Reference books are a good place to start...

Author Biographies

African American Poets: Lives, Works and Sources Ref. PS 153 .N5 P48 2002
American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies Ref. PS 129 .A55
British Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies Ref. PR 85 .B688
Contemporary Poets Ref. PN 1111 .C66 2001
Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref. PS 128 .D41
World Poets Ref. PN 1021 .W67 2000 3 Vols.

Poetry Criticism

Critical Survey of Poetry REF PN 1021 .C7 2003 8 Vols.
Handbook of Poetic Forms REF PN 1042 .T43
The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms REF PN 1042 .M94
Poetry Criticism Ref. PN 1035 .P64 Multi Volume Set
Poetry for Students  Ref. PN 1010 .P65 1997
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics REF PN 1021 .N39 1993
 

To search for books...

Library catalog: UNICORN
        Suggested subject terms:  frost, robert; poetry

Full text books online: eBooks

Online Encyclopedias

To search for journal, magazine and newspaper articles...
Note - Off campus users should access using the A-Z database list

Gale Database (journal, magazine and newspaper articles)
Literary Criticism (links to databases with literary criticism, literary works, author biographies)
 

Internet sites...

Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
Hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, over 1700 poems, and audio clips of one hundred and fifty poems read by their authors or other poets

American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920

Bartleby.com
http://bartleby.com/verse
Contains thousands of poems, several poetry anthologies including the Oxford Book of English Verse

Contemporary American Poetry Archive
http://capa.conncoll.edu
An electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers

Internet Public Library--Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit
Links to critical and biographical Web sites about US and British literary works

Modern American Poetry
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm
A multi-media companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry.  Contains poetry analysis of the works of over 160 poets

Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Old English poets to the work of living poets today

 

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