Poetry
Resources
Full Text Poems through E-Resource List
African American Poetry, 1760-1900
Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18th
and 19th centuries.
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African American Poetry, Twentieth Century
Searchable collection of poems and individual volumes from all of the major movements and schools of Twentieth Century African American poetry from 1902 to the present day.
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American Poetry Database, 1600-1900
Contains the works of over 200 American poets from 1600 to 1900,
with an emphasis on the actual text of the poems and the poet's
own notes. E-Resource List Click to Connect
American Poetry Database, Twentieth Century
Contains searchable texts of the works of many prominent writers from the early days of the century through the 1990s.
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Canadian Poetry
Includes the texts of more than 12,000 poems by some 142 English-language
authors from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry
This full-text database of modern and contemporary African American
poetry includes collected poems and individual volumes from all
the major movements and schools of twentieth century African
American poetry from 1902 to the present day. E-Resource List Click to Connect
Early
American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) consists of digitized facsimiles
of publications produced in the American colonies and the early
United States. Derived from entries listed in Charles Evans's
American Bibliography, and supplemented from other sources, it
includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides on many topics, and
is a fundamental Resource for early American history, literature,
philosophy, and religion. E-Resource List Click to Connect
Early American Imprints Text Creation Partnership
A selection of digitized and encoded texts selected from the titles
in the Evans Early American Imprints collection. Includes materials
printed in the American colonies and United States before 1820. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online contains over 125,000 titles listed
in Pollard's and Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640),
Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason
Tracts (1640-1661). Coverage includes the first book printed
in English by William Caxton and features works by Malory, Bacon,
More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. Novels, prayer books,
pamphlets, almanacs, calendars, and many other types of primary
sources are included. The works are presented as images that
can be viewed online or downloaded in PDF format for viewing
off-line.
SEARCH TIP: Subject Keyword Poetry E-Resource List Click to Connect
Early English books online - text creation partnership
A selection of digitized and encoded texts chosen from images in
the Early English Books Online Project (works printed in the
British Isles or in English from 1473 to 1700). Works chosen
must be associated with an author whose name appears in the New
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, or be named by
title in the Bibliography. E-Resource List Click to Connect
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Contains the following: eleven major editions from the first folio
of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1853-6 - twenty-eight separate
contemporary printings of individual plays and poems - selected
apocrypha and related works. - more than one hundred adaptations,
sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's acting edition
of Shakespeare's plays (1774). E-Resource List Click to Connect
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Full texts and images of nearly 150,000 titles and editions printed
in the British Isles and the Americas between 1701 and 1800,
including materials in foreign languages as well as in English.
SEARCH TIP: Select Subject Area: Literature and Language, Keyword:
poetry E-Resource List Click to Connect
English Poetry, Second Edition
Provides complete texts of the works of over 2,700 poets from the
8th to early 20th century--in all, more than 183,000 poems. Based
on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, but
also includes English language poets from Ireland, Australia,
and New Zealand. Generally includes original texts published
during the authors' lifetimes. E-Resource List Click to Connect
English Poetry, Twentieth Century
Full texts of the works of over 285 poets from Kipling and Yeats to the present day. Incorporates works from the Faber Poetry Library,
including the works of Americans such as Eliot and Plath. E-Resource List Click to Connect
Twentieth Century African American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
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Twentieth Century American Poetry
Contains searchable texts of the works of many prominent writers
from the early days of the century through the 1990s. E-Resource
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Twentieth Century English Poetry
Full texts of the works of over 285 poets from Kipling and Yeats
to the present day. Incorporates works from the Faber Poetry
Library, including the works of Americans such as Eliot and Plath E-Resource
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W.B. Yeats Collection
Full texts of the Irish author's poetry, plays, and prose, taken
from the standard Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the
Works of W. B. Yeats and from other sources. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Full Text Poems Available on Open Web
The Academy of American Poets (poets.org)
The Academy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
Click on Poets and Poetry for full text poems.
http://www.poets.org/
The American Verse Project
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the
University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic
archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full
text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital
form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML)
using the TEI Guidelines, with various forms of access provided
through the WWW.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
British
Women Romantic Poets, 1789 – 1832
The British Women Romantic Poets Project is a digital initiative
of the UC Davis General Library.
http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/
Internet Poetry Archive
The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of
Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive.
The archive will make available over a worldwide computer network
selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal
of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences
(at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry
new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
Modern English Collection
This heterogeneous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from
1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name
or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in either SGML
or XML and includes a bibliographic header with details about
the creation of the electronic text and its print source. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
Poetry Daily
Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books,
magazines and journals currently in print. Poems are chosen from the work of a wide variety
of poets published in the English language. Our most eminent poets are represented in the
selections, but also poets who are less well known.
http://www.poems.com/
Poetry International Web
Poetry International Web is a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet! PIW will bring you news,
reviews, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by
acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation.
http://www.poetryinternational.org/
Renascence
Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in
English Between the Years 1477 and 1799
Renascence Editions is an effort to make available online works
printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing)
and 1799. These texts have been produced with care and attention,
but are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions
in the peer-reviewed sense. They are made available to the public
for nonprofit purposes only
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
Representative Poetry On-Line
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English
poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to
the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative
Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University
College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books
published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the
English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
TEAMS Middle English Texts
The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available
to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place
in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily
available in student editions. SEARCH TIP: Find on page: poem
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm
Verse Daily
Verse Daily is an independently owned daily publication of quality poetry on the worldwide web.
By republishing from fine literary magazines and books of poetry one new poem each day, Verse Daily is working
hard to promote poets and their publishers while providing a wealth of excellent poetry to the public free of
charge.
http://www.versedaily.org/
Victorian Women Writers Project
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly
accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of
the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the
Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets,
religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and
verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy
and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical
descriptions of them.
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/vwwp-about.html
Women Writers Online
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research
project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic
text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women
writers (pre 1830 in England) out of the archive and make them
accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars,
and the general reader. We support research on women's writing,
text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and
scholarship.
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html
Renaissance Women Online
The RWO site builds on the existing work of the Women Writers Project,
using the same encoding and editorial methods and expanding the
project's coverage of the Renaissance considerably. The RWO collection,
when complete, will include 100 texts: about 60 encoded specially
for this project, and about 40 from the WWP textbase.
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/rwoentry.html
Print Reference Works in the Vairo Library
Afro-American poets since 1955. REF PS221.D5 v.41 1985b
American poetry since 1945 : a critical survey [1st ed.]. REF
PS324.S68 1965
British poetry since 1970 : a critical survey. REF PR611.S32 1980
The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected
works. REF PN1022.C63 1996
The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. 9th.ed.-10th.ed. REF PN1021.G701
Contemporary poets 5th ed., 4th ed., 3th ed., 2th ed. REF PR603.C6
Contemporary poets 3d ed. REF PR603.C6 1980 1980
Contemporary women poets. REF PS151.C67 1997
Critical survey of poetry. REF PN1021.C7 2003 v.1 2003
Critical survey of poetry. Supplement. REF PN1111.C7 1987 suppl.
Critical survey of poetry : English language series. REF PN1111.C7
v.5 1982
Encyclopedia of American poetry. The nineteenth century. REF PS316.E63
1998
Encyclopedia of American poetry. The twentieth century. REF PS323.5.E53
2001
Encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. REF PN1021.E5 1965
Guide to American poetry explication. Z1231.P7G85 1989 v.1 (Colonial
and nineteenth century)
Granger's index to poetry. REF PN1021.G7 1953-1978, 1986
Index to Black poetry. Ref PS153.N5C45 1974
An index to criticisms of British and American poetry. Ref PR89.C5
1973
The modern American muse : a complete bibliography of American
verse, 1900-1925. REF Z1231.P7I7 1950
Modern and contemporary. REF PS221.L46 1989
The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. REF PN1021.N39
1993
Poetry in our time : a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking
world, 1900 to 1960 2d ed., rev. and enl. REF PR601.D43 1963 1963
Poetry handbook : a dictionary of terms REF PN44.5.D4 1962
Databases of Critical and Secondary Works through E-Resource
List
American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
Contains full-text of American magazines and journals that originated
between 1741 and 1900. APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals
spanning nearly 200 years. Digitized page images reproduce the
publications as they appeared when originally published (includes
literary journals). E-Resource List Click to Connect
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Coverage of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions
of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral
dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Includes links to the full text of 120 journals. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Arts & Humanities
Citation Index
This is an index covering arts and humanities journals. It also
provides users with the ability to track known citations in the
literature.
Coverage: 1986 - present E-Resource List Click to Connect
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
This is a selective collection of full-text literary criticism
of contemporary authors. Although not every entry includes full-text,
this source does act as an index for the entire paper collection.
The full-text entry is generally a reprinting of a critical essay
from a recognized journal or essay collection. The database can
be searched by author name and profile, titles, subject/themes,
critics, and critical responses. (Includes: Contemporary Authors,
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography). E-Resource
List Click to Connect
International Medieval Bibliography
The International Medieval Bibliography indexes articles in journals,
conference proceedings, and essay collections published worldwide.
Publications dealing with the period 400-1500 and published since
1967 are covered. Subject areas include: Classics, Language and
Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy,
Arabic and Islamic Studies, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance
Arts. E-Resource List Click to Connect
ITER Gateway
to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
ITER is an interdisciplinary database for finding information on topics pertaining
to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700AD). The database includes citations
for books, articles, and selected reviews. Iter Italicum, contains descriptions
of Reniassance manuscripts in libraries and archives worldwide. The final components
are directories of people and institutions working in the field. E-Resource
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Johns Hopkins
Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The Guide consists of 226 alphabetically arranged entries on
individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical
schools and movements,
and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries
and historical periods. E-Resource List Click to Connect
JSTOR (full text journal articles)
Electronic Journals available through the WWW to Penn State scholars
in many areas, including Language and Literature. E-Resource
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Literary Theory
Literary Theory traces the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato
to the present. It contains over 800 works by more than 350 writers. Among
the works included are: formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos,
literary prefaces, theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major
examples of contemporary theory. E-Resource List Click to Connect
Literature
Online
Gateway to primary texts, secondary sources, and biographical
information in English and American literature. Includes full
texts of over
330,000 literary works, of key literary reference works, and
of several dozen journals, and indexing for the Annual Bibliography
of English Language and Literature from 1920 to the present. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
MLA International Bibliography
A worldwide index of references to journal articles, dissertations,
books, and parts of books pertaining to modern literatures, folklore,
film, drama, languages, and linguistics. It excludes book, drama,
and film reviews. Includes indexing from 1963 to the present,
and incorporates the MLA Directory of Periodicals. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
MUSE (full text journal articles)
Electronic full-text, full-image Journals available through the
WWW to Penn State scholars in these disciplines: the humanities,
social sciences, and mathematics.
Coverage: Current issues and volumes back to 1995 are included.
(Includes literary journals) E-Resource List Click to Connect
Proquest Direct (newspapers, magazines, business)
ProQuest Direct indexes 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers.
It contains Full text (word file with no photos or tables) or
images (looks like real paper publication) to over 2,000 journals,
and Full text to 150+ newspapers. (Includes literary journals) E-Resource
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World Shakespeare Bibliography
An index to recent literature on all aspects of public administration.
A database of scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare
and published or produced between 1972 and the present. Includes
books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions,
reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media. E-Resource
List Click to Connect
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