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Selected Books and Indexes
Literary Criticism Index
Magill Index to Critical Surveys
American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism
Critical Survey of Poetry
Guide to American Poetry Explication
Columbia Granger's Index to PoetryFor finding individual poems by title or subject.
Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in AnthologiesFor finding individual poems by title or subject.
Columbia Granger's Index to African-American PoetryFor finding individual poems by title or subject.
Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected WorksFor finding individual poems by title or subject.
Masterplots II. Poetry SeriesFor finding summaries of poems.
Magill's Bibliography of Literary CriticismSearch the Library Catalog
Introduction to Literary Criticism of Poetry
This guide addresses the need for literary criticism for beginning literary critics. It provides resources for finding poems, for getting summaries, reviews, and criticism or explication of poetry.
Recommended Databases
MLA International Bibliography
Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, creative writing, English, folklore, film, foreign languages and literatures, literary theory & criticism, theatre, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
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JSTOR
Scholarly journals in anthropology, art, art history, communication studies, criminology, ecology, economics, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, geography, geology, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, public and international affairs, religion, social work, sociology, statistics, theatre, and other humanities and social sciences.
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American Poetry
Over 40,000 poems by American poets from the Colonial Period to the early 20th century.
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African-American Poetry
Contains nearly 3,000 poems from African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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American Poetry (20th Century)
50,000 poems by American poets from the early 20th century to the present.
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African-American Poetry (20th Century)
Contains nearly 9,000 poems from African American poets of the 20th century.
[More details]The Faber Poetry Library provides access to the works of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. It contains the works of many of the greatest poets currently read and studied.
Gale Literary Sources
Presents industry-leading literature content, including criticism, biographies, reference articles, reviews, primary sources, plot analysis, explication, and multimedia. Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Searches across Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Criticism Online and Something About the Author Online.
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LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
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Poets.org
Poets.org currently features biographies of more than 2,000 poets and more than 6,000 poems.
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Internet Poetry Archive
The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.
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Representative Poetry Online
A web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years.
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