Resources

Grant Wood, "Fall Plowing"

 

Library Databases & Indexes

American Poetry Full-text database The American Poetry Full-Text Database features the works of more than 200 American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century.

English Poetry Full-text database English Poetry, Second Edition contains more than 183,000 poems, comprising essentially the complete canon of poetry in English from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, the collection represents the work of more than 2,700 poets. Details of the works included in English Poetry, Second Edition are given in the bibliography.

Modern Language Association Bibliography The basic index for literature, 1963present. Indexes material on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.

Literature Online including The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) and brief biographical information. You may search for words within the full texts of literary works, including poems.

Biographical Material: Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Authors. Click on "search all literature databases" then type in the author's name (first name last name works). Note: the only authors from your list who do not have entries in DLB/CA are Siegfried Sasson, Grace Nichol, and Evan Boland. There are other links for these authors.

Metrics and Prosody:

examples from modern poetry

examples from African-American poetry

Discussion Questions:

Britain:

W. H. Auden

Jean Binta-Breeze

Evan Boland

T. S. Eliot (Florence's questions)

Seamus Heaney

Jacquie Kay

D. H. Lawrence

Liz Lochhead

Grace Nichols

Wilfred Owen (Florence's questions)

Ruth Pitter

Isaac Rosenberg (Florence's questions)

Siegfried Sassoon (Florence's questions)

Edith Sitwell

Stevie Smith

Dylan Thomas

W. B. Yeats

Oscar Wilde

Suggestions on Writing an Essay

 

United States:

Elizabeth Bishop

Gwendolyn Brooks

Hilda Doolittle

Robert Frost

Angelina Grimke

Langston Hughes (Florence's questions)

Denise Levertov

Edgar Lee Masters

Claude McKay

Marianne Moore

Simon Ortiz

Sylvia Plath

Leslie Marmon Silko

Gary Snyder

Wallace Stevens

Cathy Song