Poetry                        

A research guide: books, articles, web sites, & videos

 

 

 

 

·          How to Find Books in the ODU Library:  Search in the ODU Library Catalog. 

 

·          How to Find Books in Other OhioLINK Libraries: 
Search in the OhioLINK Library Catalog, or start your search in the ODU Library Catalog and then click on the OhioLINK button at the top of the results screen to search statewide.

 

·          To Help You Search in the Catalogs:
Guides and video tutorials are available online from the library’s Research Help page or in print by the library Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.

 

 

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

·          The New Oxford Book of American Verse.  R 811.008 E47n, 1976

·          The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse.  R 821.08 A517n, 1978

·          The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950.  R 821.08 O89n

·          Our Holidays in Poetry. R 394.26 H311o, 1968

·          The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse in America.  R 811.08 O89, 1985

·          The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation.  R 811.008 O89, 1995

·          The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918.  R 821.08 O89e, 1939

 

Bibliographies and Guides

·          Contemporary Women Poets.  R 811 C7676w

·          Humor in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature. A Reference Guide.

R 016.827 N712h

·          Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies.  
R 016.8209 H2294l, 2002

·          The Oxford Companion to English Literature.   R 820.9 H342o, 2000

·          The Variorum Edition of Poems of W.B. Yeats.   R 821.91 Y41va


Biographical Works

·          American National Biography.  Multiple volumes series.  R 920.073 A512n

·          Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources. R 811.540 C7672a

·          Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to-Z Guide. R 811 C7672a

·          Contemporary Poets. R 928 C761

·          An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers.  R 820.9928 E5636b

·          The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time.
R 809 B97311

·          Lives of the Poets. R 920 U611i

·          The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse. R 016.821 O26

·          World Poets.  R 809.1 W89375p 3 vols.

 

Concordances

·          Concordance to Five Middle English Poems.   R 821.1 K87

·          A Concordance to the Divine Comedy.   R 851.15 W684

 

Dictionaries

·          A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.  R  803 C893d, 1998

·          Dictionary of Poetic Terms. R 808.1 M9925d

·          Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters.  R 809.927 L332g

·          A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms.  R 803 C273m, 1999

·          Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms. R 808.1 P957

·          Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary. R 809.9109 T9715l

 

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

·          A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. R 821 C7381t, 2001

·          A Companion to Victorian Poetry. R 821.809 C7381v

·          Critical Survey of Poetry.  R 809.1 M194c 8 vols.

·          Encyclopedia of American Poetry. R 811.309 En193 v.1

·          Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century.   R 811.309 En193h

·          Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. R 809.1 P925

·          Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century.  R 803 E198w 4 vols.

·          The Explicator Cyclopedia. [20th century and traditional poetry] R 820.9 E96 3 vols.

·          Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.   R 803 M568

·          Oxford Companion to English Literature.  R 820.3 H342o, 2000

·          The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English.  R 821 O98

 

Guides to Specific Authors and Works

·          Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia.  R 803 B463re, 1996

·          Byron and the Bible: a compendium of Biblical usage in the poetry of Lord Byron. R 821.7 L863b, 1978

·          Chaucer A to Z.   R 821.1 R834c

·          A Companion to Homer’s Odyssey. R 883 M8345c

·          A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante.   R 851.1503 D192T

·          James Joyce A to Z: the essential reference to the life and work.  R 823.912 F223, 1996

 

Reference Resources Online

 

Literary Reference Center

Provides full-text access to many reference resources online, including:

·         Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature;

·         Beacham's six-volume Research Guide to Biography and Criticism;

·         Continuum’s encyclopedia’s of American, British, and children’s literature;

·         The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story;

·         The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature;  The Literary Encyclopedia; 

·         Masterplots and Masterplots II;Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and Magill's Literary Annual;

·         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.

 

Oxford Reference Online

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 Oxford Companion to African American Literature.

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.

 

African-American Poetry

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

 

NetLibrary

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·          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:
Guides and video tutorials are available online from the library’s Research Help page or in print
by the library Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler. If you need additional assistance,
ask a librarian.

 

 

Recommended Databases

 

Academic Search Complete

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.

·          American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography

·          American Literary Scholarship Biography

·          The Chaucer Review

·          Criticism

·          English Journal

·          English Literary Renaissance

·          Essays in Criticism

·          Forum for Modern Language Studies

·          The Intercollegiate Review

·          Journal of American Studies

·          Journal of Modern Literature

·          The Kenyon Review

·          Speculum

·          Studies in Romanticism

 

 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. 
Choose a TITLE search and type in the title of the journal or newspaper you desire.

 

·          The library's journals and magazines are located:
 
(1) In print in the Periodicals section on the top floor, arranged alphabetically by title
(2) Back issues in print (usually prior to 1960) in the Back Issues Room on the bottom floor
(3) In microfilm in cabinets behind the Periodicals section
 
A microfilm reader/printer (with free printing!) is also available on the top floor.
For more information, see the ODU Library Microfilm/Reader page at:

http://www.ohiodominican.edu/library/tour/microfilm/default.asp.

  • If you are looking for a specific article in a periodical, be sure to match issue number and YEAR/MONTH of the article to the information listed in our library catalog to make sure we have the specific issue of the journal/magazine you need.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

Collections of Full-text Poetry

·          Bartleby Verse - American and English Poetry 1250-1920, http://www.bartleby.com/verse

·          The EServer Poetry Collection  http://eserver.org/poetry

·          HyperEpos: Epic on the Internet  http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html

·          Luminarium: Medieval Renaissance, 17th Century http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

 

American Poetry and Poets

·          The Academy of American Poets  http://www.poets.org

·          African American Women Writers  http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

·          American Verse Project  http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse

·          The Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore  http://www.eapoe.org

·          Modern American Poetry  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/about.htm

·          Transcendentalists  http://www.transcendentalists.com

·          The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman

·          The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson  http://www.rwe.org

 

English Poetry and Poets

·          British Poetry 1780 – 1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

·          Romantic Circles  http://www.rc.umd.edu

·          Romanticism on the Net  http://www.ron.umontreal.ca

·          The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

·          The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org

·          Victorian Web Sites  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html

·          The William Blake Archive  http://www.blakearchive.org/main.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·          How to find Videos in the ODU Library: 

From the library homepage, click on Audiovisuals & Media, select ODU Library Catalog, and
search the catalog:

·        By KEYWORD and limit your search to MATERIAL TYPE: Audiovisuals

·        By AUTHOR or TITLE if you are looking for a specific actor, director, or title.

                          

Or from the library homepage, click on Audiovisuals & Media, select List of DVDs and Videos, and browse through the listing.

                           

·        How to find Online Videos: 

From the library homepage, click on Audiovisuals & Media, select Digital Media Center Databases, select DMC Databases, then scroll down until you see Digital Video Collection and click on OhioLINK Access only. Search by keyword or browse by subject.

 

 

Videos—A Selection
All videos are located in the Library’s Audiovisual (A/V) Materials collection on the top floor of Spangler.

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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

·          Bill Moyer’s The Power of the Word series: 808.81 P887, 1989 6 video cassettes

·          Poetry: A Beginner’s Guide.  811 P745, 1986

·          The Poetry Hall of Fame.  811.008 P7476h, 1994  4 video cassettes

 

American Poetry and Poets

·          The Language of Life series. 811.509 L2691, 1995  8 video cassettes

·          Paul Laurence Dunbar.  811.4 P324, 1992

·          Spoon River Anthology and a Poetic Portrait Gallery.  811.52 S66r,1997

·          Walt Whitman and the Civil War.  811.3 W615wa, 1997

·          The World of Emily Dickinson.  811 D553w, 1997

 

English Poetry and Poets

·          The Canterbury Tales.  821.17 C496ct, 1999

·          The Heroic Tradition.  821.08 H4323t, 1997

·          John Keats: Poet.  821.78 J65, 1973

·          John Keats: Poet, 1795-1821.  821.78 J65

·          The Lake Poets.  821.08 L1488p, 1998

·          Milton and His Time.  821.47 M662, 1985

·          Paradise Lost.  821.47 P222, 1996

·          The Poetry Hall of Fame.  811.008 P7476h, 1994  4 parts

·          Robert and Elizabeth Browning.  821.8 B885r, 1998

·          Stephen Spender.  821.912 S828, 1989

·          A Survey of English Poetry: Restoration and Augustan, 1660-1745.  821 R436, 1987

·          A Survey of English Poetry: The Later Twentieth Century.  821.914 L351, 1988

·          William Blake: Poet and Painter, 1757-1827.  821.6 W719, 1996

 

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