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A Handbook to Literature, Ninth Edition. Edited by William Harmon. Prentice Hall, 672 pages, $50.00.
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you know what "poikilomorphism" means? Ask William Harmon,
professor in the humanities. He made it up. It refers to rare cases
of poets' preserving rhythm, meter, and stanza length while
changing the rhyme scheme from stanza to stanza. You can find it
and many other interesting and obscure literary terms in the new
edition of A Handbook to Literature, edited by Harmon.
The book began in the 1930s as a mimeographed item passed around
Carolina's English department. Nine editions and millions
of copies later, it inhabits libraries and bookshelves of students
and professors around the world.
Mary
Alice Scott is editorial assistant for Endeavors magazine.
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