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Starting Points: Guide to Poetry

REFERENCE BOOKS - Available for your use in the library, these books cannot be checked out.

R 808.81 G	Granger’s Index to Poetry	Indexes more than 50,000 poems by over 250 authors.
R 808.1 Poe	Poetry Criticism	Critical excerpts & biographical information on poets from around the world.
R 808.81 Mas	Masterplots II: Poetry Series	Synopses of and essays on selected poems.
R 808.81Top	The Top 500 Poems	Based on the collective choice of 400 critics, editors and poets. (At Reference Desk)
R 821 Chaucer	Chaucer A to Z	An encyclopedic resource on Chaucer’s works and achievements.
R 821.08 Ree	The Cassell Book of English Poetry	More than 1,000 of short poems chronologically arranged, by poets born before1900.
R 821.09 Oxf	The Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry	Guide to poetry, 1900-present, containing entries for 1500 poets.
R 928 Con	Dictionary of Literary Biography	Biographies of over 1000 poets.
R 928 V	Great Writers of the English Language: Poets	Bio-bibliographical guide to 500 major poets of the English language.

FINDING BOOKS AND OTHER LIBRARY MATERIALS/ Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 808, 809, 821, 822, 928

In addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library’s online catalog from the Library or home by going to our Web page www.wppl.org, then to Search Our Catalog. Good subject searches for this topic are poetry, poets, and poetics.

eBOOKS

You may also want to check out the collection of thousands of online books (eBooks) the Library offers located on the Web site www.netlibrary.com. Initially, you must open an account from Library computer terminals, but you will then be able to use the account from home as well. See a reference librarian for more details.

FINDING ARTICLES

The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing with your topic:

· The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature - Adult Reference R 050 R Search for articles on a subject within any given year.
· EBSCOhost and InfoTrac OneFile - Access from the Library or at home using your library card number at www.wppl.org.

Search for full text articles on these online databases using your choice of keywords. You can limit your search to a certain year or even a certain magazine.

WEBSITES

About.com's Poetry Pages	About.com's organized and multi-linked poetry pages. Much historical information.
The Academy of American Poets	Essays, biographies, poems, poetic forms, poems read by the authors & more from this esteemed organization.
The Drunken Boat	An online journal of international poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. Its name is from the Rimbaud poem.
Glossary of Poetic Terms	Several hundred poetic terms defined.
Modern American Poetry	A scholarly forum concentrating on essays addressing the works of 161 poets. Includes syllabi for teachers.
The Page	An eclectic mix of poems and articles from hundreds of the top contemporary journals and web sites.
The Poetry Archive	Poets read their own works. Resources for teachers & students, poetic forms, & theme finder. From England.
The Poetry Archives	A large collection of "classical" poetry. Search by author, title or first line of poem.
Poetry Daily	A new poem daily from the country's best poetry journals and books. News from the poetry world included.
Poetry Magazine	America’s premier poetry journal, publishing the country’s top poet’s since 1912.
Poetry 180	From the Library of Congress, a poem a day for American high schools by some of America’s top poets.
Poetry Society of America	Since its founding in 1910 America's top poets have belonged to the PSA. Open to all.
Verse Daily	A new poem every day from a variety of the country's new poetry books and journals.
See also our other Starting Points: Literary Criticism, and Shakespeare , or go to Literature found in our Good Web Sites.

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Updated: December 11, 2007