Why Write Haiku?

Why Write Haiku? and Other Words on Words is about the World of words. Anyone who has a serious interest in words and their place in the World should find it to be of interest. See details of CONTENT for more information.;CONTENT; Section One: SIX HONEST SERVING MEN. Questions posed include not only that of the title essay, but 'Who ere the Georgians?' and 'What is an Essay?':Section Two: TRIOLET. This one IS for the poets. It succintly tells the reader just what the selected types of poetry (from Ballads to Vers Libre) are, and how to tackle them. ;Section Three: LITERARY TERMS: Brief definitions of terms used in prose and poetry, from Accentual Verse to Zeitgeist. ;Section Four: WORDS ON WORDS: A playful look at the derivation, use and misuse of our language with words as diverse as 'sleazy' and 'egregious' ;Section Five: LIVING WORDS: Seventeen essays on literary biography. See the 'Reviews' section for more detail. ;[There is also an index of the 242 writers named in the text, from Dannie Abse to Oleg Zamyatin]