Andrew Blades is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Piers Pennington completed his doctoral studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

'Looking through a … broader scope, Piers Pennington and Andrew Blades's Poetry & the Dictionary 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.' Chelsie Malyszek, LA Review of Books

• Part 1: Poetry and the Dictionary 1. IntroductionAndrew Blades and Piers Pennington 2. ‘When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary’: Poets and Dictionaries, Dictionaries and PoetsCharlotte Brewer 3. Poetry in the Oxford English Dictionary: A Quantitative ProfileDavid-Antoine Williams 4. Lexicography in Modern PoetryMatthew SperlingPart 2: British and Irish Poetry and the Dictionary 5. Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and DictionariesMichael Whitworth 6. Not even inventedDeborah Bowman 7. Proper Names, the Dictionary, and the Poetry of ExperimentPiers Pennington 8. Etymology and Elegy: Paul Muldoon’s ‘Yarrow’ and ‘Cuthbert and the Otters’Mia Gaudern Part 3: American Poetry and the Dictionary 9. Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore’s Responses to Dictionaries in The Dial and ObservationsTara Stubbs10. A Collected Unconscious: James Merrill’s DictionariesAndrew Blades 11. ‘All Things are Words of Some Strange Tongue’: Dictionary Definition Form in Contemporary American PoetryKate Potts 12. Long Poems about Everything: Dictionary as Subject and Model for Poem, 1974–2016Giles Goodland

Andrew Blades is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Piers Pennington completed his doctoral studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

'Looking through a … broader scope, Piers Pennington and Andrew Blades's Poetry & the Dictionary 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.' Chelsie Malyszek, LA Review of Books

• Part 1: Poetry and the Dictionary 1. IntroductionAndrew Blades and Piers Pennington 2. ‘When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary’: Poets and Dictionaries, Dictionaries and PoetsCharlotte Brewer 3. Poetry in the Oxford English Dictionary: A Quantitative ProfileDavid-Antoine Williams 4. Lexicography in Modern PoetryMatthew SperlingPart 2: British and Irish Poetry and the Dictionary 5. Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and DictionariesMichael Whitworth 6. Not even inventedDeborah Bowman 7. Proper Names, the Dictionary, and the Poetry of ExperimentPiers Pennington 8. Etymology and Elegy: Paul Muldoon’s ‘Yarrow’ and ‘Cuthbert and the Otters’Mia Gaudern Part 3: American Poetry and the Dictionary 9. Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore’s Responses to Dictionaries in The Dial and ObservationsTara Stubbs10. A Collected Unconscious: James Merrill’s DictionariesAndrew Blades 11. ‘All Things are Words of Some Strange Tongue’: Dictionary Definition Form in Contemporary American PoetryKate Potts 12. Long Poems about Everything: Dictionary as Subject and Model for Poem, 1974–2016Giles Goodland

Andrew Blades is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Piers Pennington completed his doctoral studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

'Looking through a … broader scope, Piers Pennington and Andrew Blades's Poetry & the Dictionary 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.' Chelsie Malyszek, LA Review of Books

• Part 1: Poetry and the Dictionary 1. IntroductionAndrew Blades and Piers Pennington 2. ‘When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary’: Poets and Dictionaries, Dictionaries and PoetsCharlotte Brewer 3. Poetry in the Oxford English Dictionary: A Quantitative ProfileDavid-Antoine Williams 4. Lexicography in Modern PoetryMatthew SperlingPart 2: British and Irish Poetry and the Dictionary 5. Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and DictionariesMichael Whitworth 6. Not even inventedDeborah Bowman 7. Proper Names, the Dictionary, and the Poetry of ExperimentPiers Pennington 8. Etymology and Elegy: Paul Muldoon’s ‘Yarrow’ and ‘Cuthbert and the Otters’Mia Gaudern Part 3: American Poetry and the Dictionary 9. Briefer Mentions and Lyrical Lexicons: Marianne Moore’s Responses to Dictionaries in The Dial and ObservationsTara Stubbs10. A Collected Unconscious: James Merrill’s DictionariesAndrew Blades 11. ‘All Things are Words of Some Strange Tongue’: Dictionary Definition Form in Contemporary American PoetryKate Potts 12. Long Poems about Everything: Dictionary as Subject and Model for Poem, 1974–2016Giles Goodland