Poetry
A
research guide: books, articles, web sites, & videos
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Reference Books—A Selection
Reference books provide a good starting point for
your research. Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference
collection, behind the Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.
See also these
related research guides: American Literature and Literary Analysis, English
Literature and Literary Analysis, Mythology/Folklore/Legend, and Shakespeare
Research.
Anthologies
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The New Oxford Book of American
Verse. R 811.008 E47n, 1976
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The New Oxford Book of
English Light Verse. R 821.08 A517n,
1978
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The New Oxford Book of
English Verse, 1250-1950. R 821.08 O89n
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Our Holidays in Poetry. R
394.26 H311o, 1968
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The Oxford Book of Children’s
Verse in America. R 811.08 O89, 1985
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The Oxford Book of Classical
Verse in Translation. R 811.008 O89, 1995
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The Oxford Book of English
Verse, 1250-1918. R 821.08 O89e, 1939
Bibliographies
and Guides
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Contemporary Women
Poets. R 811 C7676w
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Humor in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
British Literature. A Reference Guide.
R 016.827 N712h
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Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of
Reference Sources in English Literary Studies.
R 016.8209 H2294l, 2002
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The Oxford Companion
to English Literature. R 820.9 H342o,
2000
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The Variorum Edition
of Poems of W.B. Yeats. R 821.91 Y41va
Biographical Works
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American National Biography. Multiple volumes series. R 920.073 A512n
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Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives,
Works, Sources. R 811.540 C7672a
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Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to-Z Guide. R 811
C7672a
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Contemporary Poets. R 928 C761
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An Encyclopedia of
British Women Writers. R 820.9928 E5636b
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The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most
Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time.
R 809 B97311
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Lives of the Poets. R 920 U611i
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The Poets of Ireland: A
Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse.
R 016.821 O26
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World Poets.
R 809.1 W89375p 3 vols.
Concordances
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Concordance to Five Middle English Poems. R 821.1 K87
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A Concordance to the Divine Comedy. R 851.15 W684
Dictionaries
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A
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. R 803
C893d, 1998
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Dictionary
of Poetic Terms. R 808.1 M9925d
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Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters. R 809.927 L332g
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A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary
Terms. R 803 C273m, 1999
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Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms. R 808.1 P957
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Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary. R 809.9109 T9715l
Encyclopedias
and Handbooks
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A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. R 821 C7381t, 2001
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A Companion to Victorian Poetry. R 821.809 C7381v
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Critical Survey of Poetry. R 809.1 M194c
8 vols.
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Encyclopedia of American Poetry. R 811.309 En193 v.1
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Encyclopedia of
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century.
R 811.309 En193h
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Encyclopedia of Poetry
and Poetics. R 809.1 P925
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Encyclopedia of World
Literature in the 20th Century.
R 803 E198w 4 vols.
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The Explicator
Cyclopedia. [20th century and traditional poetry] R 820.9 E96 3
vols.
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia
of Literature. R 803 M568
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Oxford Companion to
English Literature. R 820.3 H342o, 2000
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The
Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English. R 821 O98
Guides to Specific Authors and Works
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Benet’s Reader’s
Encyclopedia. R 803 B463re, 1996
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Byron and the Bible: a compendium of Biblical usage in the poetry of Lord
Byron. R 821.7 L863b, 1978
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Chaucer A to
Z. R 821.1 R834c
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A Companion to
Homer’s Odyssey. R 883 M8345c
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A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante. R 851.1503 D192T
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James Joyce A to Z: the essential reference to the life and work. R 823.912 F223, 1996
Reference Resources Online
Provides
full-text access to many reference resources online, including:
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Merriam Webster's
Encyclopedia of Literature;
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Beacham's
six-volume Research Guide to Biography and Criticism;
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Continuum’s
encyclopedia’s of American, British, and children’s literature;
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The New
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and The Columbia Companion to the 20th
Century American Short Story;
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The Oxford
Illustrated History of English Literature; The Literary Encyclopedia;
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Masterplots
and Masterplots II;Cyclopedia of World
Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary
Characters, and Magill's
Literary Annual;
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The Harold Bloom series
of over 500 books; and additional resources of information
on notable authors of long and short fiction, poetry, drama, and philosophy.
Oxford
English Dictionary
Full-text. Offers access to the online,
historical dictionary of the English language.
Traces the usage of words from a wide range of international English
language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film
scripts and cookery books. Updated
quarterly.
To access: From the library homepage, click on Articles in Databases, select English Language and Literature, then choose Contemporary Authors.
Full-text dictionaries
and other reference books in one searchable database. Includes literature
guides. Example: Find an entry on the children’s author Eloise Greenfield in The Concise
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
Primary Literature Online Full-text
To
access:
From the library homepage, click on Articles in Databases, select English Language and Literature, then
choose the database you desire.
Full-text. Includes 3,000
full-text and fully searchable poems by African American poets of the 18th
and 19th centuries (1760-1900).
Users can trace the occurrence of a word or concept across the works of
one poet or the entire database.
American
Poetry
Full-text. Features 40,000 poems by 200
major American from the 17th to the early 20th century (1600-1900). A selection of anthologies is also included.
English
Poetry
Full-text. Assembles over 160,000 poems
by 1,350 poets written in English from 600 to 1900.
English
Verse Drama
Full-text. Contains more than 2,200
works of poetry intended for the stage from 1400 to 1900.
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including
reference books, other nonfiction, and fiction. Search by keyword, title, or
author.
To access: From the library homepage, click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
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Use an online
research database to find articles in scholarly journals, general magazines,
and newspapers. ·
To access the
databases below, from the Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the English Language
& Literature--Poetry category, or choose from the A-Z index near the
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Humanities
International Complete
Covers articles, essays and reviews, as
well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs,
paintings, and illustrations—all in the disciplines of the humanities.
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Citations only. Presents books,
articles, reviews, essays, and critical editions of literary works in English
studies. British, American, and
Commonwealth writing are all represented.
MLA
International Bibliography
Citations only. Catalogs books and
articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Information about the libraries that own the library resources is also
included. Updated 10 times per year.
Finding Periodicals in this
Library
Listed below are some
education periodicals available in the ODU Library.