poetics

A reference guide for poets and writers, listing thousands of rhyming words, arranged by number of syllables in alphabetical format, and including information on patterns of rhythm, definitions and illustrations of each of the regular meters, and examples of lyric poetry forms.

Discussions of poetry alternate with poems by writers including John Donne, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T S Eliot, e e cummings, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, W H Auden, Theodore Roethke, Dylan Thomas, May Swenson, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others.

A collection of poems illustrating poetic tools, terms, and techniques.

A complete guide to the technique, forms, and rhyming words of English poetry.

A selection of poems and prose writings by American-born English poet, critic, and playwright, T. S. Eliot.