Formerly The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms, this newly 
updated version contains over 1,600 entries on the devices, 
techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the 
Classical period to the present. To bring it up-to-date, the authors 
have added fifty new entries and examples. The Dictionary of 
Poetic Terms is compact enough for classroom use, but thorough 
enough to be the definitive reference handbook for poets and 
scholars, and the many writers who are both.
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JACK MYERS is director of the creative writing program at 
Southern Methodist University and also teaches in the Vermont 
College M.F.A. Program in Writing. He lives in Mesquite, Texas. 
DON C. WUKASCH, M.D., lives in Houston, where he practiced 
medicine for twenty-five years.



What people are saying about this book

“The liveliest, most imaginative and most comprehensive handbook 
of poetry available. . . . Most important for students, the Dictionary 
of Poetic Terms cuts closest to the bone of contemporary poetry.”—
T.V.F. Brogan, editor, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and 
Poetics

“[The Dictionary is] the most extensive and all-inclusive reference 
work of its kind. The Dictionary . . . in its swoop and scope ranges 
from ancient Greek to contemporary American poetic practice and 
takes its examples from the long dead to the still living and quite 
young. The essay entries. . . are little gems.”—Laurence Perrine,
author, Sound and Sense