Creative Writing Reference Resources
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Reference Resourcesfor Creative Writing
Sara Grozanick 2009
Mullen, Harryette. “Sleeping with the Dictionary.” Sleeping with the Dictionary. New California poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
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Language is nothing but meanings, and meanings are nothing but a flow of contexts.
The Basics: Dictionaries & Thesauri
• ferruginous• lambent• mortality• ossature
Resources for Perusal• scientific dictionaries
• law dictionaries (i.e. Black’s)
• art-related dictionaries
• word (mis)usage books
• euphemism dictionaries
• etymological dictionaries (i.e.Oxford, Barnhart)
• slang dictionaries
Digital Resources
• poets.org
• poetryfoundation.org• glossary• resources
• alphadictionary.com
For Further Inquiry
• Lewis, C. S. Studies in Words. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1967.
• Morton, Herbert Charles. The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1994.