Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part 1: Poetry & the Dictionary
1. Introduction
2. 'When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary': Poets and Dictionaries, Dictionaries and Poets
3. Poetry in the Oxford English Dictionary: A Quantitative Profile
4. Lexicography and Modern Poetry
Part 2: British and Irish Poetry & the Dictionary
5. Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and Dictionaries
6. not even invented
7. Proper Names, the Dictionary, and the Poetry of Experiment

8. Etymology and Elegy: Paul Muldoon's 'Yarrow' and 'Cuthbert and the Otters'
Part 3: American Poetry & the Dictionary
9. Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore's Responses to Dictionaries in The Dial and Observations
10. A Collected Unconscious: James Merrill's Dictionaries
11. 'All Things are Words of Some Strange Tongue': Dictionary Definition Form in Contemporary American Poetry
12. Long Poems about Everything: Dictionary as Subject and Model for Poem, 1974-2016
Notes on Contributors
Index