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Poetry Review Resources
I. Poetry Reviews and Criticism
II. Poetry Indexes
B. Poetry Published in Periodicals
III. Online Poetry
IV. Biographical Resources for Poets
I. Poetry Reviews and
Criticism (Finding articles which discuss a Poem)
It is not always possible to find critical articles that
discuss every poem by every poet, even in the
case of major poets. In those instances where an individual
poem may not be explicated (analyzed), it is often possible
to find articles that discuss the poet's themes and style
more generally, and this may be relevant to discussion of
the poem in hand.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature.
(ABELL). Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey,
1998-.
ABELL indexes secondary materials for
English-language literatures, 1920-present. To search for
articles on individual poems, search for the poet as
"subject" and the poem as "title keyword" (e.g., "Stevens,
Wallace" as subject and "Sunday morning" as title keyword).
ABELL now links to some full-text articles.
Article Databases, 1920-present
MagillOnLiterature. [Hackensack, NJ] : Salem Press,
2000-.
MagillOnLiterature links to the full text of essays
drawn mainly from Magill's Masterplots series. To
find essays on individual poems, search the author
and/or title indexes.
Article Databases
Poetry Criticism. Detroit, MI : Gale Research Inc.,
c1991-.
A multi-volume set that provides "excerpts from criticism
of the works of the most significant and widely studied
poets of world literature." Each volume selects 8-10 poets
and reprints excerpts of criticism of their work. The most
recent volume indexes previous volumes.
Undergraduate Library Reference PN1010 .P449, v. 1-14
Coleman, Kathleen. Guide to French Poetry
Explication. New York : G.K. Hall : Maxwell Macmillan
International ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada,
1993.
Provides citations to criticism on individual poems
under author headings. Volumes in this Poetry Explication
series (cf. American and British below) are often the best
starting place for such criticism.
Davis Reference Desk PQ401 .C65 1993
Guide to American Poetry Explication. 2 v. Boston,
Mass.: G.K. Hall, c1989-. v.1 Colonial and Nineteenth
Century, ed. James Ruppert; v.2. Modern and
Contemporary, ed. John R. Leo.
Provides citations to criticism on individual poems
under author headings. Volumes in this Poetry Explication
series are often the best starting place for such
criticism.
Davis Reference Desk Z1231.P7 G85 1989, v. 1-2.
Martinez, Nancy C. and Joseph G.R. Martinez. Guide to
British Poetry Explication. 4 v. Boston, Mass. : G.K.
Hall, 1991-. v. 1. Old English, Medieval; v. 2.
Renaissance; v. 3. Restoration-Romantic; v.
4.Victorian-Contemporary.
Provides citations to criticism on individual poems
under author headings. Volumes in this Poetry Explication
series are often the best starting place for such
criticism.
Davis Reference Desk Z2014.P7 M34 1991, v. 1-4.
II. Poetry Indexes (Finding where a Poem has been published)
A. Poetry in Anthologies, Collected and Selected Works
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in
Anthologies. 12th ed. Ed. Tessa Kale. New York:
Columbia University Press, c2002.
Indexes poems published in anthologies. Includes indexes
for: Title, First Line, Last Line, Author and
Subject.
Davis Reference Desk PN1022 .H39 2002
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and
Selected Works . Ed. Nicholas Frankovich. New York:
Columbia University Press, c1996.
Indexes poems published in collected and selected works
(and some excerpted poems in anthologies). Indexes for:
Title, First Line, Author and Subject.
Davis Reference Desk PN1022 .C63 1996
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry CD-ROM [Release
3]. Ed. William Harmon. New York: Columbia University
Press, c1999.
The "Electronic Granger's, "this database contains
citations to 250,000 poems in 1,000 anthologies and 296
volumes of collected and selected works of individual
poets. Also, it contains the full text of 13,000 poems and
7,500 of "the most quotable excerpts from copyrighted
poems."
Davis Reference Electronic Resource 10-30
Hoffman, Herbert H. Hoffman's Index to Poetry: European
and Latin American Poetry in Anthologies. Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1985.
Intended as a supplement to Granger's.
Davis Reference PN1022 .H627 1985
Kline, Victoria. Last Lines: An Index to the Last Lines
of Poetry. 2 v. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
Indexes "approximately 171,000 poems originally written in
English or translated into English" and published in
anthologies between 1900 and 1987. Includes indexes for:
Last Line, Title, Author and Keyword.
Davis Reference PN1022 .K55 1991
Master Index to Poetry in Anthologies and
Collections. 2 v. Great Neck, N.Y.: Poetry Index Press,
c1988.
Indexes approximately 250,000 poems in anthologies and
collections. Indexes for: Author, Title, First Line,
Translator and Subject.
Davis Reference Desk PN1022 .M37 1988
Poem Finder on Disc [CD-ROM]. Great Neck, N.Y.: Roth
Pub., 1994.
This edition indexes more than 360,000 poems in English or
English translation from antiquity to the present. Indexes
anthologies, single-author collections and more than 100
periodical titles. Includes the full text of approximately
40,000 poems and is especially strong for recent
poetry.
Davis Reference Electronic Resource 10-282
B. Poetry Published in Periodicals
The American Humanities Index. [serial] Troy, N.Y.:
Whitson Pub. Co. v.1 spring/summer 1975-. Quarterly, with
annual cumulations.
Indexes poems (and short fiction, etc.) published in over
500 periodicals. Author and subject indexing. Individual
poems are alphabetized under the heading "Poems."
Davis Reference Row 18, v.1 1975-present.
Black literature, 1827-1940 Index on CD-ROM. Alexandria, Va. : Chadwyck-Healey Inc., [1994-]
An index to poetry, fiction, book reviews, and literary notices appearing in 900 black periodicals
for the period indicated. These are reproduced in the microfiche collection Black literature, 1827-1940 [Davis
Microfiche 1-3162].
Davis Reference Electronic Resources CD-ROM 10-49
A Calendar of American Poetry in the Colonial Newspapers and Magazines
and in the Major English Magazines through 1765. J. A. Leo Lemay.
Worcester [Mass.] American Antiquarian Society; [distributed by Barre Publishers, Barre, Mass.] 1972 [c1970]
Davis Reference Z1231.P7 L44 1972
Comprehensive Index to English-Language
Little Magazines, 1890- 1970, Series One. 8 v. Ed. Marion Sader.
Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus-Thomson Organization, 1976.
An index of 100 little magazines for the period indicated.
Indexing is by personal name, with further designations for
"Works By" and "Works About." [No other series
published.]
Davis Reference AI3 .S223
EBSCOHost Via NCLive . Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing,
[199-]-.
Choose the following 2 databases:
Academic Search Premier &
MasterFILE Premier . These index
both popular magazines and scholarly journals and provide
full-text access for many of them (mostly from about 1980 on). Search for poet as Author (e.g., merwin w s),
poem title keywords as Title (e.g., lament) and limit by Document Type = Poem.
To search for all poems by a specific author in the periodicals indexed, simply search poet as author and
limit Document Type to Poem.
Article Databases
Expanded Academic ASAP. [Farmington Hills, Mich.] :
Gale Group, [c1999]-
Expanded Academic indexes a number of popular
magazines and scholarly journals and provides full-text
access for many of them (approximately1980 to present). Use
"Advanced Search" and search for the poet as author and
title keywords to retrieve a specific poem or title keyword
"poem" to retrieve all poems by a particular poet (e.g., au
(merwin w s) and ti (poem)).
Article Databases
Index of American Periodical Verse. [serial]
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. 1971-present.
Annual.
Indexes almost 300 periodicals from Canada, the United
States and the Caribbean. Author and title/first line
indexes.
Davis Reference PN1021 .I5 1971-present.
Index to American Little Magazines. Troy, N.Y. : Whitston, 1969-1974.
Davis Reference AI3 .I54 [1900-1939]
Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines. Troy, N.Y. [etc.] Whitston Pub. Co. [etc.]
Davis Reference AI3 .I48 [1964/1965-1990/1992]
Index to Little Magazines. Denver : A. Swallow, 1949-c1970.
Davis Reference AI3 .I54 [1940-1966/67]
Index to Poetry in Periodicals, American Poetic Renaissance, 1915-1919:
An index of Poets and Poems Published in American Magazines and Newspapers.
Great Neck, N.Y. : Granger Book Co., c1981.
Davis Reference PS324 .I477 1981
Index to Poetry in Periodicals, 1920-1924:
An Index of Poets and Poems Published in American Magazines and Newspapers.
Great Neck, N.Y. : The Company, c1983.
Davis Reference PS324 .I478 1983
Index to Poetry in Periodicals, 1925-1929:
An Index of Poets and Poems Published in American Magazines and Newspapers .
Great Neck, N.Y. : The Company, c1984.
Davis Reference PS324 .I479 1984
Index to Poetry in Popular Periodicals, 1955-1959. Compiled by Jefferson D. Caskey.
Davis Reference Z1231 .P7 C37 1984
Index to Poetry in Popular Periodicals, 1960-1964 . Compiled by Jefferson D. Caskey.
Davis Reference Z1231 .P7 C372 1988
Periodicals Index Online (Formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index)
Periodical Index Online provides keyword indexing to the contents of over 4700 periodicals in the
humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to the most recent 4 or 5 years. Every article is indexed.
The scope is international, and includes separate records for approximately 15 million journal articles across
37 subject areas and 44 languages and dialects.
Search poet as Author and poem title as Title (e.g. Author = crane, hart
and Title = broken tower).
Article Databases
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature Via
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Limit to Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) and search exact words, all words for poet/title and
the word "poem" (e.g., longfellow poem)
Article Databases
Reader's Guide Retrospective. H.W. Wilson Company,
c1997-2001.
An index to approximately 500 popular periodical titles.
This electronic index will soon be fully retrospective and
cover the period 1890-1982. Use "Search Plus" to search by
author or title and limit "Article type" to Poem.
Article Databases
III. Online Poetry (Finding an online copy of a Poem)
Literature Online(LION). Alexandria,
Va. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1996-.
LION is a fully searchable database of more than
350000 English-language works of poetry, drama and prose.
It also provides links to biographies, bibliographies and
reference works. LION may be searched collectively
or as individual literature collections (see below).
Editions used tend to be "original English spelling"
versions, which can be especially problematic for early
texts. Use author and title "browse" indexes to identify
specific poems.
Article Databases
Individual Poetry Collections within LION (see Individual Literature Collections at the bottom of the LION Homepage for a more complete listing of LION components and additional databases):
20th Century African American Poetry.
Features 10,000 poems by approximately 70 African American
poets of the 20th century.
Article Databases
20th Century American Poetry.
Includes more than 50,000 poems by over 300 20th century
American poets.
Article Databases
20th Century English Poetry.
A collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from
1900 to the present, including poets in The Faber Poetry
Library.
Article Databases
African American Poetry (1750-1900).
Contains nearly 3,000 poems written by African American
poets of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Article Databases
American Poetry (1600-1900).
Includes over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American
poets.
Article Databases
Canadian Poetry
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at
the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique
collection currently contains the full text of more than
12,000 poems by 142 Canadian poets.
Article Databases
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
(1591-1911)
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge
edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary
printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and
related works and more than one hundred adaptations,
sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth,eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
Article Databases
English Poetry, Second Edition.
Contains more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets from
the 8th century to the early 20th century.
Article Databases
The Faber Poetry Library.
Contains 140 volumes by 50 poets published by Faber over
70 years.
Article Databases
The W.B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995).
"The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including
poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between
1885 and 1995."
Article Databases
American Verse Project (University of Michigan Text Initiative)
Bartleby.com (select "Verse")
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (University of California, Davis)
The EServer Poetry Collection (University of Washington)
Modern American Poetry(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Representative Poetry On-Line (University of Toronto)
Victorian Women Writers Project
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions
of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies,
novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
IV.
Biographical Resources for Poets
There are numerous biographical resources for poets, past
and present. Below is a small selection from the many
available.
Literature Online (LION).
Alexandria, Va. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1996-.
LION now provides links to many author biographies,
and these are no longer limited solely to English-language
authors. Search/Browse "Find Authors" and select
Biography (where available).
Article Databases
MagillOnLiterature Plus. [Hackensack, N.J.] : Salem Press,
c2001-.
Drawn primarily from Magill's Critical Survey
series, this database provides overview articles on notable
world authors.
Article Databases
Contemporary Authors [serial]. Detroit : Gale
Research Company. 1962-present.
CA is an ongoing bio-bibliographical series
covering a broad range of authorship. Now available electronically through
Literature Resource Center
Davis Reference Row 3 Z1010 .C67
Contemporary Poets. 7th ed. Editor, Thomas Riggs;
with a preface by Diane Wakoski. Detroit: St. James Press,
c2001.
Davis Reference Desk PR603 .C6 2001
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Mich.:
Gale Research, 1978-present.
The DLB is an excellent ongoing bio-critical series
for authors. Each volume is published with a cumulative
author index for the series; therefore, the
highest-numbered volume will index the entire set. The text of the DLB (with a few illustrations)
is available electronically via
Literature Resource Center
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978-
Literature Resource Center
LRC provides full text access to many bio-critical essays. It is possible to search for individual
authors or Authors By Type (limiting to genre, ethnicity, nationality, etc.)
Article Databases
Notable Poets. 3 v. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press,
c1998.
Davis Reference PN1021 .N68 1998
World Poets. 3 v. Ron Padgett, editor in chief. New
York: Charles Scriber's Sons, c2000.
World Poets is comprised of revised essays from the
Scribner Writer Series and is aimed at younger
students. Includes essays on 107 poets and 15 essays on
themes, schools, etc.
Davis Reference PN1021 .W67 2000
IV. Poetry
Encyclopedias
There are many poetry handbooks and literary handbooks
generally. The New Princeton (below) is one of the
most authoritative and contains substantive essays on
national poetries, metrics, movements etc, but not on
individual poets except as mentioned in thematic essays.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors ;
Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner,
associate editors. Rev. ed. of: Princeton Encyclopedia
of Poetry and Poetics. c1986. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1993.
The New Princeton is now available electronically
via
Literature Online (LION) reference sources. From
LION, select "Search Criticism and Reference"
and then select "Reference." Select the New
Princeton from the scroll down menu of reference
sources.
Davis Reference Desk PN1021 .N39 1993
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