“Poetry Pathfinder”

“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the ---not always greatly hopeful –belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.”
Paul Celan How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch p.3

ONLINE CATALOG
(also available from home)

1. Do a subject search of your chosen poet. Subject = Dickinson, Emily
2. Do an expanded search using the keywords Poetry and Criticism.

RESERVE CART

The following books have been placed on reserve for this unit. You may photocopy selected pages at your convenience.
808.1 How to Read a Poem and Fall In Love with Poetry
H669
R808.1 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
N532
R808.1 The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Terms
T253
Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
En19p
How to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle
P358
R821 Contemporary Poets
M957

LITERARY CRITICISM SERIES (Reference Room)

  1. Click on the NCS Internet Database. In the keyword search box, type in Gale Literary Criticism .
  2. Search by poet or title of major work.
  3. Note appropriate volumes of NCLC, CLC or TCLC

NCS Library has the following Gale series.

R 809 CLC (Contemporary Literary Criticism) Look up poet in last set C767 volume.
R809.034 NCLC(Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism) Look up poet Nin in last set volume.
R809.04 TCLC (Twentieth Century Literary Criticism) Look up poet in TWE last set volume

VIDEOTAPE SERIES

VC 811.09 This series contains individual videotapes that discuss the life and work of13 of America 's most memorable poets. They include: Elizabeth Bishop,Hart Crane, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes,Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, WaltWhitman, and William Carlos Williams.

NCS ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Search the following databases for either biographical or critical information about the selected poet and his/her work.

Ebsco Host -- Large periodical database with many full-text articles
Contemporary Literary Criticism -- Contains biographical and critical information about poets now living or who died after DEC. 31, 1959 .
Wilson Biographies Plus – Contains biographical information and in some cases full-text criticism about a poet's work at the end of a biographical sketch.

NCS INTERNET DATABASE

Select the following sites for information about the selected poet.

Academy of American Poets –Excellent site containing biographical information, poems, and literary links.
Glossary of Poetic Terms – Comprehensive definitions of poetic terminology plus a ton of poetic questions.
American Verse Project – Furnishes an electronic archive of American poetry and criticism prior to 1920. Contains a searchable A-Z index.
Poets' Corner – Click on Poets' and Poetry Links for connections to all types of poetry.
Poet's Corner Full-Text Online Searchable Database – Provides an easy-to-use author, title and subject index of 655 poets. Be sure to search this site.

Prepared by K. Craver 4/2001

 

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