Poetry

You will find below three kinds of sources for your research.

Web Sites
Books in the DHS library on your topic.
Databases with information on your topic.

WEB SITES

Web sites of greatest interest are listed first; the last three sites offer links to many more sites.

Poets.org

http://www.poets.org/

From the Academy of American Poets.

A great site for poets and their poetry with many poems and information about poets and their craft.

Find poems arranged by theme in Poems for Every Occasion .

There is a “ Listening Booth ” with audio versions of about 150 poems.

Other features include explanations of poetic forms and techniques and a glossary of poetic terms .

The “On Writing” section of the site includes FAQs about writing poetry and getting published.

Includes excellent links to further Online Poetry Resources .

Poetry Foundation

http://poetryfoundation.org/index.html

Search the archive for poems by author or title, and many other ways including category, occasion and type of poem (ballad, sonnet, elegy, pastoral, and many other forms).

There are podcasts of some of the poems at the site.

Includes access to a few poems in the current issue of Poetry, the most famous poetry magazine in America.

There is an extensive set of links to other sites at Archive: Around the Web .

Poetry Archive

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

An online collection of poets reading their works. RealPlayer is required to listen.

Browse poets by name or poems by title.

Includes a detailed Browse by Theme feature to find poems on more than 100 different subjects.

Includes a Browse by Form feature to find examples of sonnets, elegies, and other types of poems.

With a glossary of poetic terms and links to further resources.

Sonnet Central

http://www.sonnets.org/

“An archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work.” Includes sonnets sent in by online contributors.

Poet's Corner

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/

From publisher Gale. Biographies of over 30 major poets, along with a poem and explication.

For portraits of many poets, see Faces of the Poets .

Website companion to Oxford University 's Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Content varies by poet, but includes online poetry for many poets, with explication of some poems and links for further research.

The DHS Library does not own this anthology, as of March 2008.

Literary Criticism & Book Reviews

Recommended Internet sites for literature and criticism.

Twentieth-century poetry in English

http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm

Links to over 100 poets, from Professor Eiichi Hishikawa of Kobe University , Japan . 11 poet pages

Librarians' Internet Index> Search: "poetry OR poets"

http://www.lii.org >search "poetry OR poets" OR search "poet's name"

Visit http://lii.org and type "poetry OR poets" in the search box.

Looking for a web site devoted to a specific author? Type the name in the search box.

Books

For a browsable list of "Poetry--New and High Interest" see the Categories Tab at the top of the Dedham High School Library catalog. This is a browsable and sortable list of poetry acquisitions during school years 2004-2008, with selected older titles added.It will be updated automatically on the Library catalog under the categories tab “Poetry—New and High Interest.”

To find more poetry titles,search our catalog at http://library.dedham.k12.ma.us by author (ex. Frost, Robert) or by keywords (ex. “poetry war,” “sonnets,” “love poetry,” “humorous poetry,” etc.)

Browse our collection at 811 (the Dewey number for American Poetry, alphabetically arranged by individual poet) or 821 (the Dewey number for British Poetry, alphabetically arranged by individual poet) or 808.81 or 811.008 or 821.008 (for collections by more than one author).

For a list of titles, visit the DHS library catalog >Choose Categories in the left column of the page> Select "Categories--Poetry, American, 19th Century." Further material can be found by doing an author, subject, or keyword search of the catalog. You will find poetry by these authors, as well as biographical and critical material.

These are some of the reference titles in our library with information on poets and poetry::

REF 810.9 GRE Great American Writers: Twentieth Century , 2002.

REF 810.9 MAG Magill's Survey of American Literature, 2007.

REF 810.3 OXF Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, 2004.

REF 811 HAR Encyclopedia of American Poetry: Nineteenth Century, 1998.

REF 811 HAR Encyclopedia of American Poetry: Twentieth Century, 2001.

REF 820 KAS Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature , 2006.

REF 821.009 CRI Critical Survey of Poetry, 1992.

REF 809.1 POE Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism.... , 1991.

Databases

Literary Reference Center at school.

Use the "Browse by Author" feature to access your author; scroll down the page to access the "Related Information" box for links to biographies, literary criticism, poetry by the author, reference material, pictures and more.

If you need critical information about a specific work use the "Browse by Title" feature.

To retrieve information from this database from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click here for HOME ACCESS. You will need to select Literary Reference Center from the databases list, once you are logged in.

Biography Resource Center

To search for a biography of a specific poet, bullet "Start of Last Name." Type last name FIRST in the search box. Click tabs to move from reference book material to magazines or web sites. Click over citations retrieved to open to full-text.

Use the TABS to move between result types: the "Biographies" tab contains full-text excerpts from reference sources; there are often web site suggestions and periodical articles under the "Websites" and ""Magazine Articles" tabs.

An Infotrac database. To access from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click HERE FOR OUT OF SCHOOL ACCESS .

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Provides critical essays on contemporary authors and their works. "Contemporary" sometimes includes authors who are no longer alive, such as Truman Capote, who died in the 1980s.

In this database, the last result is usually best! Look for the subtitle: "A brief review of the author's life, works, and critical reception."

Search for an author in "first name last name" order or "last name" only.

An Infotrac database. To access from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click HERE FOR OUT OF SCHOOL ACCESS .

Contemporary Poets

Biographical and critical information on contempory poets.

An Infotrac database. To access from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click HERE FOR OUT OF SCHOOL ACCESS .

Expanded Academic ASAP

The focus is on scholarly journals, but the database includes general interest titles as well. Once you have search results, you may want to view "Narrow Results" to refine your results by article type or subject. Article types include critical essays, editorials, interviews, and more.

This database is a good place to look for literary criticism: try typing in the title you are studying in quotes; when the results come back, see "Narrow Results" and select "Critical Essay."

An Infotrac database. To access from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click HERE FOR OUT OF SCHOOL ACCESS .

Last Updated 3/24/08/L.Davies