Tools of the Trade Laurie Recommends
A good dictionary and thesaurus (an Oxford English Dictionary is a big plus)
The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary
Foreign language dictionaries, especially Spanish, French, German, Italian.
The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, Macmillan, 1979.
Blue Book of Basic Writing, John D. Nesbitt, Endeavor Books, 2000.
The Describer’s Dictionary, David Grambs, Norton, 1993.
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary, Clement Wood, editor, Laurel/Dell, 1991.
Twenty-first Century Synonym and Antonym Finder, Barbara Ann Kipfer, editor, Dell 1993.
A Handbook to Literature, William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Ted Kooser, University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Alfred Corn, Story Line Press, 1998.
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