LibGuides: Poetry Research: Getting Started

Finding Books

Options for searching the Library Catalog include:

Reed Library: search for books and media at Reed.
Reed + Summit: find and request items from Reed and Summit Libraries.
Reed + Summit + Articles: access to thousands of journal article links, along with Reed and Summit items.
To find materials beyond Reed and Summit libraries, click the "search WorldCat" button. This expands your search to libraries worldwide and allows you to request materials through Interlibrary Loan.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Ref PN1021 .N39 2012
"Provides surveys of 106 national poetries; descriptions of poetic forms and genres...detailed explanations of the devices of prosody and rhetoric; and overviews of all major schools of poetry ancient and modern, Western and Eastern...provides balanced and comprehensive accounts of the major movements and issues in criticism and literary theory."

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism This link opens in a new window
Historical survey of critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Updated annually.

American National Biography
ANB offers biographies for more than 19,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the American nation.
Contemporary Authors
Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors
Oxford English Dictionary
Ref PE1625 .87 1989
Gives the meaning, pronunciation and history of over 500,000 words. The OED traces a word's usage through quotations from many sources from different time periods.