Research Guides: Literary Genres: Form: Poetry

Background & Reference Information

Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the Cambridge Companions to: Postcolonial Poetry, Victorian Women's Poetry, Latin American Poetry, Poetry of the First World War, Elizabeth Bishop, and more.

Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Authoritative reference on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more.
Rhyme's Reason: a guide to English
A playful, yet scholarly, guide to reading poetry and understanding the structures of verse.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals include: Alif: the Journal of Comparative Poetics, KulturPoetik, American Poetry Review.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Citations from journals such as: Poets for the Millennium, Calíope, Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals include: Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism, Poetics Today, William Carlos Williams Review
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Citations from journals such as: American Poetry Review, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and Victorian Poetry.

Best American Poetry Series Archive
Fondren Library PS 584 .B47
We have most of these volumes available in Fondren Library. Use the online archive to browse the contents of each edition of this annual publication.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Poetry from 1900-
Twentieth-Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window
American poetry from hundreds of poets

Shows all the records in the library catalog with this subject heading.

Poetry Foundation
Independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
Poets.org
From the Academy of American Poets, information about poets and poetry.