Poetry Research Guide

 This guide will point you to many of the library's resources in poetry and will link you to additional resources. If you need help with your research ask a librarian. 

Databases 

Search library databases for journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, case studies, editorials, reports, reviews, and other documents. The following databases are recommended for research in theology. 

Most Frequently Used Databases in Literary Scholarship:

• Contemporary Literary Criticism  
• Humanities International Complete  
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences  
• MLA International Bibliography  

Most Frequently Used Databases for Finding Poetry:

• American Poetry 
• English Poetry 
• 20th Century African-American Poetry 
• 20th Century American Poetry 
• 20th Century English Poetry 

Additional databases are available from our Databases for English.
Or select other databases from all database options.

Are you looking for an article you can't find from the links above?

• Request an item through Interlibrary Loan | Help 
• Ask a librarian 

Help Using the Databases

• Literary Reference Center Guide & Video (4 min) 

Additional database guides and tutorials are available 

Reference & Books

Select from the following reference works to find dictionaries and encyclopedias on poetry. 

• Anthologies 
• Biographical Works 
• Concordances 
• Dictionaries 
• Encyclopedias 

Reference Online

• Literary Reference Center 
• Oxford English Dictionary 
• Oxford Reference Online 
• African-American Poetry 
• American Poetry 
• English Poetry 
• English Verse Drama 
• EBSCO eBook Collection 

Journals

• Browse select literature journals using the ODU Library Catalog 
• Search for a journal in the ODU Library Catalog 
• Search for a journal using more options 

Books and Ebooks

Library Catalogs

• ODU Library Catalog - search for books, ebooks, and other materials in ODU Library and online 
• OhioLINK Library Catalog - search for materials statewide from 89 academic libraries 
• Library Catalog Guides & Tutorials 

Where to Browse in the Library

Books and other materials can be found in ODU Library's Reference Stacks, Reference Atlases, and Main Stacks in the following ranges of the Dewey Decimal System: 200s (theology) and 900s (history).  

• Request an item through Interlibrary Loan | Help 
• Ask a librarian 

Videos

• Search for a video in the library 
•  Search for videos on the web: Google Videos | Additional Video Search Engines 

Web Sites

Visit the following sites for authoritative information on poets and their poetry.

Collections of Full-text Poetry

• Bartleby Verse- American and English Poetry 1250-1920 
• The EServer Poetry Collection 
• HyperEpos: Epic on the Internet 
• Luminarium: Medieval Renaissance, 17th Century 

American Poetry and Poets

• The Academy of American Poets 
• African American Women Writers 
• American Verse Project 
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore 
• Modern American Poetry  
• Transcendentalists 
• The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive  
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 

English Poetry and Poets

• British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions 
• Romantic Circles 
• Romanticism on the Net 
• The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive 
• The Victorian Web 
• Victorian Web Sites 
• The William Blake Archive 

 Past last updated: 18 April 2013 | ODU Library Reference Services