Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Top 10 Library Poetry Resources, Pt. 1

Yesterday was World Poetry Day, and April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate by digging into our poetry resources.

10. LITERARY CRITICISM: BOOKS TO CHECK OUT

Go to www.tarleton.edu/library. Under Library Catalog, click "Books, Periodicals,...etc." For a particular poet, type in the poet's name + criticism.
Example: Robert Frost criticism



9. BIOGRAPHY: BOOKS TO CHECK OUT, ONLINE BOOKS, REFERENCE BOOKS

Go to the catalog. Type in the poet's name and biography
Example: Robert Frost biography

8. LITERARY CRITICISM: REFERENCE BOOKS

Go to the catalog. Click Advanced Search Options. Type in the words poetry criticism and change the location to Reference.




Possible resources:
Poetry Criticism PN1010.P499 (71 volumes)

7. LITERARY CRITICISM ONLINE

The Poetry Criticism series is also available online. You can search it by going to our Literature Criticism Online database, clicking on Advanced Search and limiting your results by series. For a specific author, type in the name and select Named Author.


6. MORE DATABASES


JSTOR, Project Muse, and MLA are all good databases for articles about literature. For a full list of literature-related databases, consult our Subject research guide page for English, Literature, and Languages.


And, don't forget to check out our other five resources.

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