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Poetry Research Guide
Looking for a particular poem? Need
help finding scholarly articles critiquing poetry? Researching a poet’s
biography? The following list of sources will help you get started locating
relevant resources in the Thomas Tredway Library. This research guide is
organized by question topics.
Where are the books of poetry?
I just want to browse that area.
Explore these call numbers on the
4th and 5th floors:
Multi-national Poetry
PN 1031 – 1525;
PN 6099 – 6110
French
PQ 1160 – 1193
Spanish
PQ 6175 – 6215
British
PR 500-681; PR 1170-1227
American
PS 301-325; PS 580 – 619
German
PT 500 – 597; PT 1151 – 1241
Swedish
PT 9375 – 9404; PT 9580 – 9599
The PN 1020 – PN 1350 section
discusses poetry in broad terms, such as its history and usage. You will see
titles such as:
The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms, PN 1021.N39 1994
How to Read a Poem, PN 1042.H48 1999
Twentieth-Century Women Poets, PN 1091.K53 1997
Poetry: Language and History, PN 1111.P65 1986 (video)
A World Treasury of Oral Poetry, PN 1345.W6
PS 501.P8 is home to an annual publication titled The Pushcart Prize.
This is an anthology of the year’s best original compositions, including poetry,
published by small presses.
Which journals/periodicals publish poems and articles about poetry?
Antioch Review
American Poetry Review
American Scholar
Iowa Review
Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Poetry
Salmagundi
Victorian Poetry
I am looking for a particular
poem. How do I find it?
If you know the title, first
line, last line, author or subject of a poem and want to know where you can find
it, use an index to poetry. This will point you to the anthology, collected or
selected work where the poem appears. Note: a call number with “REF” refers to
the Reference section on 2nd floor of the library.
Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry (9 volumes)
REF PN 1022.G7 and REF PN 1022.H39
Index to Children’s Poetry (3 volumes)
REF PN 1023.B72
Index to Poetry for Children and Young People (3 volumes)
REF PN 1023.B723
Last Lines: An Index to the Last Lines of Poetry (2 volumes)
REF PN 1022.K55 1991
Where can I find biographical
information and critical commentaries on poets?
Contemporary Literary Criticism (over 200 volumes)
REF PN771.C5
This huge set of volumes contains reprinted criticism of writers. To find a poet, look in the author index in the latest volume on the shelf. This index will tell you what individual volumes contain material on that poet. (A poet may be included in more than one volume.) You will find the full text of book reviews, interviews, and critical commentary on the poet. Look in the front of the volume to see how to cite CLC in your paper.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (161+ volumes)
REF PN771.G27
If you are looking for information on a poet who is deceased, try this set rather than CLC. The format is the same as CLC.
Contemporary Poets
REF PR 603.C6 1995
Contemporary Women Poets
REF PS 151.C67 1998
Critical Survey of Poetry
(8 volumes)
REF PN 1021.C7 2002
Encyclopedia of American
Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
REF PS 316.E63 1998x
Great Writers of the English
Language: Poets
REF PR 502.P65 1979
Contemporary Authors (accessible online via the library website under
the link to “Languages
& Literature”)
I’d like introductory
information on poetry terms, movements, and time periods. Where can I find this?
Longman Dictionary of Poetic
Terms
REF PN 1042.M94 1989
New Princeton Encyclopedia of
Poetry and Poetics
REF PN 1021.N39 1993
Oxford Companion to
Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
REF PR 601.O9 1994
Poet’s Dictionary
REF PN 44.5.P3 1989
Teachers and Writers Handbook
of Poetic Terms
REF PN 1042.T43 1987
African-American Poetry,
1760-1900
CD-ROM available at library reference desk
I need scholarly articles that
deal with poets and poetry. Where should I look?
If you are researching a poem and
need to know what the “critics” have to say about it, try these sources. They
will point you to scholarly examinations of the poem and articles about the
poet’s body of work as a whole.
American and British Poetry: A
Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978
REF PS 303.A44 1985
Poetry by American Women,
1900-1975: A Bibliography
REF PS 151.R5
Poetry Explication: A
Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and
Present
REF PR 508.K89 1980
Essay & General Literature Index (accessible online via the library
website under the link to “Languages
& Literature”)
Tip: Search by poet’s name for critical reviews on his or her work or click on
the “Subjects” tab and type “Poetry” into the Browse bar for a list of poetry
subject headings. ( Note: Print indexes of this index cover articles from 1900 –
1984 are available in the center reference section on 2nd floor.)
MLA Bibliography (accessible online via the library website
under the link to “Languages
& Literature”)
Note: You can limit your search to “Poetry” under the Genre option.
I’m interested in publishing a
poem. Where can I find information about how to do this?
Poet’s Market: 1,800 Places to
Publish Your Poetry
REF PN 1059.M3 P59 1998
Created by Amanda Makula,
Librarian
Last updated: April 28, 2006
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