Evans Library: ENG104-Hymowech: Poetry Research

Poetry Project Sources

The three links below are great places to start exploring and discovering the world of poetry. Found a poet you like? Get the full story - see if the Evans Library has poetry books written by your poet.

Academy of American Poets "What is the Academy of American Poets? 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. Poets.org is one of several programs presented by the Academy of American Poets."
Poetry Foundation "The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience."
Poetry Archive "The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Sir Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded."

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
One of our general databases. It is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Designed to meet the needs of students, researchers & educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews.

Primo
Primo allows you to search all library research at once. Use it if the links above are not helping you find information you can use.

Poets.org - Schools and Movements
Use the search box & entry the school or movement that you are interested in (i.e. Modernism). If available for the school/movement, you will see a "A Brief Guide to..." in the result list.
Poetry Foundation - Schools & Periods From the Poetry Foundation
Schmoop - Literary Movements
Popular site that explains literary movements in easier to understand language than some of the other sites.
Representative Poetry Online
Representative Poetry Online, edition 6.0, is a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years. It is a good site for connecting poets to literary movements.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Call Number: eBook, click to access
ISBN: 9781400841424
Publication Date: 2012-08-26
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive and authoritative reference on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Use the "search within book" option on the left to navigate to your school or movement. You can also use "Entries A-Z" to get to your term/topic.

The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings. The second edition - fully revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English. -;The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings. Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a. complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading. The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available. This second edition -- revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English. -;Lennard succeeds in being as exhaustive as he can possibly be... - Caroline Bertoneche, Universite de Provence;Very readable... gives and excellent overview of poetry in English and will explain rhythm, metre and style. - The Observer, February 2006;TEXTBOOK - The Observer, February 2006
Call Number: eBook, click to access
ISBN: 9780191532733
Publication Date: 2006-01-01

Reading Poems - Closely
From Purdue's online writing lab (OWL), " By learning how to close read a poem you can significantly increase both your understanding and enjoyment of the poem. You may also increase your ability to write convincingly about the poem."
Reading Poems - More Closely
A PowerPoint tutorial from Purdue's online writing lab (OWL) that encapsulates the basic elements of closely reading poems.

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
Put together by Dr. Kristi Siegel, Associate Professor, English Dept.; Director, English Graduate Program Chair - Languages, Literature, and Communication Division at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI this site explores several literary theories.
Schmoop - Literary Theory, Movements & Critics
Popular site that explains these ideas in easier to understand language than some of the other sites.

Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (Purdue OWL)
A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these ideas act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture.

Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism - Writing Commons
Literary Criticism refers to critical methods for interpreting texts and developing and substantiating arguments.
Glossary of Poetic Terms (Theory & Criticism)
From Poetry Foundation
Literary Theory - Goodwin University
GU's guide that covers several different critical approaches to literature.
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory - Purdue University
Like GU's guide, this site covers a few critical approaches to literature well.

Writing (or Presenting) About Poetry
This section, from Purdue's online writing lab (OWL), offers answers to some common questions about writing [or presenting] about poetry.
Image in Poetry
Why does a poem look like that? How does the look of a poem impact an understanding of the poem?
Images and Their Use
What does a poem sound like? Why does a poem sound like that? Why is sound important in poetry?