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Poetic Justice was a term coined by Thomas Rymer, an English critic of the later seventeenth century, to signify the distribution, at the...

Prosody signifies the systematic study of versification in poetry; that is, a study of the principles and practice of meter, rhyme, and...

A type of drama that was popularized by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In problem plays, the situation faced by the protagonist...

In Plato's Symposium, Socrates recounts the doctrine about Eros (love) that, he modestly says, has been imparted to him by the wise woman...

Pathos in Greek meant the passions, or suffering, or deep feeling generally, as distinguished from ethos, a person's overall disposition...

A phrase invented by John Ruskin in 1856 to signify any representation of inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human...

The originator of the pastoral was the Greek poet Theocritus, who in the third century B.C. wrote poems representing the life of Sicilian...

Pantomime is acting on the stage without speech, using only posture, gesture, bodily movement, and exaggerated facial expression to mime...

A poem or poetic passage in which the poet renounces or retracts an earlier poem or type of subject matter. An elaborate and charming...

A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure. As Norman Maclean...

These are written to celebrate or memorialize a specific occasion, such as a birthday, a marriage, a death, a military engagement or...

This term, which had been coined by the American painter and poet Washington Allston (1779-1843), was introduced by T. S. Eliot, rather...

The poet John Keats introduced this term in a letter written in December 1817 to define a literary quality "which Shakespeare possessed...

John Dryden said in his Discourse Concerning Satire (1693) that John Donne in his poetry "affects the metaphysics," meaning that Donne...

"Melos" is Greek for song, and the term "melodrama" was originally applied to all musical plays, including opera. In early...

Meter is the recurrence, in regular units, of a prominent feature in the sequence of speech-sounds of a language. The four standard feet...

Unintended violation of standard diction or grammar which mistakenly uses a word in place of another that it resembles; the effect is...

Invective is the denunciation of a person by the use of derogatory epithets. Thus Prince Hal, in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV, calls the...

We already have done with Affective fallacy. Let's see what intentional fallacy is. Intentional Fallacy signifies what is claimed to be...

Imagism was a poetic vogue that flourished in England, and even more vigorously in America, between the years 1912 and 1917. It was...