Subject Guides & Tutorials: Literature Resources: Poetry

Poetry

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Literature Online is an essential resource for the study and teaching of literature in English, combining the texts of over 350,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources. Literature Online also includes audio and video content through its Poets on Screen recordings of poets reading their own and others' works and the Shakespeare Audio Plays collection.

Poets on Screen
The Poets on Screen Library contains 879 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
Poetry Archive Audio
The Poetry Archive was established to create recordings of important contemporary poets based on the belief that such readings are a powerful source of insight, understanding and enjoyment.

Sample Searches and Additional Poetry Resources in GoWYLD.net

Under the subject, Student Research, select High School (Gale In Context). Selecting Browse Topic, you will find: Poetry. This includes a poetry overview, Critical Thinking questions for students to consider, major works and authors.

From the main page, you can conduct a search, for example, poets. Then narrow to Creative Works. This will result in poems that Include notes within the poem to explain and define. Poets such as, Keats, Milton, Frost, Palmer, Holmes.

Exploring Poetry (search “exploring poetry” Publication Title in Advanced Search)

Select Manhole Covers. (result # 18 on April 6, 2021) Notice the More Like This links on the right that allow for deeper exploration of the work.

For book titles, take a look at Books & Authors. Select nonfiction + humanities + Literature. Then search poetry to browse titles. Or try an advanced search selecting nonfiction, young adult and subject poetry boxes. No need to add terms to search boxes to get results.