

Painting Poem à Ekphrastic Poetry

 

NEW ENTRIES IN THE SECOND EDITION

Anagram

Elliptical Poets

Epistrophe

Fragmentation

Invented Forms and Stanzas

Juxtaposition

Negative Capability

Numbered Sections

Quintain (the first half of the old Cinquain entry, with one-stanza excerpts from several poems)

Rann (three paragraphs from the old Welsh Poetic Forms entry)

Repetend

Repeton

Sentence Sounds

Setting

Verset

 

NEW POEMS IN THE SECOND EDITION

Agha Shahid Ali (Ghazal)

Julia Alvarez (Sonnet)

John Berryman (Invented Forms and Stanzas)

Elizabeth Bishop (Villanelle)

James Cummins (Sestina)

Rita Dove (Villanelle)

Louise Glück (Dramatic Monologue)

Jorie Graham (Fragmentation)

Linda Gregerson (Fragment)

Seamus Heaney (Figurative Language)

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (Ekphrastic Poetry)

Rodney Jones (Free Verse)

Li-Young Lee (Dialogue)

Mark Levine (Elliptical Poets)

N. Scott Momaday (Rhyme Scheme)

Pat Mora (Numbered Sections)

Paul Muldoon (Terza Rima)

William Shakespeare, (Epistrophe)

Sir Philip Sidney (Madrigal)

Wallace Stevens (Response)

Louis Simpson (Voice)

William Carlos Williams (Response)

Greg Williamson (Invented Forms and Stanzas)

 

ENTRIES DELETED FROM THE SECOND EDITION

Animal Poem

Childhood Poem

Love Poem

Omar Stanza (incorporated into the "Rubai" entry)

Plant Poem

Place

War Poetry

 

POEMS DELETED FROM THE SECOND EDITION

Archilochos (War Poetry)

Charles Baudelaire (Pantoum)

William Blake (Childhood Poem)

William Blake (City Poem)

Robert Burns (Song)

John Clare (Animal Poem)

James Cummins (Villanelle)

John Donne (Response)—one stanza retained in "Response"

Jim Harrison (Ghazal)

H.D. (Fragment)

Laurie Henry (Place)

John Keats (Love Poem)

John Keats (Sonnet)

Christopher Marlowe (Pastoral)—one stanza retained in "Response"

John Milton (Sonnet)

Sir Walter Raleigh (Response)—one stanza retained in "Response"

E.A. Robinson (Villanelle)

William Shakespeare (War Poetry)

Edith Sitwell (Abstract Poetry)

Theodore Roethke (Plant Poem)

Walt Whitman (War Poetry))

William Wordsworth (Blank Verse)

William Wordsworth (City Poem)