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=**Internet Resources**=

**As a starting point, go to**
Wikipedia A simple search for American or English poetry will give you a basic overview of big names and important periods for poetry.

Search for key words that you can use to explore and extend your thinking, and use the Reference Lists at the end of entries to find other resources.

**If you are searching for information on specific poets or poems, try**
Shmoop A sort of thinking man's Cliff Notes, this site contains analysis of poems. Check out "Best of the Web" for selected sites that include images and videos. Click on Poetry, then look for particular poems.

Gale Literature Resource Center The best database for finding information about literature.

Columbia Granger's Poetry Database The best database for finding information about poetry.

**If you are looking for actual poems, you might try**
Columbia Granger's Poetry Database Contains thousands of full-text poems and commentary.

Poetry Foundation's Poetry Tool Use this tool to look up poems and poets in a variety of ways: by category or occasion, for example, or by last name or period.

Bartleby.com: Verse This section of the Bartleby.com site includes the online text of several public-domain poetry anthologies and collections, including The Oxford Book of English Verse, Modern American Poetry, Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. , and many others. There is a search engine for searching all of Bartleby.com's texts, and you can also narrow it down to just the Verse section.

An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry Online This is the author index to a site run out of the University of Toronto; it can also be searched by title, date, and keyword. The emphasis is on British poetry, but it is quite comprehensive within that framework; in addition, each poet on this site has at least two or three poems listed.

=**Print Resources**=

Poetry can be difficult to find online if it is more recent. We have many poetry books in print if you are having trouble locating a particular poem online. Search our catalog by author or by period.

**For information on literary styles and periods, try**
//Norton Anthology of Poetry// 821.008 NOR

//Postmodern American Poetry// 811.54 POS

//The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms// REF 803 BAL

//Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia// REF 803 BEN

//Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature// REF 803 MER

//The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry// REF 821 OXF

//The Oxford Companion to English Literature// REF 820.9 OXF

If you want to find more books like this, or books of and about poetry in general, they can be found under the **800's** in the library. Normally, call numbers need to be more specific than this, but poetry is scattered throughout this range: anthologies of poetry, works by only one poet, and poetry in different languages all have different call numbers. If you wish to look up similar titles in either a card catalog or an on-line library catalog, the official **Library of Congress Subject Headings** under which they can be found are:


 * Poetry—Collections**
 * Poetry—[name of country] for example: Poetry—United States**