Poetry

 

To locate POETRY:

 

SEARCH the **Card Catalog using poet's name, both an AUTHOR search and a KEYWORD search. This will locate entire volumes of the author's poetry as well as poetry in collections.

 

Use LITFINDER (a subscription database). It contains full text poems as well as some biographical information about the poet.

 

Web Pages for Poetry:

 

Representative Poetry Online        http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm          

Academy of American Poets           www.poets.org/          

Bartleby                                           http://www.bartleby.com/verse/       

Modern American Poetry                 www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm         

 

To locate BIOGRAPHICAL Information:

 

**BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER (subscription database)

• REF 809 DIC **Dictionary of Literary Biography        

• REF 920 ENC Encyclopedia of World Biography        

• REF 920 KUN Author Series:  American, British, European, etc.        

 

**GALE STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER (subscription database) This online resource has a literature component that will provide biographical essays about prominent artists.

 

To locate CRITICAL ANALYSIS:

 

SEARCH the **Card Catalog using poet's name and a SUBJECT search to locate books about the poet and his work.

 

• REF 809.1 CRI Critical Survey of Poetry        

• REF 809.2 WOR World's Poetry        

• REF 809.1 NOT Notable Poets        

• REF 810.9 AME American Writers        

• REF 820.9 BRI British Writers        

 

**GALE STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER (subscription database). Literature component contains critical essays on poets.