© Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. Topical List of Entries Terms and Concepts Genres and Forms Periods, Schools, and Movements National, Regional, and Diasporic Poetries Poetry in Culture and Society Terms and Concepts absorption accent accentual-syllabic verse accentual verse acephalous address adonic adynaton aeolic aestheticism affect affective fallacy afflatus agudeza alam . kāra alcaic alcmanic verse aleatory poetics alexandrine allaeostropha alliteration allusion ambiguity amphibrach amplification anaclasis anacoluthon anacreontic anacrusis anadiplosis anagram analogy. See METAPHOR; SIMILE; SYMBOL anapest anaphora anceps anthimeria anthology anticlimax antimetabole antispast antistrophe antithesis antonomasia antropofagia aphaeresis apocope aporia aposiopesis apostrophe appreciation archaism archetype archilochian argument arsis and thesis arte mayor arte menor artifice, poetic Arzamas asclepiad assonance asynarteton asyndeton attention audience. See PERFORMANCE; READER; READER RESPONSE; RHETORIC AND POETRY aureate diction autonomy auto sacramental autotelic auxesis bacchius ballad meter, hymn meter bard barzelletta. See FROTTOLA AND BARZELLETTA bathos beat binary and ternary bob and wheel book, poetic boustrophedon bouts-rimés bridge broken rhyme burden Burns stanza bylina caccia cacophony cadence caesura cancionero/cancioneiro canon cante jondo canticum and diverbium canto canzone canzoniere capitolo carmen carmina figurata carpe diem catachresis catalexis catalog catharsis cauda caudate sonnet cento chain rhyme character, Theophrastan chastushka chiasmus choliambus choriamb chorus Christabel meter Chuci classical meters in modern languages classical poetics classicism clavis cliché climax close reading close rhyme closure cobla codework cognitive poetics colon colonial poetics commonplace composition. See ORAL-FORMULAIC THEORY; POET; RHETORIC AND POETRY; VERSIFICATION composition by field concatenation conceit conceptismo concision concrete universal connotation and denotation consonance constraint conte dévot contests, poetic. See POETIC CONTESTS; POETRY SLAM contrafactum convention copla coq-à-l’âne corona coronach correlative verse cossante © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xvi TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES counterpoint counterpoint rhythm coupe couplet courtly love cretic criticism cross rhyme cuaderna vía cueca chilena cultural criticism curtal sonnet cybertext cynghanedd cywydd dactyl dactylo-epitrite dansa dead metaphor decadence decasyllable décima decir decorum defamiliarization deixis demotion descort dhvani diaeresis dialogue diction difficulty dimeter dindshenchas dipodism, dipodic verse discordia concors dissociation of sensibility dissonance distich dithyramb ditty divan dizer dochmiac dol’nik double dactyl dozens duration dyfalu eclogue écriture eisteddfod elegiac distich elegiac stanza elision ellipsis emotion empathy and sympathy enargeia end-stopped en(h)oplian enjambment envelope envoi epanalepsis epenthesis epiploke epitrite epode equivalence estilística estribillo ethnopoetics ethos euphony evaluation exegesis exemplum exoticism explication explication de texte expression eye rhyme fancy fatras feigning figura figuration fili flyting folia foot formalism formula fourteener fractal verse fragment Frankfurt school frottola and barzelletta furor poeticus gai saber gaita gallega galliamb(us) generative metrics generic rhyme Geneva school genius Gesellschaftslied glosa glossolalia glyconic grammatical rhyme Greek Anthology greguería Guslar haibun Hebraism Hellenism. See GREEK POETRY; HEBRAISM hemiepes hemistich hendecasyllable hendiadys heptameter heptasyllable hermeneutics hermeticism heroic couplet heterogram heterometric heteronym hexameter hiatus hieroglyph historicism homodyne and heterodyne homoeoteleuton hovering accent hudibrastic verse huitain humors hypallage hyperbaton hyperbole hypermetric hypogram hypometric hyporchema hypotaxis and parataxis hysteron proteron iambe iambic iambic shortening iconicity iconology ictus identical rhyme ideogram idyll image imagery imagination imitation incantation incremental repetition indeterminacy influence in medias res In Memoriam stanza inscape and instress inspiration intensity intention intentional fallacy internal rhyme interpretation intertextuality intuition invective invention ionic irony isochronism or isochrony © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. TERMS AND CONCEPTS isocolon and parison isometric ithyphallic je ne sais quoi jitanjáfora jongleur kenning kharja Kokinshū laisse lauda laureate. See POET LAUREATE leich leonine rhyme, verse letrilla line lipogram lira litotes logaoedic mal mariée Man’yōshū masculine and feminine matrix measure meiosis melopoeia, phanopoeia, logopoeia metalepsis or transumption metaphor meter metonymy metrici and rhythmici metron mime mimesis minstrel molossus monk’s tale stanza monody monometer monorhyme monostich mora mosaic rhyme mote motif muse myth naïve-sentimental narrator. See PERSONA; VOICE national poetry nature Natureingang near rhyme negative capability neoterics New Criticism New Historicism Nibelungenstrophe novas (rimadas) number(s) numerology objective correlative obscurity octave octonarius octosyllable odl Omar Khayyám quatrain Onegin stanza onomatopoeia open form oral-formulaic theory oral poetry organicism originality ornament ottava rima oxymoron paeon palindrome parabasis paraclausithyron paradox paralipsis parallelism paraphrase, heresy of parenthesis paroemiac paronomasia partimen pathetic fallacy pathos patronage pause pentameter penthemimer performance period periphrasis persona personification phalaecean phonestheme pie quebrado pitch plain style ploce plot poet poète maudit poetess poetic contests poetic function poetic license poetic madness poetics, Western poet laureate poetry reading poiēsis xvii point of view. See PERSONA; PLOT; VOICE polyptoton polysemy polysyndeton postcolonial poetics poststructuralism poulter’s measure préciosité pregunta presence priamel priapea proceleusmatic promotion pronunciation prose rhythm prosimetrum prosodic feature analysis of verse prosody prosopopoeia pseudo-statement pun. See PARONOMASIA punctuation pure poetry pyrrhic pythiambic qit. a¶ quantity quatrain querelle des anciens et des modernes quintain reader reader response reception theory. See READER RESPONSE recitation refrain refrán refrein rejet relative stress principle remate renga repetition representation resolution responsion reversed consonance reverse rhyme rhapsode rhopalic verse rhyme rhyme counterpoint rhyme-prose rhyme royal rhyme scheme rhythm rhythmic figures rich rhyme rime riche. See IDENTICAL RHYME; RHYME; RICH RHYME © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xviii TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES rising and falling rhythm ritornello rota virgiliana rune running rhythm Saturnian saudosismo scansion scheme Schüttelreim scop seguidilla senarius senhal sensibility sentimentality septenarius septet serial form serranilla sestet sexain Shijing Shinkokinshū Sicilian octave sign, signified, signifier signifying simile sincerity slang. See DICTION śles.a songbook sound space, poetic spatial form speaker. See PERSONA; VOICE speech act theory Spenserian stanza split lines spoken word. See PERFORMANCE spondee spontaneity Spruchdichtung sprung rhythm stances stanza stave stichomythia stichos stock stornello strambotto strophe structure style stylistics sublime substitution syllabic verse syllable syllepsis symbol synaeresis synaesthesia synaloepha synapheia syncopation syncope synecdoche system syzygy tail rhyme taste technopaegnion telesilleum tenor and vehicle tercet tetrameter tétramètre text textual criticism textuality texture thematics timbre tlacuilolli tmesis tone topos tornada Tottel’s Miscellany touchstones tradition translation tribrach trilogy trimeter trimètre triple rhyme triplet trobairitz trobar clus, trobar leu trochaic trope troubadour trouvère typography unity upamā ut pictura poesis utpreks.ā variable foot variation vates Venus and Adonis stanza verisimilitude. See MIMESIS vers verse and prose verse paragraph verse systems. See METER verset versification versi sciolti vers libéré vers mesurés à l’antique verso piano verso sdrucciolo verso tronco vida villancico visual rhyme. See EYE RHYME voice volta Wartburgkrieg wheel. See BOB AND WHEEL wit word-count work wrenched accent xenoglossia yuefu zaum’ zeugma Genres and Forms abecedarius acrostic air alba allegory anecdote anthem, national aphorism. See EPIGRAM balada balagtasan ballad ballade beast epic bestiary Biblical poetry. See HEBREW POETRY; HEBREW PROSODY AND POETICS; HYMN; PSALM blank verse blason blues broadside ballad bucolic burlesque. See CONTRAFACTUM; PARODY; PASTICHE calendrical poetry calligramme canción canso cantar cantiga carol chanso, chanson. See FRANCE, POETRY OF; OCCITAN POETRY; SONGBOOK; TROUBADOUR; TROUVÈRE chanson de geste chanson de toile chant chante-fable © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. GENRES AND FORMS chant royal charm ci clerihew closet drama collage comedy comma poem companion poems complaint computational poetry conceptual poetry concrete poetry conversation poem corrido. See CHICANA/O POETRY; ROMANCE country house poem cowboy poetry descriptive poetry devotional poetry dialect poetry didactic poetry Dinggedicht dirge dit dizain doggerel dramatic monologue. See MONOLOGUE dramatic poetry dream vision dub poetry. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY OF THE echo verse ecstatic poetry edda ekphrasis electronic poetry elegy emblem encomium endecha englyn ensalada ensenhamen epic epicedium epideictic poetry epigram epinikion epitaph epithalamium epithet epyllion erotic poetry espinela estampida fable fabliau fescennine verses finida folk poetry. See ORAL POETRY form found poetry free verse freie rhythmen freie verse fu gaucho poetry genre georgic ghazal gnomic poetry Goliardic verse haikai haiku, Western heroic verse hybrid poetry hymn jingle kind Knittelvers lai lament landscape poem letter, verse. See VERSE EPISTLE lied light verse limerick liturgical poetry long poem love poetry lullaby lyric lyric sequence macaronic verse madrigal manifesto masnavī masque medieval romance melic poetry micropoetries Minnesang mock epic, mock heroic monologue morale élémentaire muwashshah.. See AL-ANDALUS, POETRY OF; ARABIC POETRY; HEBREW POETRY narrative poetry nativity poem Nō nonsense verse nursery rhymes occasional verse ode paean palinode panegyric pantun parody pastiche pastoral xix pastourelle pattern poetry. See CALLIGRAMME; CONCRETE POETRY; TECHNOPAEGNION; VISUAL POETRY payada penitential psalms planctus planh poem poetry poetry slam political verse proem prophetic poetry prose poem proverb psalm psalms, metrical qas.īda quatorzain quintilla rap. See HIP-HOP POETICS razo recusatio redondilla reverdie riddle rímur ring composition rispetto romance rondeau rondel rotrouenge roundel rubā ī¶ saga sapphic satire sestina sextilla shi silloi silva sirventes Skeltonic skolion slam, poetry. See POETRY SLAM song sonnet sonnet sequence sotadean sound poetry spiritual stasimon tagelied tenso terza rima terza rima sonnet toast tragedy © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xx TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES tragicomedy triolet tumbling verse verse drama. See DRAMATIC POETRY verse epistle verse novel. See NARRATIVE POETRY vers libre villanelle virelai visual poetry waka war poetry ymryson zéjel Periods, Schools, and Movements acmeism Agrarians Alexandrianism Areopagus avant-garde poetics baroque Beat poetry Biedermeier Black Arts movement Black Mountain school Cavalier poets Chicago school Ciceronianism classical poetics classical prosody Cockney school of poetry confessional poetry Connecticut wits constructivism courtly makers creationism cubism Dada Dark Room Collective Deep Image Dolce stil nuovo ecopoetry. See ENVIRONMENT AND POETRY Évora critics expressionism Félibrige Finland-Swedish modernists Fireside poets Flarf fleshly school of poetry Fugitives futurism Fyrtiotalisterna gay poetry Georgianism graveyard poetry Harlem Renaissance Hellenistic poetics. See ALEXANDRIANISM; CLASSICAL POETICS Hellenistic poetry. See GREEK POETRY hip-hop poetics imagism impressionism jazz poetry Jindyworobak Kootenay school Lake school Language poetry lesbian poetry lettrisme mannerism Marinism medieval poetics medieval poetry Meistersinger metaphysical poetry minimalism modernism modernismo Moscow-Tartu school. See STRUCTURALISM Movement, the naturalism Negritude neobaroque neoclassical poetics neo-Gongorism New Formalism New York school Nil Volentibus Arduum Noigandres Norske Selskab Nuyorican Poets Café objectivism Oulipo Parnassianism Petrarchism Pléiade postmodernism Prague school. See STRUCTURALISM Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Pre-Raphaelitism preromanticism primitivism procedural poetry. See ALEATORY POETICS; CONCEPTUAL POETRY; OULIPO projective verse protest poetry queer poetry realism rederijkers Renaissance poetics Renaissance poetry rhétoriqueurs, grands Rhymers’ Club rococo romantic and postromantic poetry and poetics romanticism Russian formalism San Francisco Renaissance Satanic school school of Spenser Scottish Chaucerians or Makars seconde rhétorique Sicilian school smithy poets spasmodic school structuralism Sturm und Drang surrealism symbolism Tachtigers Tel Quel TISH Transcendentalists ultraism vorticism XUL National, Regional, and Diasporic Poetries Africa, poetry of African American poetry Afrikaans poetry. See SOUTH AFRICA, POETRY OF Akkadian poetry. See ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA, POETRY OF Al-Andalus, poetry of Albania, poetry of American Indian poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; INUIT POETRY; NAVAJO POETRY American poetry. See UNITED STATES, POETRY OF THE American Sign Language poetry Amerind poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Amharic poetry. See ETHIOPIA, POETRY OF Arabic poetics Arabic poetry Arabic prosody Araucanian poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Argentina, poetry of Armenian poetry and poetics Asian American poetry Assamese poetry Assyria and Babylonia, poetry of Australia, poetry of Austria, poetry of Aztec poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Basque Country, poetry of the Belarus, poetry of. See RUSSIA, POETRY OF Belgium, poetry of Bengali poetry Bhakti poetry. See INDIA, POETRY OF Bolivia, poetry of Bosnian poetry Brazil, poetry of Breton poetry Bulgaria, poetry of Byzantine poetry Cambodia, poetry of Canada, poetry of © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND DIASPORIC POETRIES Caribbean, poetry of the Catalan poetry Celtic prosody Chicana/o poetry Chile, poetry of China, modern poetry of China, poetry of China, popular poetry of Chinese poetic drama Chinese poetics Chinese poetry in English translation Chinese poetry in Japan Colombia, poetry of Cornish poetry Croatian poetry Cuba, poetry of. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY OF THE Czech poetry Danish poetry. See DENMARK, POETRY OF Denmark, poetry of Dutch poetry. See LOW COUNTRIES, POETRY OF THE Ecuador, poetry of Egypt, poetry of El Salvador, poetry of England, poetry of English prosody Esperanto poetry Estonia, poetry of Ethiopia, poetry of Finland, poetry of Flemish poetry. See LOW COUNTRIES, POETRY OF THE France, poetry of francophone poets of the U.S. French poetry. See FRANCE, POETRY OF French prosody Frisian poetry Gaelic poetry. See IRELAND, POETRY OF; SCOTLAND, POETRY OF Galicia, poetry of Georgia, poetry of Germanic prosody German poetry Greek poetics. See ALEXANDRIANISM; BYZANTINE POETRY; CLASSICAL POETICS Greek poetry Guaraní poetry Guatemala, poetry of Gujarati poetry Gypsy poetry. See ROMANI POETRY Haiti, poetry of. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY OF THE Hausa poetry Hebrew poetry Hebrew prosody and poetics Hindi poetry Hispano-Arabic poetry. See AL-ANDALUS, POETRY OF Hittite poetry Hungary, poetry of Iceland, poetry of Inca poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE India, English poetry of India, poetry of Indian prosody indigenous Americas, poetry of the Indonesian poetry Inuit poetry Iranian poetry. See PERSIAN POETRY Ireland, poetry of Italian prosody Italy, poetry of Japan, modern poetry of Japan, poetry of Japanese linked verse. See RENGA Japanese poetic diaries Japanese poetics Java, poetry of. See INDONESIAN POETRY Judeo-Spanish poetry Kannada poetry Kashmiri poetry Korea, poetry of Ladino poetry. See JUDEO-SPANISH POETRY Latin America, poetry of. See ARGENTINA, POETRY OF; BOLIVIA, POETRY OF; BRAZIL, POETRY OF; CHILE, POETRY OF; COLOMBIA, POETRY OF; ECUADOR, POETRY OF; EL SALVADOR, POETRY OF; GAUCHO POETRY; GUARANÍ POETRY; GUATEMALA, POETRY OF; INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; MAPUCHE POETRY; MEXICO, POETRY OF; NICARAGUA, POETRY OF; PERU, POETRY OF; SPANISH AMERICA, POETRY OF; URUGUAY, POETRY OF; VENEZUELA, POETRY OF Latin poetics. See CLASSICAL POETICS; CLASSICISM; MEDIEVAL POETICS Latin poetry Latin prosody. See CLASSICAL PROSODY Latvia, poetry of Lithuania, poetry of Low Countries, poetry of the Macedonian poetry Magyar poetry. See HUNGARY, POETRY OF Malayalam poetry Malay poetry Maori poetry. See NEW ZEALAND, POETRY OF Mapuche poetry Marathi poetry Mayan poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Mesoamerica, poetry of. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Mexican American poetry. See CHICANA/O POETRY Mexico, poetry of Mongolia, poetry of Mozarabic poetry. See SPAIN, POETRY OF xxi Nahuatl, poetry of. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Native American poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; INUIT POETRY; NAVAJO POETRY Navajo poetry Nepāl Bhās.a. See NEWAR POETRY Nepali and Pahari poetry Netherlands, poetry of the. See LOW COUNTRIES, POETRY OF THE Newar poetry New Norse (Nynorsk) New Zealand, poetry of Nicaragua, poetry of Norse poetry Norway, poetry of Nuyorican poetry Occitan poetry Oriya poetry Persian poetry Peru, poetry of Philippines, poetry of the Poland, poetry of Polynesian poetry Portugal, poetry of Prakrit poetry Provençal poetry. See OCCITAN POETRY Puerto Rico, poetry of. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY OF THE Punjabi poetry Rāmāyana . poetry Romania, poetry of Romani poetry Romansh poetry. See SWITZERLAND, POETRY OF Russia, poetry of Sanskrit poetics Sanskrit poetry Scotland, poetry of Scottish Gaelic poetry. See SCOTLAND, POETRY OF Sephardic poetry. See JUDEO-SPANISH POETRY Serbian poetry Siamese poetry. See THAILAND, POETRY OF Sindhi poetry. See INDIA, POETRY OF Sinhalese poetry. See SRI LANKA, POETRY OF Slavic poetics. See BOSNIAN POETRY; CROATIAN POETRY; CZECH POETRY; POLAND, POETRY OF; RUSSIA, POETRY OF; SERBIAN POETRY; SLOVENIAN POETRY Slovakia, poetry of Slovenian poetry Somali poetry South Africa, poetry of South America, poetry of. See ARGENTINA, POETRY OF; BOLIVIA, POETRY OF; BRAZIL, POETRY OF; CHILE, POETRY OF; COLOMBIA, POETRY OF; ECUADOR, POETRY OF; GAUCHO POETRY; GUARANÍ © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xxii TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES POETRY; INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; MAPUCHE POETRY; PERU, POETRY OF; URUGUAY, POETRY OF; VENEZUELA, POETRY OF Spain, poetry of Spanish America, poetry of Spanish prosody Sri Lanka, poetry of Sumerian poetry Swahili poetry Sweden, poetry of Switzerland, poetry of Tamil poetry and poetics Telugu poetry Thailand, poetry of Tibet, contemporary poetry of Tibet, traditional poetry and poetics of Turkic poetry Turkish poetry Ukraine, poetry of United States, poetry of the Urdu poetry Uruguay, poetry of Vedic poetry. See INDIA, POETRY OF Venezuela, poetry of Vietnam, poetry of Welsh poetry Welsh prosody. See CELTIC PROSODY West Indian poetry. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY OF THE Xhosa poetry Yiddish poetry Yoruba poetry. See AFRICA, POETRY OF Zulu poetry Poetry in Culture and Society anthropology and poetry artifact, poetry as belief and poetry biography and poetry cultural studies and poetry dance and poetry documentary poetics environment and poetry feminist approaches to poetry fiction, poetry as gender and poetry history and poetry information, poetry as knowledge, poetry as linguistics and poetics music and poetry novel, poetry in the painting and poetry philosophy and poetry poetry therapy. See THERAPY AND POETRY politics and poetry psychology and poetry religion and poetry rhetoric and poetry science and poetry semantics and poetry semiotics and poetry syntax, poetic technology and poetry therapy and poetry visual arts and poetry. See CARMINA FIGURATA; CONCRETE POETRY; EKPHRASIS; PAINTING AND POETRY; UT PICTURA POESIS; VISUAL POETRY
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