Poetry of WWI

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Assignment

Print

• • Oakridge Catalogue

    • WWI Poetry

• • 1. Das, Santanu. The Cambridge companion to the poetry of the First World War. New York : Cambridge University Press, (2013).

    2. Kendall, Tim. (1970-). Poetry of the First World War : an anthology. Oxford : Oxford University Press, (2014).

Databases

• • Literature Resource Center - TVDSB Gale Database 

    • Try an Advanced Search, 

      • Keyword: "world war i"

      • by document type "Poem"

  • Literary Reference Center - TVDSB EBSCO Database 

    • Try an Advanced Search, 

      • "World War I"

      • Document Type "Poem"

Encyclopedias

• • The Canadian Encyclopedia

    • The Canadian Encyclopedia contains more than 30,000 multimedia items including images, maps, games, audio and video. Multimedia is augmented through acquisition and partnerships with Maclean’s magazine and The Canadian Press. The interactive features include curated content exhibits, interactive timelines, immediate updates of important events, and a user-generated content map that invites Canadians to share their stories. 

  • 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.

Web Site

• • Representative Poetry Online from the University of Toronto 

    • Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 4,700 English poems by 723 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s. 

Government

• • Canadian War Museum 

    • Search on "poetry"

  • Canadian Poetry Audio Archives

    • Search on "world war i"

    • The Canadian Poetry Audio Archives is Canada's first online bilingual poetry audio archive. The database contains a sampling of audio recordings of Canada's most acclaimed poets reading from their works, transcripts of poems and photographs. Although the interface for the database is bilingual, poetry transcripts, audio recordings and poem titles appear in their original language only. Transcripts are provided for all audio recordings.

Graphics

• • Online Graphic Design Apps