Books: Look in the stacks for call numbers beginning with:
Reference Books:
Subscription Databases:
LitFinder from Gale Group. Includes over 125,000 full-text poems. Use the Advanced Search option to search by nationality and subject.
Internet Resources:
Poets.org . American Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org. Search by poet and find a biography and links to full-text of selected poems. Also has links to related poets and external links.
Representative Poetry Online. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/. Includes over 3,000 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. Can search chronologically, by poet’s last name, or by first or last line.
Modern British Poetry: Louis Untermeyer. http://www.bartleby.com/103/. Full-text Digital version of anthology first published in 1920. Can search by a chronological list of poets, alphabetically by poet, by title, or by first line.
Poetry Foundation. http://poetryfoundation.org. From the publishers of Poetry magazine. The poetry tool (found under the archive tab http://poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poem.occ.html) allows you to search for poems by category (theme), poet, title, or first line.
Thomson/Gale Poets Corner. http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets. Biographies of two dozen major poets, and the full-text of one of their poems.
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