Poetic Obituaries: Some of [Wallace] Martin's work included

defining critical literary terms such as metaphor and synecdoche, a figure of speech that uses part of a word for a whole meaning, for the Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms and the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Both of these handbooks are widely used by writers, according to Lipman.

Martin wrote for the top journals in his field such as The Bucknell Review and the Journal of Comparative Literature, for which he was also a board member.

He was also on the jury for the James Russell Loyal Prize, which is the most prestigious award that the Modern Language Association gives out for scholarship.

from The Independent Collegian: English department remembers the lives of two profs

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