{"product_id":"poetry-the-dictionary-9781789620566","title":"Poetry \u0026 the Dictionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry is an ancient verbal art, which has its roots in the oral epics and fragments that survive from classical times. Dictionaries of English, by contrast, are a comparatively recent phenomenon, beginning with the ‘hard words’ that Robert Cawdrey gathered in \u003ci\u003eA Table Alphabeticall\u003c\/i\u003e  in 1604 and extending to the present edition of the \u003ci\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, with its ongoing revisions. This innovative collection of  essays is the first volume to explore the ways in which dictionaries have stimulated the imaginations of modern and contemporary poets from Britain, Ireland, and America, while also considering how poetry has itself been a rich source of material for lexicographers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as gauging the influence of major dictionaries like the \u003ci\u003eOED\u003c\/i\u003e, the essays single out encounters with more specialised works and broach uses of words that are not typically included in dictionaries. In doing so, the contributors not only cast familiar questions of ambiguity and etymology in a fresh light, but they also reveal a number of surprising and energising points of contact, from Hugh MacDiarmid’s rediscovery of Scots to Tina Darragh’s visual appropriations of dictionary pages. As such, \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u0026amp; the Dictionary \u003c\/i\u003ewill prove an  indispensable volume for all readers – academic or not – who find themselves fascinated by the language’s many involutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews ‘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.’ \u003cbr\u003eProfessor Andrew Roberts, University of Dundee\u003cbr\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003eD. A. Lockhart, \u003ci\u003eDictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cbr\u003e Patrick Hanks, \u003cem\u003eInternational Journal of Lexicography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'For readers willing to engage with this more academic text, \u003cem\u003ePoetry \u0026amp; the Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e will provide a degree of poetic and intellectual investigation that may ultimately lead to polyvocal poetry.’ \u003cbr\u003e Renée M. Sgroi, \u003cem\u003eCarousel Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Looking through a … broader scope, Piers Pennington and Andrew Blades's \u003cem\u003ePoetry \u0026amp; the Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e tracks the centuries-long relationship between the terms of their book's title … remind[ing] us that the dictionary itself cannot be \"depersonalized,\" that no \"picture\" it presents is necessarily clear.' \u003cbr\u003e Chelsie Malyszek, \u003cem\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Poetry and the Dictionary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1.  Introduction\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Blades and Piers Pennington2.  ‘When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary’: Poets and Dictionaries, Dictionaries and Poets\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Brewer3.  Poetry in the \u003ci\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e: A Quantitative Profile\u003cbr\u003eDavid-Antoine Williams4.  Lexicography in Modern Poetry\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Sperling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: British and Irish Poetry and the Dictionary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e5.  Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and Dictionaries\u003cbr\u003eMichael Whitworth6.  Not even invented\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Bowman7.  Proper Names, the Dictionary, and the Poetry of Experiment\u003cbr\u003ePiers Pennington8.  Etymology and Elegy: Paul Muldoon’s ‘Yarrow’ and ‘Cuthbert and the Otters’\u003cbr\u003eMia Gaudern\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: American Poetry and the Dictionary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e9. Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore’s Responses to Dictionaries in \u003ci\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eObservations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTara Stubbs\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Collected Unconscious: James Merrill’s Dictionaries\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Blades11. ‘All Things are Words of Some Strange Tongue’: Dictionary Definition Form in Contemporary American Poetry\u003cbr\u003eKate Potts12. Long Poems about Everything: Dictionary as Subject and Model for Poem, 1974–2016\u003cbr\u003eGiles Goodland\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042587771223,"sku":"9781789620566","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789620566.jpg?v=1750954761","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetry-the-dictionary-9781789620566","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}