Excellent reference book!
This book is such a great reference! It's an excellent guide for writing the old fashioned, classical forms of poetry: sonnets, sestinas, etc, etc. It includes all kinds of poetry formats that I hadn't even heard of-- it's very thorough. For each style of poetry, you get the rhyme pattern, an example poem, and a little bit of history about it.This isn't the kind of book you would read cover to cover like a novel or anything, but it's a very valuable reference. I'm an English major with a creative writing emphasis, and I have had a great time working with this book!