A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. * Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea * Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings * The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres * Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics