A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.

• Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea
• Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings
• The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres
• Contributors include Bernard O’Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics

• A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE 6
  • Contents 8
  • Notes on Contributors 12
  • Preface 22
  • Acknowledgments 27
  • Part I 31
    • 1: “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre 33
    • 2: What Was New Formalism? 47
    • 3: Meter 64
    • 4: The Stanza: Echo Chambers 83
    • 5: Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode 94
    • 6: English Elegies 107
    • 7: The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem? 123
    • 8: Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 134
    • 9: On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad 147