Poetry Project

Poetry Project – Research, Oral Presentation and Photo Essay

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• • Masterplots II: Poetry Series, Revised Edition (REF 809.1 MAS) 

    • The eight volumes contain 1,386 essays on important poems by both classic writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Frost to contemporary poets such as Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, and N. Scott Momaday.

  • Notable Poets (REF 809.1 NOT) 

    • Notable Poets is a three-volume set that comprises biographical sketches and critical studies of 110 of the world's best-known poets from antiquity to the late 20th century. This set surveys the essential poets whose works comprise the core curriculum of high school and undergraduate poetry studies.

  • The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer through Robert Frost (821.008 BES)

  • The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry (821.008 HAR)

  • The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry (821.008 OXF)

  • Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (809 PAG)

  • Use the Oakridge Catalogue to find a poet or browse the lower 800s.

Databases

• • Literary Reference Center  - TVDSB EBSCO Database 

    • Provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.

    • Includes: Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.

  • Literature Resource Center - TVDSB Gale Database 

    • Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Web Resources

• • Poetry Foundation 

    • The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. 

  • poets.org 

    • The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. The organization connects people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month; Poets.org, one of the leading poetry sites online; American Poets, a biannual magazine; an annual series of poetry readings and special events; and its education programs. 

  • Project Gutenberg 

    • The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple:

    • To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. 

    • This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away.

      • Poetry (Bookshelf)

  • A Time-line of English Poetry  

    • Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present

    • [by Poet | by Title | by First Line | by Days of the Year | by Keyword]

More Poetry Links

• • Canadian Poetry Online from the University of Toronto 

    • Canadian Poetry is a collection of poetry from published contemporary and 19th century Canadian poets. Contemporary poets have selected their poetry and provided biographies.

  • Scansion 101 by Shmoop - YouTube Video 

    • Warning: in this video you will be introduced to words like anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, and pyrrhic. It is going to sound like a whole new language, and it basically is. Poetry lives its own separate, flowery world. Come on in!

  • For Better for Verse  

    • An interactive learning tool that can help you understand what makes metered poetry in English tick.

  • Interactive Quiz on Meter - Western Michigan University