Most major entries have been rewritten altogether. Virtually no former entry has been reprinted without significant changes, and over 90% of the original entries have been extensively revised. PREFACE We have sought to produce a work which retains what was most valuable from the last edition, adds extensive coverage of all new poetries and critical theories, provides more extensive bibliographies on every topic for further reading, im proves on cross-referencing, and is written in clear prose, yet keeps within the bounds of a single volume. All told, the last 25 years have witnessed enor mous changes in both the practice of criticism in the West and also the writing of poetry around the world. The same can be said for developments in the poetries of Mrica, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America: recent political changes in these areas of the world have been swift, extensive, and complex, resulting in burgeoning national literatures. The period since 1965 has been a time of extraordinarily vigorous, almost dizzying change in literary studies: both the amount and the variety of work has increased geometrically over that prior to 1965, with the result that issues of interpretation, history, gender, culture, and theory now dominate the critical scene which were largely unknown in 1965. We send our students to the Encyclopedia for both." In late 1984, when the Editors agreed to undertake a third edition, it was obvious to all that what would be required would be almost entirely a new text. We have few good accounts of English poetry available to us here indeed, we have few reliable accounts of Burmese poetry either. This third edition follows upon the first edition of 1965, supplemented in 1974, which was well received and which has been consulted, over the years, by countless readers both in America and abroad: indeed, one Burmese scholar wrote us to say "there are relatively few books in our library, and the Princeton Encyclopedia is one of the most heavily used of all. It provides balanced and comprehen sive accounts of the major movements and issues in criticism and literary theory, and discussion of the manifold relations of poetry to the other fields of human thought and activity-history, science, politics, religion, philosophy, music, the visual arts. It provides surveys of 106 national poetries descriptions of poetic forms and genres major and minor, traditional and emergent detailed explanations of the devices of prosody and rhetoric and overviews of all major schools of poetry ancient and modern, Western and Eastern.
Its aim is to provide a comprehensive, comparative, reasonably advanced, yet readable reference for all students, teachers, scholars, poets, or general readers who are interested in the history of any poetry in any national literature of the world, or in any aspect of the technique or criticism of poetry. PREFACE This is a book of knowledge, of facts, theories, questions, and informed judgment, about poetry. Jacqueline Vaught Brogan Augusta Preminger and for Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.Ĭomposed in ITC New Baskerville and custom fonts Designed and produced by Leximetrics, Inc., South Bend, Indiana Printed in the United States of America 7 9 10 8 Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 1-8 (hardback edition) ISBN: 3-6 (paperback edition) 1. Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data T he New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Alex Preminger and T.
Publication has been aided by a grant from the Lacy Lockert Fund of Princeton University Press. Without their support this book would not have been possible. Preparation of this volume was made possible in part by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency dedicated to furthering the values of humane scholarship and culture in America, and by grants from other major foundations and private donors who wish to remain anonymous. PRINCE TON, NEW JERSEY P R I N C E T ON U N I V E R S I TY P R E S S 1993Ĭopyright © 1993 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved HARDISON, JR.,t AND EARL M INER ASSOCIATE EDITORS THE NEW PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POETRY AND POETICS ALEX P REMINGER AND T.
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