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ENGL 131: Intro to Poetry Writing : Books and Articles
Finding Books
Start with a keyword search in the catalog. Once you have located a relevant item, you can look at the Subjects in the record and follow those links to find related books.
Some subject headings are very broad. To narrow your results, you can combine subject heading and keyword searching. You can also refine your results by using the facets on the left side of the screen
"Poetry -- Criticism and interpretation"
"Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century"
"Poetics -- History -- 21st century"
"Poetry -- Book reviews -- Periodicals"
Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.
- Author: "Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955"
- Subject: "Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955"
Use the facets on the left side of the catalog to expand your search to Duke, NC State, and NCCU Libraries. To expand your search even further, try searching WorldCat.
Finding Journal Articles / Secondary Analysis
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MLA International BibliographyA major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. Includes articles from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Also searchable under "Criticism" within Literature Online.
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JSTORProvides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
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Project MuseProvides access to important university press and other scholarly publisher e-journals mainly in the humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
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ProQuest One LiteratureIncludes and expands upon resources from ProQuest Literature Online (LION). Includes literary criticism as well as primary texts and reference works. Contains 3 million literature citations from a wide range of sources such as scholarly journals, monographs, and dissertations, along with more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Features notable collections from Chadwyck-Healey, such as African American Poetry, American Drama, and English Poetry. Provides access to the ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) index of bibliographic citations for literary criticism.
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Articles PlusIndex to hundreds of millions electronic resources, including journal and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and media in campus library collections.
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Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Reference
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismThis resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse has been revised extensively to reflect rapidly changing scholarship. The Guide presents a historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements.
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Oxford Bibliographies OnlineProvides sophisticated online recommendations to the core scholarship on a subject as determined by experts in the field. Each module constitutes a convenient and comprehensive introduction to the essential body of literature that has shaped research on a topic. At the click of a mouse, you therefore have 24/7 access to expert recommendations that have been rigorously peer-reviewed and vetted to ensure scholarly accuracy and objectivity.
Each OBO subject database allows you to identify the core authors, works, ideas, and debates that have shaped the scholarly conversation so you can find the key literature. All the bibliographic essays have been peer-reviewed, and the specific entries are linked to full-text content available through the web or the UNC Library. The "My OBO" feature also allows you to create a personalized list of citations.
Online Poetry Collections
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African American Poetry (1750-1900)African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 is an invaluable resource, containing nearly 3,000 poems written by African American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This resource is helpful not only for literary scholars, but for researchers in black studies, linguistics, women's studies, the black literary heritage and comparative studies.
The collection offers unique insights into the creative mind and reflects the conditions of early America and the role of black Americans during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice and slavery. -
American Poetry 1600-1900A text archive of rekeyed texts of about 40,000 English-language poems by American poets from the colonial era to the early twentieth century. The contents of American Poetry Database can also be searched through Literature Online, which also has more recent American poets represented.
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Canadian Poetry"An archive of rekeyed texts of more than 19,000 English-language poems by Canadian writers from the seventeenth century to 1900." (James Harner, Literary Research Guide) Aslo searchable via Literature Online.
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English Poetry, Second Edition"An archive of rekeyed texts of more than 183,000 English-language poems by writers of the British Isles, Commonwealth, and former colonial countries from the Anglo-Saxon era to the early twentieth century." (James Harner, Literary Research Guide) These texts are also searchable from within Literature Online.
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Faber Poetry LibraryA collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets. (Source: vendor website.) This collection is also searchable from within Literature Online.
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Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and FictionIncludes more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays. Nearly all of the content is in copyright, and most of the other items are long out of print or have never before been published. Besides serving as a rich resource for literature scholars, the collection also supports the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.
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Twentieth-Century African American PoetryThe full text of 12,000 poems by more than 100 poets. The Database of Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry documents the unique voices of this century's critically acclaimed African-American poets. The collection opens the door to literary scholarship by providing access to the full text of 12,000 poems by more than 100 poets.
Works by poets like Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes and Rita Dove enrich the collection, as well as emerging poets who will shape a new era of poetry. Biographical profiles accompany each poet's work, and the complete database can be searched by a number of fields, including keyword, first line or title keyword, and poet name. (Source: vendor website.) -
Twentieth-Century American PoetryThis collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 American poets. (Source: vendor website.) This database is also searchable from within Literature Online.
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Twentieth-Century English PoetryA collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.(Source: vendor website.) This database is also searchable within Literature Online.
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Perdita Manuscripts I: Women Writers 1500-1700Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles from 1500-1700. Contents include account books, advice, meditations, receipts, travel writing, and verse. Perdita manuscripts can be searched by name, genre, and first lines of both poetry and prose.
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic PeriodContains over sixty volumes of lyric poetry written by fifty Scottish women between 1789 and 1832. The works are accompanied by biographical sketches about the authors and bibliographies of their primary works, criticism, and reviews.
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W. B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995)The W.B. Yeats Collection contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, collected in 22 volumes. (Source: vendor website.) See About section of the database for fuller description.
Interlibrary Loan
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Subject Specific Databases
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UNC databases for English & Comparative LiteratureA collection of databases that cover ECL
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