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LIBRARY
Poetry Resources |
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| NONFICTION | |
| 808.1 BRO | Understanding poetry |
| 808.1 PER | Sound and sense, : an introduction to poetry |
| 808.8 Blo | Stories and poems for extremely intelligent children of al ages |
| 808.81 ADS | An inheritance of poetry |
| 808.81 AME | Americans' favorite poems : the Favorite Poem Project anthology |
| 808.81 COM | Committed to memory : 100 best poems to memorize |
| 808.81 FEL | The best loved poems of the American people |
| 808.81 HAS | Poet's choice : poems for everyday life |
| 808.81 NOR | The Norton anthology of poetry |
| 808.81 NYE | I feel a little jumpy around you : paired poems by men & women |
| 808.81 ONE | One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement : an anthology |
| 808.81 POE | The poetry of dogs : a collection |
| 808.81 SCA | Scanning the century : the Penguin book of the twentieth century |
| 808.81 THE | The best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| 808.81 VAN | An anthology of world poetry |
| 808.81 WOR | World poetry : an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time |
| 809.1 BLO | Poets and poems |
| 809.1 SCH | Young adult poetry : a survey and theme guide |
| 810.8 KEN | Patriot's Handbook : songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love |
| 810.8 WOR | African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama |
| 811 ALC | The poems of Louisa May Alcott. |
| 811 AME | American Negro poetry |
| 811 AME | American poetry |
| 811 BER | The body electric : America's best poetry from the American poetry review |
| 811 COR | You remind me of you : a poetry memoir. |
| 811 CUM | Collected poems, 1922 – 1938 |
| 811 DIC | Judge tenderly of me |
| 811 DIC | Collected poems of Emily Dickinson |
| 811 DIC | Emily Dickinson |
| 811 DOV | Selected poems |
| 811 FRO | The aim was song |
| 811 HAR | The Harvard book of contemporary American poetry |
| 811 KER | Book of blues |
| 811 KER | A book of Haikus |
| 811 MAS | Spoon River anthology |
| 811 NEW | The new young American poets : an anthology |
| 811 POE | Poetry of the American renaissance : a diverse anthology from the romantic period |
| 811 POS | Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology |
| 811 SOT | A fire in my hands |
| 811 SOT | New and selected poems |
| 811 SOT | Canto familiar |
| 811 SOT | Junior college |
| 811 SOT | One kind of faith |
| 811 SPO | The spoken word revolution : (slam, hip hop, & the poetry of a new generation) |
| 811 VEN | Poems, Poets, Poetry : An Introduction and Anthology |
| 811 WHE | Phillis Wheatley |
| 811 WHI | Leaves of grass |
| 811 WHI | The song of himself |
| 811.008 BES | The best American poetry |
| 811.008 COL | The Columbia anthology of American poetry |
| 811.008 COL | The Columbia book of Civil War poetry |
| 811.008 KEI | Good poems for hard times |
| 811.008 POE | Poetry of the American West : A Columbia Anthology |
| 811.008 THR | Three centuries of American poetry, 1620-1923 |
| 811.008 VIN | The Vintage book of African American poetry |
| 811.08 MOD | Modern American Poetry and Modern British Poetry |
| 811.3 LOW | The poetical works of James Russell Lowell |
| 811.4 DIC | An Emily Dickinson sampler |
| 811.44 DIC | Favorite poems of Emily Dickinson |
| 811.52 AME | American poetry, 1915 - 1945 |
| 811.52AUD | W. H. Auden |
| 811.52 LOW | Robert Lowell |
| 811.54 CON | Contemporary American women poets : an A-to-Z guide |
| 811.6 HEA | Heart to heart : new poems inspired by twentieth-century American art |
| 814 EMR | Essays and poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 818 POE | The complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe |
| 821 FOR | Sincerity's shadow: self-consciousness in Brisih romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry |
| 821 HEA | Opened ground : selected poems, 1966-1996 |
| 821.008 MAK | The making of a poem |
| 921 KER | Book of dreams |
| 921 KER- | Desolate angel |
| 921 SOT | Living up the street: narrative recollections |
| REFERENCE | |
| REF 808 GRA | Granger's Index to poetry |
| REF 810.9AME | American writers |
| REF 810.9 AME | American women writers |
| REF 810.9 CON | Concise Dictionary of Americn Literary Biography |
| REF 810.9 TWE | Twentieth century American literature |
| REF 811 | Encyclopedia of American Poetry : The 20th Century |
| REF 821 POE | Poets : American and British |
| REF 920 WOR | World poets |
| DATABASES |
| The American National Biography |
| A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name. |
| http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html |
| Columbia Granger’s Poetry |
| Columbia Granger's Poetry Database contains works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets. |
| http://search.epnet.com |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Lit Finder |
| LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, full-text short stories, full-text essays, full-text speeches, and 1full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. |
| www.litfinder.com |
| Literature Resource Center |
| Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Scribner Writers Series Online |
| Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Twayne's Authors Online |
| Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Websites |
| The American Verse Project |
| The University of Michigan has created an online collection of American poetry up to 1920. |
| http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/ |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Explores the life of Longfellow. |
| http://dlstewart.com/longfellow/ |
| Modern American Poetry |
| Get biographies of 161 modern American poets from this site. |
| http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ |
| PoemHunter |
| A website that allows you to search for poems poets, lyrics, and quotations |
| www.poemhunter.com |
| Poems.com |
| This site features contemporary poems daily |
| www.poems.com |
| Poetry and Music of the War Between the States |
| Contains a collection of poems written during the Civil War by Northern and Southern poets. |
| http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/ |
| Poets.org |
| Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. |
| www.poets.org |
| Poet's Corner |
| A collection of over 6700 poems from poets all over the world. |
| http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/ |
| Poet Seers |
| There's a lot here to browse. You can read poems and learn about a variety of poets and their works. |
| http://www.poetseers.org/ |
| Representative Poetry On-Line |
| Over 3000 poems by 500 poets can be found here as well as a glossary of poetic terms, criticism, and a timeline of the history of English poetry. It is hosted by the University of Toronto. |
| http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/intro.cfm |
| SEARCH ENGINES |
| Ask.com |
| Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank. I |
| www.ask.com |
| CITATION AIDS |
| Easybib |
| The free automatic bibliography composer. |
| Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| Works Cited Guidelines (MLA 6th edition) |
| Probably the best site for learning how to document sources, both in print and electronic format. Very clear. |
| http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tcraig/wc.html |
| Research and Documentation Online |
| Link for documenting sources in research papers. |
| http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ |
| The OWL at Purdue:MLA Formatting and Style Guide |
| Excellent resource for MLA formatting with many good examples of papers, works cited pages, etc. |
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html |
