LibGuides: Poetry: Reference

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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations by Edith Hazen (Editor)
Call Number: REF 808.881 COLUMBIA
Publication Date: 1992
Provides key word and subject indexes to a collection of the most memorable lines written by the best British and American poets.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century by Haralson (Editor)
Call Number: REF 811.3 ENCYCLOPEDIA
Publication Date: 1998
With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Preminger, Brogan (Editor), & Warnke (Editors)
Call Number: REF 808.103 NEW
Publication Date: 1993
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology.
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English by Ian Hamilton (Editor)
Call Number: REF 821.9109 OXFORD
Publication Date: 1994
From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and America to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore,Trinidad, Zimbabwe - anywhere, if fact, where poets write in English.
Words to Rhyme With by Willard R. Espy
Call Number: REF 423.1 Espy
Publication Date: 2001
This essential comprehensive resource for poets and songwriters is back in print with expanded material on rhyming and word usage.
World Poets by Ron Padgett
Call Number: REF 809.1 WORLD v. 1-3
Publication Date: 2000
Alphabetically arranged articles on 107 poets from around the world, accompanied by fifteen essays on various genres and schools of poetry.

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CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
CREDO contains all kinds of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, and subject-specific titles from some of the top university presses in the United States. It also includes over 200,000 images and audio files and over 1200 videos.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
The accepted authority on the English language, providing an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 280,000 entries – past and present – from across the English-speaking world.A great choice for investigating the history of words and their meaning.

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry by Hamilton & Noel-Tod (Editors)
Publication Date: 2013
This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day.
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by Greene & Cushman (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016
Provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland & Cushman (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016
Provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe.