Poetry: Matching Themes

Poetry Matching Themes - Gilbert, Killian

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• • 15 Canadian Poets x 3 (819.1 FIF)

  • The Best American Poetry 2014 (811 BES)

  • The Best Canadian Poetry of 2013 (819.1 BES)

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

  • The ecco Anthology of International Poetry (808.81 ECC)

  • The Great Black North  (819.1 GRE)

  • The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry (821.008 HAR)

  • On the Bus with Rosa Parks (811 DOV)

  • The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry (821.008 OXF)

  • The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry (821.008 OXF)

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

  • 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.

Databases

• • Literature Resource Center - TVDSB Gale Database 

    • Poem Search - by author

      • Author = "Emily Dickinson"

      • Select document type "Poem"

    • Poem Search - by theme

      • Keyword = "dystopian"

      • Select document type "Poem"

    • 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. 

  • Literary Reference Center - TVDSB EBSCO Database 

    • Poem Search 

      • Advanced Search

      • Document Type = Poem

      • Full Text selected

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

    • Includes: The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Web Resources

• • Poetry Foundation - Collections

    • 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 - Poems by Theme (drop-down menu, choose Theme)

    • 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 Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search which means that Project Gutenberg Etexts should cost so little that no one will really care how much they cost.

    • Poetry by Subject

    • Poetry (Bookshelf)

  • 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.