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Starting
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Guide to Poetry
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Available for your use in the library,
these books
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808.81 G |
Granger’s
Index to Poetry |
Indexes more than 50,000 poems by
over 250 authors. |
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808.1 Poe |
Poetry
Criticism |
Critical excerpts &
biographical information on poets from around the world.
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808.81 Mas |
Masterplots II: Poetry
Series |
Synopses of and essays on
selected poems. |
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R 808.81Top |
The
Top 500 Poems
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Based on the collective
choice of 400 critics, editors and poets. (Behind Reference
Desk) |
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821 Chaucer |
Chaucer A to Z |
An encyclopedic resource
on Chaucer’s works and achievements. |
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821.08 Ree |
The
Cassell Book of English Poetry |
More than 1,000 of short
poems chronologically arranged, by poets born before1900. |
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821.08 Oxf |
The
Oxford Companion to 20th Century
Poetry |
Guide to poetry, 1900-present,
containing entries for 1500 poets. |
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928 Con |
Dictionary of Literary
Biography |
Biographies of over 1000
poets. |
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928 V |
Great Writers of the
English Language: Poets |
Bio-bibliographical guide
to 500 major poets of the English language. |
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F I N D I N G B O O K S & O T H E R L
I B R A R Y M A T E R I A L S/
Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 808, 809, 821, 822, 928 |
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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 - Search Our Catalog - in the upper right hand.
Good subject searches for this
topic are poetry,
poets, and
poetics. |
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e B O O K S |
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You may also
want to check out the collection of thousands of online books (eBooks)
the Library has to offer 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. Search
for employment and career books by the following categories: subject,
title, author. See a reference librarian for more detail. |
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The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing
with your topic:
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The Readers’ Guide to
Periodical Literature - Adult Reference
R 050 R.
Search for articles on a subject within any given year.
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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 in these databases using your choice of
keywords. You can limit your search to a certain year or
even a certain magazine.
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| W E B S I T E S
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About.com's
Poetry Pages |
About.com's
organized and multi-linked poetry pages. Much historical
information. |
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The
Academy of American Poets |
Essays, biographies,
poems, poetic forms, poems read by the
authors & more from this esteemed organization. |
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The
Drunken Boat |
An online journal of
international poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. Its
name is from the Rimbaud poem. |
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Modern
American Poetry |
A
scholarly forum concentrating on essays addressing the works
of over 160 poets.
Includes syllabi for teachers. |
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The Page |
Poetry, essays, language and
ideas. |
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The Poetry Archive |
Poets read their own works. Resources for teachers &
students, poetic forms, & theme finder. From
England. |
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The
Poetry Archives |
A
large collection of "classical" poetry. Search by author,
title or first line of poem. |
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Poetry
Daily |
A
new poem daily from the country's best poetry journals and
books. News from the poetry world included. |
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Poetry Magazine |
America’s premier poetry
journal, publishing the country’s top poet’s since 1912.
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Poetry
180 |
From the Library of
Congress, a poem a day for American high schools by some of
America’s top
poets. |
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Poetry
Society of America |
Since its founding in 1910
America's top poets have belonged to the PSA. Open to all. |
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also our other
links:
Literature,
Literary Criticism, and
Shakespeare,
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