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Poetry Resources
We have a variety of databases that allow you to search for journal articles across many scholarly publications at once.
- Arts and Humanities Through the ErasA comprehensive source that profiles movements and milestones in literature, music, religion and the arts from specific time periods.
- Bloom's Literary Reference Online This link opens in a new window
A resource for the study of literature. Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom. Includes thousands of critical essays and discussion questions, author biographies, character analyses, full-length poems, and the full text of hundreds of reference books. Also contains full-length videos of classic plays and films, and more.
- Full text Poems from Bloom's LiteratureTexts of thousands of poems by hundreds of important poets.
- Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American LiteratureComprehensive new set that places American authors and their principal works in historical and cultural context.
- Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World LiteratureComprehensive new set that places Non-American authors and their principal works in historical and cultural context.
- Literature: Gale This link opens in a new window
Offers broad and representative range of authors and their works, including full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
- Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides scholarly articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and reviews of books, ballets, dance, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
- Introduction to Literary Context: World LiteratureDesigned to introduce great works of literature placing them in historical, societal, scientific and religious contexts.
- Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text literary database covering all genres and time-frames. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems. Also includes the Masterplots series and "Critical Insights" volumes.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of American LiteratureExcellent coverage of authors, literary works, topics, and themes.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's LiteratureThe standard reference work for all aspects of children's literature from around the world.
- The Academy of American PoetsSponsored by the Academy of American Poets, a non-profit organization, this site maintains one of the liveliest and most comprehensive poetry sites to foster the appreciation of contemporary American poetry.
- Poetry for StudentsFeatures discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
- Writers' Biography in ContextSelect "Writers" from the topics drop down. Biographical entries for a wide variety of authors.