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Poetry Explication

Databases for Finding Articles
Literature Database
Catalog for Finding Books
Links to Selected Websites

Critical Analysis of Poetry  http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html#poetry
Step by step instrustion on how to analyse poetry.

Poetry Explications
Reviews some of the important techniques of approaching and writing a poetry explication, and includes parts of two sample explications.


Databases for Newspaper, Magazine, Journal & Reference Articles:

Gale Student Resource Center on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles on biography, geography, culture, history, literature, science, etc.  Click on literature button (below Basic Search area)

Literature Resource Center
This aggregate database combines the following Gale databases: Contemporary Authors , Dictionary of Literary Biography , Contemporary Literary Criticism , Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism , Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism , Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism , Shakespeare Criticism , Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism , Short Story Criticism , and Literature Criticism 1400-1800 , It is augmented with full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material, work overviews, links to author-related internet sites, scholarly journal articles and interviews. Additionally, the Gale Literature Resource Center includes Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Literature , the Scribner's Writers series, the Twayne Authors series, and Chadwyck-Healy's Literature On-Line ( LION ) database.

Other Literature database
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LitFinder
poems, stories, essays & more.

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.

After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:

  • Type search words (title, author and/or subject) in the first search box & click Submit.
  • The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
  • To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to “Limit to:  Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.


Selected Books in Skyline College Library:

The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works / edited by Nicholas Frankovich.
Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1022.C63 1996 

The Columbia Granger's guide to poetry anthologies / William Katz, Linda Sternberg Katz.
Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1111.K38 1991

Critical survey of poetry : English language series / edited by Frank N. Magill ; academic director, Walton Beacham.
Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1111.C7  

The poetry dictionary / John Drury ; foreword by Dana Gioia.
Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1021.D78 1995

Poetry explication; a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present by Joseph M. Kuntz
Available in Library Reference: REF/PR502.K868 1962

Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger, editor ; Frank J. Warnke and O.B. Hardison, Jr., associate editors.
Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1021.P7 1974


Links to Recommended Websites:

Modern American
An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson. A comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry.

Representative Poetry Online (RPO)
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

Poetry Archives
Provides a simple interface into a dynamicially generated, database driven website archiving thousands of copyright free poems.

Poets.org
From The Academy of American Poets.

Bartleby.com
Poetry antologies and thousands of poems.

Emily Dickinson
Online resources on Dickinson.

Litweb
Ninth Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature .

 

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last revised: 4-24-08
Created by Kim Lim 4-16-08, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA