RECOMMENDED INFORMATION SOURCES FOR POETRY RESEARCH

Reference Databases

• Contemporary Authors

• Biography Resource Center

• see instructions on using NoodleTools for Citing Contemporary Authors database citing_Contemp_Authors.pdf

Reference Shelves

• World Literature Criticism – Volumes 5 & 6 (REF 808 Wor)

• Magill’s Survey of American Literature – 8 Volumes (REF 810.9)

• Twentieth Century Authors – (REF 809 Kun)

Regular Shelving Reference Sources

• Great American Writers: Twentieth Century – 13 Volumes (810.9)

• American Poetry – 2 Volumes (811 Ame)

• Literary Lifelines – 10 Volumes (809 Lit)

• Dictionary of American Biography – 10 Volumes (920.03)

• Current Biography – 1941–Present (920 Cur)

Regular Shelving Individual Author Coverage

• Edwin Arlington Robinson

• Robert Frost

• Langston Hughes

• E.E. Cummings

• Marianne Moore

• T.S. Eliot

• Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Carl Sandburg

Note: Use a keyword search in the electronic card catalog to find a source dedicated to the individual writers listed above.