This book is an incredible achievement. There is a new edition although, in the wake of the almighty downfall of the humanities, I shied away from it and picked this 1993 edition up instead; saving myself some money to spend on other books in the process. This was not the only reason however: This i...
This is really an invaluable resource for anybody studying poetry. And of course, I haven't read it cover to cover per se, but I sure reference it a lot.
This was given to me as a gift at a time when I was very into poetry, both reading and writing. At that time I would read this a lot. Flipping through it and reading random headings that caught my eye or looking up specific terms to see what they had to say. All in all it was a quite positive exp...