Dictionary of Poetic Terms

This was reccomended to me by a teacher, and some of the extended definitions are really helpful.

This guide is at once scholarly and engagingly written-making it more useful for the student, writer, or reader of contemporary poetry than other, more venerable tomes. By using the helpful cross-listings and the subject guides in the appendices, you can follow both the history and current practice of poetic technique. All the Greek tropes are there with readable entries, but so are cinematic techniques like the "metaphor cut," and "jump cut" along with discussions of how film technique was influenced by poetry and vice versa. The Dictionary of Poetic Terms is the best of its kind by orders of magnitude. No aspiring poet should be without it.

Absolutely solid and useful. Well organized and researched. My favorite poetic dictionary since Turco.