creative writing reference resources

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.