Literary Criticism: Poetry

In this reference book, entries are arranged alphabetically by poet. Each Poetry Criticism entry covers the poet's major or most commonly read works and discusses his or her most prominent themes and poetic techniques. Entries contain an introductory biographical sketch, excerpts of critical analyses of major poems and sources for additional reading.

Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.

Introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, distinctive, and influential poems.Appendixes include a general bibliography, a list of poets by geographic region, and a list of Nobel Prize winners.

Identifies the author of a poem or the anthologies in which it can be found when only a title, first line, or last line is known.

Devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the classical period to the present.