Poetry

Vocabulary:	lcsh
Type:	topical
Status:	approved heading [active]
Date Created:	1986-02-11 00:00:00
Date Modified:	2012-10-02 16:11:57

Class Numbers

PN1010-PN1525 [LCC///DLC]

Alternate Terms

Poems

| Poetry--Philosophy

| Verses (Poetry)

Broader Concepts

Literature

Narrower Concepts

Anacreontic poetry

| Anapestic poetry

| Anti-war poetry

| Autobiographical poetry

| Autograph verse

| Ballades

| Ballads

| Bards and bardism

| Bathetic poetry

| Bawdy poetry

| Biographical poetry

| Blank verse

| Centos

| Children's poetry

| Christmas poetry

| Cinquains

| Clerihews

| College verse

| Complaint poetry

| Computer poetry

| Concrete poetry

| Coplas

| Couplets

| Dadaist poetry

| Debate poetry

| Dialect poetry

| Didactic poetry

| Doggerel

| Double dactyls

| Eddas

| Elegiac poetry

| Epic poetry

| Epigrams

| Epistolary poetry

| Erotic poetry

| Experimental poetry

| Fairy poetry

| Fantasy poetry

| Feminist poetry

| Found poetry

| Free verse

| Gnomic poetry

| Gothic poetry (Literary genre)

| Haiku

| Heroids

| Historical poetry

| Humorous poetry

| Hymns

| Hypertext poetry

| Iambic poetry

| Imagist poetry

| Jesuit poetry

| Language poetry

| Lanternes

| Laudatory poetry

| Lausavísur

| Lays

| Limericks

| Liturgy and poetry

| Love poetry

| Lyric poetry

| Macaronic literature

| Macaronic poetry

| Madrigals

| Magic and poetry

| Monostiches

| Mysticism and poetry

| Narrative poetry

| Nazires

| Nazms

| New Age poetry

| Occasional verse

| Odes

| Ottava rimas

| Palinode

| Pastoral poetry

| Pastourelles

| Patriotic poetry

| Poetic diaries

| Poetic license

| Poetry of places

| Political poetry

| Prose poems

| Protest poetry

| Quatrains

| Refrain

| Religion and poetry

| Religious poetry

| Renshi (Poetry)

| Rímur

| Rondeaus

| Rondels

| Sapphics

| Scalds and scaldic poetry

| School verse

| Science fiction poetry

| Sea poetry

| Serial poetry

| Sestinas

| Society verse

| Sound poetry

| Speculative poetry

| Stanzas

| Street poetry

| Tensons

| Titles of poems

| Verse satire

| Villanelles

| Visual poetry

| War poetry

| Young adult poetry

Scope Notes

Here are entered general works on poetry and works limited to the philosophy of poetry. Works discussing collectively the technique and philosophy of poetry and works limited to the technique of poetry are entered under Poetics.

Supplemental Notes

Note under Poetics

Sources

Dictionary.com, Dec. 27, 2011 (verse 1. (not in technical use) a stanza. 2. a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. 3. a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse. 4. a poem, or piece of poetry. 5. metrical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form.)
Wikipedia, Dec. 27, 2011 (Verse may refer to: Poetry: * Verse (poetry), a metrical structure, a stanza * Blank verse is a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme * Free verse is a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but is still recognized as poetry * Verse, an occasional synonym for poetry; Religion: * Chapters and verses of the Bible * Ayah, each one of the 6236 verses found in the Qur'an; Music: Verse (popular music), roughly corresponds to a poetic stanza)