The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Alphabetical List of Entries
• Bibliographical Abbreviations
• General Abbreviations
• Contributors
• A
• Africa, poetry of
• Al-Andalus, poetry of
• Albania, poetry of
• Arabic poetics
• Arabic poetry
• Arabic prosody
• Argentina, poetry of
• Armenian poetry and poetics
• Assamese poetry
• Assyria and Babylonia, poetry of
• Australia, poetry of
• Austria, poetry of
• B
• Basque Country, poetry of the
• Belgium, poetry of
• Bengali poetry
• Bolivia, poetry of
• Bosnian poetry
• Brazil, poetry of
• Breton poetry
• Bulgaria, poetry of
• Byzantine poetry
• C
• Cambodia, poetry of
• Canada, poetry of
• Caribbean, poetry of the
• Catalan poetry
• Celtic prosody
• Chile, poetry of
• China, modern poetry of
• China, poetry of
• China, popular poetry of
• Chinese poetic drama
• Chinese poetics
• Chinese poetry in English translation
• Chinese poetry in Japan
• Colombia, poetry of
• Cornish poetry
• Croatian poetry
• Czech poetry
• D
• Denmark, poetry of
• E
• Ecuador, poetry of
• Egypt, poetry of
• El Salvador, poetry of
• England, poetry of
• Esperanto poetry
• Estonia, poetry of
• Ethiopia, poetry of
• F
• Finland, poetry of
• France, poetry of
• French prosody
• Frisian poetry
• G
• Galicia, poetry of
• Georgia, poetry of
• Germanic prosody
• German poetry
• Greek poetry
• Guaraní poetry
• Guatemala, poetry of
• Gujarati poetry
• H
• Hausa poetry
• Hebrew poetry
• Hebrew prosody and poetics
• Hindi poetry
• Hittite poetry
• Hungary, poetry of
• I
• Iceland, poetry of
• India, English poetry of
• India, poetry of
• Indian prosody
• indigenous Americas, poetry of the
• Indonesian poetry
• Inuit poetry
• Ireland, poetry of
• Italian prosody
• Italy, poetry of
• J
• Japan, modern poetry of
• Japan, poetry of
• Japanese poetic diaries
• Japanese poetics
• Judeo-Spanish poetry
• K
• Kannada poetry
• Kashmiri poetry
• Korea, poetry of
• L
• Latin poetry
• Latvia, poetry of
• Lithuania, poetry of
• Low Countries, poetry of the
• M
• Macedonian poetry
• Malayalam poetry
• Malay poetry
• Mapuche poetry
• Marathi poetry
• Mexico, poetry of
• Mongolia, poetry of
• N
• Navajo poetry
• Nepali and Pahari poetry
• Newar poetry
• New Norse (Nynorsk) poetry
• New Zealand, poetry of
• Nicaragua, poetry of
• Norse poetry
• Norway, poetry of
• O
• Occitan poetry
• Oriya poetry
• P
• Persian poetry
• Peru, poetry of
• Philippines, poetry of the
• Poland, poetry of
• Polynesian poetry
• Portugal, poetry of
• Prakrit poetry
• Punjabi poetry
• R
• Rāmāyaṇa poetry
• Romania, poetry of
• Romani poetry
• Russia, poetry of
• S
• Sanskrit poetics
• Sanskrit poetry
• Scotland, poetry of
• Serbian poetry
• Slovakia, poetry of
• Slovenian poetry
• Somali poetry
• South Africa, poetry of
• Spain, poetry of
• Spanish America, poetry of
• Spanish prosody
• Sri Lanka, poetry of
• Sumerian poetry
• Swahili poetry
• Sweden, poetry of
• Switzerland, poetry of
• T
• Tamil poetry and poetics
• Telugu poetry
• Thailand, poetry of
• Tibet, contemporary poetry of
• Tibet, traditional poetry and poetics of
• Turkic poetry
• Turkish poetry
• U
• Ukraine, poetry of
• United States, poetry of
• the Urdu poetry
• Uruguay, poetry of
• V
• Venezuela, poetry of
• Vietnam, poetry of
• W
• Welsh poetry
• X
• Xhosa poetry
• Y
• Yiddish poetry
• Z
• Zulu poetry