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POETRY
The Literature Resource Center of the Gale Publishing Corp. includes biographic and bibliographic information on almost all authors, as well as the full texts of criticism from a wide variety of resources and websites. Gale has purchased Twayne's and Scribners' author series, and this information is likewise included. To locate from the Library Webpage, choose 'L', then 'Libraries', then BCPL, then 'Encyclopedias, Magazines, and Newspapers', then 'Literary Databases', then ' Literature Research Center'. This is the best single source for criticism of individual authors. Also available through Enoch Pratt. Both systems require a library membership number (listed on the card they issue to permit you to borrow materials). Thus, you must have a library card to use library databases, but that card entitles you to access over $240,000 worth of databases as of Jan. 2002)
New Resources: we have added in-house access to Twayne's and Scribner's Writers Series. See Infotrac from Online Resources on the Library's site available to all school computers and with the password you have been given for home use.
Reference Books
A selection of books from BMS that support literary research
Links:
Academy of American Poets
Official site of the Academy; hear live poetry; includes interviews, criticism, resources for poetry writers.
American Verse Project
Electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
The Atlantic Online: Poetry Pages
Features recent poems published by the journal, some audio, and essays, interviews.
Bartleby.com: Verse
Don't be put off by the ads. This is a treasure-trove of poems, and some copyright free anthologies.
British Poetry, 1780-1910 (Fulltext)
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
Favorite Poem Project: Americans Saying the Poems They Love
Internet Poetry Archive Page
(Milosz, Heaney, Levine, Pinsky, M. Walker, Komunyakaa, R. Wilbur)
Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism
Literary criticism for many important authors and works.
Modern American Poetry
For each of over 200 poets, includes biographical and critical information, and the texts of some poetry. Includes criticism on particular poems more often than the overall scope of each author's work. Recommended for Poetry Research Paper
Poetry 180 - Poems to be read in high schools every day of the year; sponsored by Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of Congress.
Poetry for the Rest of Us: Nine Poets to Read All Year Long - from Salon.com; Kay Ryan, Mark Doty, Eamon Grennan, Galway Kinnell, George Evans, Sue Kwock Kim, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Pinsky, Kallarney Clary.
Poets' Corner - a massive collection of poetry (over 6,000 pieces) from almost 700 poets; also searchable.
Representative Poetry Online (Poetry and criticism)
Sonnet Central
Sonnets, essays, an annotated bibliography; traces development of form through to the early 20th century.
Sites for Understanding and Writing Poetry:
Poetry Writing Tips, by John Hewitt
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
References for Poetry Research
| Ref 803 D | Delahunty, Andrew. | The Oxford dictionary of allusions. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Ref 803 F | Fowler, Roger | A dictionary of modern critical terms. London, Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul [1973] |
| Ref 803 L | Lass, Abraham Harold | The Facts on File dictionary of classical, biblical, and literary allusions. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1987. |
| Ref 803 P | Encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1965. | |
| Ref 803 W | Webber, Elizabeth | Merriam-Webster's dictionary of allusions. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, c1999. |
| Ref 808.1 W | Williams, Miller | Patterns of poetry: an encyclopedia of forms. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1986. |
| Ref 808.81 W Supp. 1 | The World's best poetry. Great Neck, N.Y. : The Company, c1983-c1990 | |
| Ref 808.88 A | Auden, W. H | The Viking book of aphorisms. New York: Viking, c1962, 1966. |
| Ref 809 A v.I | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. New York: Scribner, c1974. | |
| Ref 809 B | Black writers: a selection of sketches from contemporary authors. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research, c1989. | |
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| Ref 809 M | Masterpieces of world literature. New York: Harper & Row, c1989. | |
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| Ref 809.1 C | Contemporary poets. St. Martin's Press, c1980 | |
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| Ref 809.1 W v.1 | World poets. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, c2000. | |
| Ref 809.8896 S | The Schomburg Center guide to black literature: from the eighteenth century to the present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. | |
| Ref 810.3 S | Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. | Encyclopedia of frontier literature. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 1997. |
| Ref 810.9 A V. 1 | American women writers: a critical reference guide from colonial times to the present. New York: Ungar, c1979-c1982. | |
| Ref 810.9 C | The Cambridge history of American literature. New York: Macmillan, c1917, 1964. | |
| Ref 810.9 C | Columbia literary history of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988 | |
| Ref 810.9 C | Contemporary Southern writers. Detroit: St. James Press, c1999. | |
| Ref 810.9 H | Harvard guide to contemporary American writing. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. | |
| Ref 810.9 H | Hart, James David | The Oxford companion to American literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. |
| Ref 810.9 L Hist | Literary history of the United States. New York, Macmillan, 1963-72. | |
| Ref 810.9 M | Masterpieces of African-American literature. New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1992. | |
| Ref 810.9 R | Reference guide to American literature. Detroit: St. James Press, c2000. | |
| Ref 810.9 T V. 1 | Twentieth-century American literature. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985-1988 | |
| Ref 811 E | Encyclopedia of American poetry. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. | |
| Ref 811.09 M | Malkoff, Karl. | Crowell's handbook of contemporary American poetry. New York, Crowell [1973] |
| Ref 811.09 W | Wagner, Jean | Black poets of the United States; from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1973] |
| REF 811.52 H | Ostrom, Hans A | A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. |
| Ref 820.3 O | Drabble, Margaret | The Oxford companion to English literature. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. |
| Ref 820.9 B, v.I | British writers. New York : Scribner, c1979-c1984 | |
| Ref 820.9 C v.1 | Bloom, Harold, ed. | The Critical perspective. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985-1989. |
| Ref 820.9 S | Sampson, George. | The concise Cambridge history of English literature. London, Cambridge U.P., 1970. |
| REF 820.9 T | Bloom, Harold, ed. | Twentieth-century British literature. |
| Ref 820.9 T v.1 | Bloom, Harold, ed. | Twentieth-century British literature. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985-1987. |
| Ref 820.9 T V. I | Temple , Ruth Zabriskie | Modern British literature. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1966-c1985] |
| REF 821.7 B | Damon, S. Foster | A Blake dictionary: the ideas and symbols of William Blake. Hanover, NH: Published for Brown University Press by University Press of New England, 1988. |
