Poetry - Print Resources - ENC 1102 (Brandon) - LibGuides at Hillsborough Community College

Print Books from the circulating collection:

The following are examples of books on poetry in the Brandon Campus Library. These books may be checked out for two-weeks. You may also search for a specific author in the library catalog, PRIMO. (To find information in PRIMO about your poet, put in your poet's name and use the filters on the results screen for SUBJECT. )

The End of the Poem by Paul Muldoon
Call Number: PN1271.M85 2006
ISBN: 0374148104
Publication Date: 2006-10-03
Poet Paul Muldoon's fifteen lectures at Oxford University, on a diverse group of mainly 20th century poems.
Forms of Poetry by James L. Calderwood, ed.
Call Number: PR1174.C3 1968 (Plant City)
Organizes poems by genre. Includes brief annotations to each poem as well as a longer article describing the genre.
How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch
Call Number: PN1042.H48 1999
ISBN: 0151004196
Publication Date: 1999-03-22
The Idiom of Love by Judith Sproxton
Call Number: PN1076.S678 2000
ISBN: 0715628267
Publication Date: 2000-07-11
Explores how the expression of love through poetry in Western Europe changed over the centuries.
Modern British Poetry, 1900-1939 by James Persoon
Call Number: PR610.P43 1999
ISBN: 0805716815
Publication Date: 1999-08-13
History of British poetry, focusing mainly on war poetry of WWI.
Romantic Poetry by Karl Kroeber (Editor); Gene W. Ruoff (Editor)
Call Number: PR590.R59 1993
ISBN: 081352010X
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
After a background essay, poets discussed are: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
William Shakespeare's The Sonnets by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR2848.S46 1987
ISBN: 9780877549383
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
critical interpretations

Print Books from the Reference Colelction

These books may be used in the Library. Photocopiers are available for your convenience.

Critical Survey of Poetry, Foreign Language Series by Frank N. Magill (Editor)
Call Number: REF PN41.C7 1984
ISBN: 9780893563509
Publication Date: 1984-06-01
5-vol. set includes biographical, critical material on 197 individual authors plus comprehensive essays on the poetry of various countries.
Poetry Criticism
Call Number: REF PN1126.P64
84-vol. set of poetry criticism, published by Gale. Use the title index volume to find a specific poem; use the Cumulative author index at the back of the most recent volume to find author information. The code for Poetry Criticism in the index is PC. For more information on using the Gale series, click on the "Using Gale Literary Criticism Series" tab.
Poetry Dictionary by John Drury
Call Number: REF PN1021.D78 1995
ISBN: 1884910041
Publication Date: 1995-09-15
Defines key terms; includes over 100 illustrative poems. Includes elements of poetry, movements, forms and language tools.
Poetry for Students by Marie Rose Napierkowski
Call Number: REF PN1101.P756 1999
ISBN: 0787616885
Publication Date: 1997-10-20
5-vol. set
World Poets by Ron Padgett, ed.
Call Number: REF PN10212.W67 2000
ISBN: 068480591X
Publication Date: 2000-05-05
3-volume set. Each author entry includes biographical information, an introduction to his place in literature and explication of several of the author's most important or representative poems. Bibliography included.

Web Links

Some of these resources are taken from the HCC Libraries' Subject Websites, Internet Resources, Humanities

Dickinson Electronic Archives
studies of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work. The DEA is produced by the Dickinson Editing Collective.
Glossary of Poetic Terms
Modern American Poetry
"online journal and multimedia companion to "Anthology of Modern American Poetry" (Oxford University Press, 2000). Click on "Poets." Includes information on 161 poets.
Poetry Foundation
Click on "Archive - Poetry Tool." Select poems, poets, AV, articles and more. For more information, select "Archive - Reading Guides."
Walt Whitman Archive
An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s work easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers

ENC 1102 (Brandon): Poetry - Print Resources

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