Schauffler Library: Poetry: Criticism

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Academic OneFile
Access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
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Academic Search Ultimate
A good place to find scholarly articles for a variety of disciplines.
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Bloom's Literature
Bloom’s Literature is rich with relevant content on core authors and works, multicultural classics, contemporary literature, and more. Students will find exactly what they need for research and deeper learning without having to wade through an uncurated search. Professors will appreciate the thoughtful organization and important assets—including videos, proprietary essay topics and discussion questions, and valuable writing guidance—that can be used in lectures or for independent study.

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JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to the highest-quality academic scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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Literature Resource Center
Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes information from the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.
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Poets.org
Head to the "browse poems & poets" tab to find thousands of each.
Poetry Foundation
The "Poems & Poets" tag is a great way to find poems by topic or occasion and poets by time period, region, and more. Lots and lots of poems! If you find a poet that you like, also check the library catalog to see if we have any books of that person's poetry.
Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for American High Schools
Former poet laureate Billy Collins and the Library of Congress team up on this initiative to bring a poem a day to high school students in the U.S. Includes the full text of all 180 poems.
Modern American Poetry Site
This site is devoted to the scholarly study of modern and contemporary American poetry. Explore to find poems, poet's biographical information, and criticism. There is a particularly helpful feature that allows you to explore poets by their schools.
Poetry International
Explore poetry from nations around the globe! While this organization was founded in the Netherlands, the site features poems from dozens of countries in multiple languages. For foreign language poems, you can choose to have them translated or read them as written. Just select the "Poets & Poems" tab to start exploring.

Literary Criticism and Theory in the Library

Looking for books of literary criticism in the library?

Head downstairs to the Silent Room and look for the 800s, on the right side of the room when you enter. Works of literary criticism and theory will be filed under 801 and then the author's last name!

Anthologies, books with multiple authors, are filed under 801 and the first word in the title.

Already know what you want?
You can search the library catalog to see if we have it!