The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
*Starred Review* The go-to resource for students doing research on poetry technique and terminology, the fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics features many new and valuable updates from the third edition, in 1993. This edition includes 250 new entries on topics such as Cognitive poetics, Fireside poets, Fractal verse, Gay poetry, Poetry of the indigenous Americas, and Poetry slam. Readers will also find expanded coverage of international poetry (characteristics of, not specific works or poets), with new entries on the poetry of China, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. More than 100 nations, regions, and languages are represented.  The work contains more than 1,100 entries, and those on major subjects, such as classical poetics, dramatic poetry, and rhetoric, among others, have all been rewritten to reflect updated scholarship. Entries range in length from one paragraph to several pages. Each entry includes an excellent and extensive bibliography, and the expert cross-referencing makes the work extremely easy to navigate. An index has been added, offering even greater value to the work—especially because poets and authors are found within the text of larger topics, not as individual entries.  This is an essential purchase for academic and large public libraries, and libraries owning the previous edition will want to replace it with this volume. Highly recommended. --Julie Elliott--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.