This is a book full of wonderful poetry portrayed in many different stylish forms including old and established well known ones along side many new ones that have been created by Poets of today. Each style is shown in full detail plus varying contents that will appeal to all, making this book a very good style learning album plus a great poetry read to treasure and thoroughly enjoy...

Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.

37 different poetic forms (complete with definitions, examples, guidelines, and a place for students to write their own) show the power of language and how to use it! Written by a master teacher, author, educator, and poet, this is the how-to poetry book ??????

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

A handbook of poetics discussing all aspects of verse composition & describing over 300 verse forms with examples & schematic diagrams.