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Poetry
A
research guide: books, articles, web sites, & videos
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library: Search in the ODU Library Catalog.
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How to Find Books in Other OhioLINK Libraries:
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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
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The New
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The New
· Our Holidays in Poetry. R 394.26 H311o, 1968
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The Oxford Book of Children’s
Verse in
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The
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The
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
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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
· 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
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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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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
· 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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The
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
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The
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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
top of the page. ·
To Help You Search
in the Databases: |
Recommended Databases
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Articles and book reviews from many academic areas of study, including
arts and literature. Updated daily.
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.
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American Literature: A
Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography
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American Literary
Scholarship Biography
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The Chaucer Review
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Criticism
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English Journal
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English Literary
Renaissance
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Essays in Criticism
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Forum for Modern
Language Studies
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The Intercollegiate
Review
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Journal of American
Studies
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Journal of Modern
Literature
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The Kenyon Review
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Speculum
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Studies in Romanticism
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How Do You Find
Out if a Periodical Exists in this Library? ·
Use the ODU Library Catalog to
search for the title of the journal or newspaper you want to find.
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A portal to Internet
search engines and directories is available on the ODU Library’s Internet Search page. In addition, listed
below are web sites that may be of particular use to you in your information
search. Minimum recommended
criteria for evaluating websites: ·
Accuracy of the
information ·
Authority of the person
or group responsible for the information ·
When the information
was created and last updated For more
information, view Evaluating
Internet Sources & Search Tools on the
Internet Search page.
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See also these
related research guides: American Literature and Literary Analysis, English
Literature and Literary Analysis, Mythology/Folklore/Legend, and Shakespeare
Research.
Web Sites—A Selection
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Bartleby Verse - American and English Poetry 1250-1920, http://www.bartleby.com/verse
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The EServer Poetry Collection http://eserver.org/poetry
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HyperEpos: Epic on the Internet http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html
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Luminarium: Medieval Renaissance, 17th Century http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
American Poetry and Poets
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The
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African American Women Writers http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
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American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse
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The Edgar Allen Poe Society of
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Modern American Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/about.htm
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Transcendentalists
http://www.transcendentalists.com
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The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.rwe.org
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British Poetry
1780 – 1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
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Romantic Circles http://www.rc.umd.edu
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Romanticism on
the Net http://www.ron.umontreal.ca
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The Samuel
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The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org
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Victorian Web Sites http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html
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The William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/main.html
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How to find Videos in the ODU Library:
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See also these related
research guides: American Literature and Literary Analysis, English Literature
and Literary Analysis, Mythology/Folklore/Legend, and Shakespeare Research.
General
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Bill Moyer’s The Power of the Word
series: 808.81 P887, 1989 6 video cassettes
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Poetry: A Beginner’s Guide. 811
P745, 1986
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The Poetry Hall of Fame. 811.008 P7476h, 1994 4 video cassettes
American Poetry and Poets
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The Language of Life series. 811.509 L2691, 1995 8 video cassettes
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Paul Laurence Dunbar. 811.4 P324,
1992
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Walt Whitman and the Civil War.
811.3 W615wa, 1997
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The World of Emily Dickinson. 811
D553w, 1997
English Poetry and Poets
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The Canterbury Tales. 821.17 C496ct, 1999
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The Heroic
Tradition. 821.08 H4323t, 1997
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John Keats: Poet. 821.78 J65, 1973
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John Keats: Poet, 1795-1821. 821.78 J65
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The Lake
Poets. 821.08 L1488p, 1998
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The Poetry Hall of Fame. 811.008 P7476h, 1994
4 parts
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Robert and
Elizabeth Browning. 821.8 B885r, 1998
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Stephen Spender. 821.912 S828, 1989
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A Survey of English Poetry: Restoration and Augustan, 1660-1745. 821 R436, 1987
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A Survey of English Poetry: The Later Twentieth Century. 821.914 L351,
1988
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William Blake:
Poet and Painter, 1757-1827. 821.6 W719,
1996
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