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Author:   Andrew Blades (Department of English, University of Bristol (United Kingdom)) ,  Piers Pennington
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9781789620566

ISBN 10:   1789620562
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   26 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Poetry and the Dictionary 1.  Introduction Andrew Blades and Piers Pennington2.  ‘When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary’: Poets and Dictionaries, Dictionaries and Poets Charlotte Brewer3.  Poetry in the Oxford English Dictionary: A Quantitative Profile David-Antoine Williams4.  Lexicography in Modern Poetry Matthew Sperling Part 2: British and Irish Poetry and the Dictionary 5.  Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and Dictionaries Michael Whitworth6.  Not even invented Deborah Bowman7.  Proper Names, the Dictionary, and the Poetry of Experiment Piers Pennington8.  Etymology and Elegy: Paul Muldoon’s ‘Yarrow’ and ‘Cuthbert and the Otters’ Mia Gaudern Part 3: American Poetry and the Dictionary 9. Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore’s Responses to Dictionaries in The Dial and Observations Tara Stubbs  10. A Collected Unconscious: James Merrill’s Dictionaries Andrew Blades11. ‘All Things are Words of Some Strange Tongue’: Dictionary Definition Form in Contemporary American Poetry Kate Potts12. Long Poems about Everything: Dictionary as Subject and Model for Poem, 1974–2016 Giles Goodland

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Reviews 'This fascinating collection of essays offers a set of new perspectives on experimental poetics as a tradition and as a current practice. This will be a book of substantial interest to scholars, critics, students and readers of contemporary poetry.' Professor Andrew Roberts, University of Dundee 'This collection affords the poet, the lexicographer, and the literary scholar a fruitful and rich cross-disciplinary dive into the mechanics of both language and lyricism... a worthy collection of essays.' D. A. Lockhart, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 'Readers who want to know about W.H. Auden's love affair with the OED (p. 83) will find enlightenment here, while the poems and essays of T.S. Eliot are individually indexed in a highly professional index at the back of the book. [...] Equally rewarding for the curious reader is Tara Stubbs's essay on Marianne Moore, an American poet of the early 20th-century.' Patrick Hanks, International Journal of Lexicography

Reviews `This fascinating collection of essays offers a set of new perspectives on experimental poetics as a tradition and as a current practice. This will be a book of substantial interest to scholars, critics, students and readers of contemporary poetry.' Professor Andrew Roberts, University of Dundee

Author Information

Andrew Blades is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Piers Pennington completed his doctoral studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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