This is a longer, and possibly better, list than Ezra Pound's, which includes three genres only: logopoeia, melopoeia, and phanopoeia. Pound's phanopoeia (the poetry of images) might, of course, be added to the list, or it might be understood as one variety of the poetry of ideas. And ethopoeia may, I grant, seem like a strange and suspect name for something all too obvious and familiar. Ethopoeia is at present the dominant genre of poetry in English and most other Indo-European languages - so dominant perhaps that it seems not to need a name. But it was only a minor genre in early Greek. And
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