Poetry Booklet
Online Resources
- The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
After logging in with your school password and username start by selecting the Advanced Search option. You can select the Form of the poem and narrow your search quickly. If you want the full text poem database you need to select this option. - Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. - LitFinder Online
The publisher describes the database to be ” The ultimate poetry reference. 125,000 full-text poems including more than 25,000 copyrighted poems, 800,000 poem citations.” This database is not as user friendly as the Columbia resource but it may be useful to you. - Gale Virtual Reference Library
This database provides you with a wide range of sources to support your research. - To search the World Wide Web, use the search tools available at the Ainlay Library web page. Select keywords which will narrow your search to provide accurate relevant results.
Print Resources
- Poetry Books 808.81
- Poetry Collections 821.008
Web Resources
Ballads
Cinquain
- John Hewitt’s Introduction to the Cinquain with Examples
- Samples of Contemporary Cinquains
- Cinquain.org: A Scholarly exploration of the American cinquain as popularized by Adelaide Crapsey.
Concrete Poetry
- Index to Concrete Visual Poetry
- The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry
- A Concrete Visual Poetry Exhibit
Haiku
Limerick
Similes
Sonnets
