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Article
Databases
Catalog
for Finding Books
Recommended
Web Sites
Selected Poetry
Reference Books in Skyline College Library
Article Databases:
Literature Resource Center on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
START HERE for high quality full-text literary
criticism articles & biographical information on authors. info
- For more precise searches, click
on the Advanced Search button on
the blue task bar
- In the Advanced Search mode, “Keyword”
searches are usually most effective
- When results for a search are first displayed, only "Literature
Criticism" articles are listed. Click on the “Biographies", "Topic
& Work Overviews", “Reviews
& News” or “Primary
Sources” tabs for additional articles.
Student
Resource Center: Literature on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Magazine,
journal, newspaper and reference articles on literary works, literary topics,
genres & movements and authors. info
Gale LitFinder on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Nearly 150,000 full-text
poems and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches, and plays,
plus biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. info
Oxford English Dictionary on-campus or off-campus w/ library
card
Definitions for
most words in the English language, plus information on word origins
Books:
PLS Online Catalog
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 in the
first search box
- To Limit your results to
books at Skyline College Library:
- scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes,
- on the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College
&
- then click the Submit
button.
Recommended
Web Sites:
Literary Criticism Resources (IPL) : Links to other literary criticism
sites.
Online Books Page: Links to over
15,000 on-line books and shorter texts by author and title.
Bartleby.com: Database of thousands of full-text
poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain plus
encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & close to 100,000 quotations.
Poetry:
Poets' Corner: Over 7300 poems by about 800
poets, including a subject index.
American Verse Project: More than 150 volumes of
American poetry prior to 1920.
Modern American Poetry: 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: Archives of thousands of copyright
free poems.
Poets.org:
From The Academy of American Poets.
Bartleby.com: Poetry anthologies and thousands
of poems.
Litweb: Ninth Edition of The Norton
Introduction to Literature .
Poetry Explication:
Critical
Analysis of Poetry: Step-by-step
instruction on how to analyze poetry.
Poetry
Explications: Reviews some of the important techniques of
approaching and writing a poetry explication, and includes parts of two
sample explications.
Selected Poetry Reference 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
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