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American and British Poetry: A Guide to the CriticismPS303 .A45 1984
Located in the General Collection
Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in AnthologiesPN1022 .H39 2007
Located in Reference Collection
American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop / Tyler HoffmanTo access this eBook, click on the title
A History of American Poetry / Richard GrayTo access this eBook, click on the title
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max CavitchTo access this eBook, click on the title
Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry PS310.H66 V46 2002
Located in the General Collection
A Companion to Medieval Poetry / Corinne Saunders, Ed.To access this eBook, click on the title
A History of African American Poetry / Lauri RameyTo access this eBook, click on the title
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry / Catherine Bates, Ed.To access this eBook, click on the title
A Companion to British Literature / Robert Demaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, Eds.To access this eBook, click on the title
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.
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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
Archive of selected 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.
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English Poetry
Contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
[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
Resource makes available the works from contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
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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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