POETRY         

SELECTED REFERENCE SOURCES FOR CRITICISM: PRESTON RIDGE CAMPUS

            Reference Books

PS 92 C34 1994                      The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8: Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995

PN 6082 C57 1992                 The Columbia Granger’s Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

PN 1022 H39 1994b              The Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry

PS 303 D56 1994                   Directory of American Poetry Books

PS 316 E53 1998                    Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century

PN 1110.5 M37 1992             Masterplots II: Poetry Series

PN 1021 N39 1993                 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

PN 761 N56                            Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

PN1021 N68 1998                  Notable Poets

PR 1174 N6 1996                   The Norton Anthology of Poetry

PR 601 O9 1994                     The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

PN 1010 P499                        Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely                                               Studied Poets of World Literature

PN1101 P756                         Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry

PR 2965 S43                           Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry,

PN 771 G27                        Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 

            Circulating Books

Contemporary Poets.  PS325 C66 1986.
The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry.  PS584 C66 1995.
An Introduction to Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Drama.  PN6014 I498 2001.
Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies.  PE1479 C7 L955 2004
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms.  PR1175 M275 2001.
Norton Introduction to Poetry.  PN6101 N6 2002.

Also try out these Online Databases:

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry includes thousands of poems in full-text, thousands of excerpts from poems, and more than a hundred thousand poem citations.  It also consists of commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of prosodic terms.

Gale Literary Index is a master index to the major literature series published by the Gale Group.  It is a free resource on the Internet at http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex.

Literature Resource Center offers critical analysis of the lives and works of 90,000 novelists, poets, and other writers from every age and literary discipline.

20^th Century American Poetry the collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes.

20^th Century English Poetry a collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman.

Internet Resources

The Academy of American Poets

Gale Group Poet’s Corner

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection

Our World of Poetry

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