Poetry
Poetry Subject Headings
- Poetry – 811
- English Poetry – 821
- American Poetry – 811
- Poetry Collections – 808.81, 821
Poetry Databases
The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text. The database offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets. Granger’s provides you with the option to seach by subject, includes commentaries on mnay poems, and has an extensive listing of biographies of major poets.
LitFinder for Schools contains a wealth of literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and dramatic works. LitFinder for Schools also includes biographies, work summaries, author images and a full glossary of literary terms.
The Literary Reference Centre contains more than 69,000 classic and contemporary poems.
Literature Resource Center is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.
ProQuest Learning: Literature delivers more than 180,000 searchable works of literature from medieval times to the present. Students can find author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources organized into more than 3,000 Author Pages.
Poetry on the Free Web
- The Canadian Poetry Archive
The Canadian Poetry Archive features selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets. Digitized from public domain anthologies found in the National Library of Canada’s rich literature collection, the poems represent some of Canada’s most notable poetry from the 19th and early 20th centuries. - Canadian Poetry
Poetry links from the University of Toronto English Library. - The League of Canadian Poets – Young Poets
Young Poets is a project of The League of Canadian Poets, Canada’s professional poetry organization. This is a non-profit organization working to promote poetry in this country and to promote Canadian poetry around the world. - The Lines of the Poet
The book, “The Lines of the Poet”, is a unique celebration of Canadian poetry. The book is the result of dedicated work between artists, writers, editors, and craftsmen. The complete works includes signed poetry and drawn portraits of thirteen most distinguished poets over the past sixty years. The editor, Doug Jones, is the fourteenth portrait. Each portrait has been signed and numbered by the Montreal artist, Rosengarten, and each poem signed by its author. Only one hundred and thirty copies were made. “Follett Webpath Express, 2010″ - Representative Poetry Online
This database includes about 2,900 English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. Search poets alphabetically or chronologically, their poems by title, or their poems by first line or last line.
Poetry Reference
Elements of Poetry
An examination of the patterns created by the formal elements of literature—alliteration, image, tone, and metaphor, for example—to help you understand more deeply a text’s meaning and the nuances that enrich that meaning.