Poetry handbook : a dictionary of terms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Terminology.

Literature.

English language--Terms and phrases.

English language.

Literary form--Terminology.

Literary form.

Poetics.

Criticism--Terminology.

Criticism.

Poetics--Terminology.

Genre:

Terminology.

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Wilkins, Sophie (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Wilkins, Thurman (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

181 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

New [that is 2d] edition, revised and enlarged.

Place of Publication:

New York : Funk & Wagnalls, [1962]

Summary:

Alphabetically arranged, the special vocabulary of poetryis easily accessible to the student, reader, or practicing poet. The definitions of poetic forms and techniques, with illustrative models taken from the ancients to the avant-garde, are particularly helpful.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "For Sophie and Thurman hoping that they will find some pleasure in the addenda, and with every good wish, Babette [...] 1962" on front flyleaf.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has "private mailing card" with ms. note addressed to Mrs. Thurman Wilkins/Sophie laid in at front.

Other Format:

Online version: Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982. Poetry handbook.

OCLC:

326219