Holman Library

ENG& 113: Introduction to Poetry

• Appreciation of poetry through a study of poetic techniques and through extensive readings in various poetic forms by selected poets

Instructor: Amanda Schaefer aschaefe@greenriver.edu

Librarian: Teresa Jones tjones@greenriver.edu

• Listening to the Stars before Dawn
• Encyclopedias & Indexes
• Electronic Books
• Circulating Books
• Journals in the Field
• Research Databases
• Web Resources
• Subject Headings
• Citation Tips

Encyclopedias & Indexes

• American musical traditions / edited by Jeff Todd Titon and Bob Carlin
  Reference Collection: 781.62 A512 2002

• Contemporary poets / editor, Tracy Chevalier
  Reference Collection: 821.009 C761 1991

• Critical survey of poetry. English language series / edited by Frank N. Magill
  Reference Collection: 821.009 C934 1992

• Granger's Index to poetry  / Edith Granger
  eference Collection: 808.81 G758i 1986

• Last lines : an index to the last lines of poetry / Victoria Kline
  Reference Collection: 808.81 K65l 1991

• New Grove dictionary of music and musicians / edited by Stanley Sadie
  Reference Collection: 780.3 G884d 2002

• Oxford companion to 20th-century poetry in English / edited by Ian Hamilton
  Electronic Book 1996

• Oxford companion to music / edited by Alison Latham
  Electronic Book 2002

• Poetry criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature
  Reference Collection: 809.1 P745 1991

• Poetry dictionary / John Drury
  Reference Collection:  808.103 D796p 1995

• Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry / edited by Mark Willhardt and Alan Michael Parker
  Reference Collection:  809.104 W628 2000

Electronic Books

• American scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation / Jonah Raskin
  Electronic Book: 2004

• Critical companion to Beowulf  / Andy Orchard
  Electronic Book:  2003

• Edgar Allan Poe / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
  Electronic Book:  1999

• Feminist avant-garde in American poetry / Elisabeth A. Frost
  Electronic Book:  2003

• Hesiod's Ascra / Anthony T. Edwards
  Electronic Book:  2004

• John Milton comprehensive research and study guide / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
  Electronic Book:  1999

• Lyric interventions: feminism, experimental poetry, and contemporary discourse / Linda A. Kinnahan
  Electronic Book 2004

• Rebound: the American poetry book / edited by Michael Hinds and Stephen Matterson
  Electronic Book 2004

• Walt Whitman / David S. Reynolds
  Electronic Book 2005

Circulating Books

• 12 poets; William Shakespeare, John Donne, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, A.E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot
  Main Collection:  821.082 1965

• American popular music : from minstrelsy to MTV / Larry Starr
  Main Collection:  781.64 S896a 2003

• An American triptych : Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin
  Main Collection:  811.009 M383a 1984

• American women poets, 1650-1950 / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
  Main Collection:  811.009 A512 2002

• The concept of nature in nineteenth-century English poetry / Joseph Warren Beach
  Main Collection:   821.709 B365c 1966

• Songs of ourselves: the uses of poetry in America / Joan Shelley Rubin
  Main Collection:  811.009 R896s 2007

• Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
  Main Collection:   814.3 E53xr 2008

• Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass
  Main Collection:  811.5 H112t 2007

• Gender and the poetics of excess : moments of brocade / Karen Jackson Ford
  Main Collection:  811.009 F699g 1997

• American war poetry: an anthology / edited by Lorrie Goldensohn
  Main Collection:  811.008 A512 2006

• Great modern poets / edited by Michael Schmidt
  Main Collection:  821.9109 G786 2006

• Dickinson's misery: a theory of lyric reading / Virginia Jackson
  Main Collection:  811.4 D553xJd 2005

• Emily Dickinson's poetry/ Robert Weisbuch. Weisbuch
  Main Collection:  811.4 D553x 1975

• Emily Dickinson's poetry : stairway of surprise / by Charles R. Anderson
  Main Collection:  811.4 D553xAne 1982

• First poets: lives of the ancient Greek poets / Michael Schmidt
  Main Collection:  881 S353f 2005

• Good poems for hard times / selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor
  Main Collection:  811.008 G646 2005

• Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated and with notes by Charles Martin
  Main Collection:  871.2 O96m 2005

• Trouble with poetry and other poems / Billy Collins
  Main Collection:  811.5 C712t 2005

• War and the Iliad / by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
  Main Collection:  883 H766xWw 2005

• Aeneid / Virgil; translated by John W. Mackail
  Main Collection:  873.1 V497ae 2004

• Best poems of the English language: from Chaucer through Frost / selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom
  Main Collection:  821.008 B561 2004

• Blues line: blues lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters / edited by Eric Sackheim
  Main Collection:  781.643 B658 2004

• Gilgamesh : a new English version / Stephen Mitchell
  Main Collection:  892.1 G473 2004

• Walt Whitman / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
  Main Collection:  811.3 W615xwal 2008

Journals in the Field

• American Literature

American poetry review
Poetry
Poetry Northwest
Poets & writers

• English Literature

Milton quarterly
Poetess archive journal
Victorian poetry
Wordsworth circle

• General: Periodicals - General & Popular

Rolling stone

• Languages & Literatures: Literature - General

Journal of modern literature

• Music

Research Databases

Web Resources

• American Verse Project
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Poet's Corner
• Poetry Archive
• Poetry Archives
• Poetry Magic
• Poetry Portal
• Voice of the Shuttle

Subject Headings