15.0 Poetry
(see also
Annual Bibliographies of Literary Scholarship,
Histories of Literature,
Biographical Reference Works, and
Manuscripts and Archives)
Brogan, T. V. F.
English Versification, 1570-1980: A Reference Guide with a Global Appendix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1981. [Z 2015 V37B76--ROBAREF]
Updated by: Brogan, T. V. F.
Verseform: A Comparative Bibliography. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, c. 1989. [Z 7156 V6B76 1989--ROBAREF]
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. Ed. Edith P. Hazen and Deborah J. Fryer. 10th ed., rev. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. [PN 1021 G7 1994--ROBAREF]
See also: Katz, William, and Linda Sternberg Katz.
The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. [PN 1021 K38 1994]
Columbia History of American Poetry. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Columbia UP, 1993. [PS 303 C64 1993]
Critical Survey of Poetry. English Language Series. Rev. Ed. Frank N. Magill. 8 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1992. [PR 502 C85 1992--VICREF]
Faverty, Frederic E., ed.
Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, c. 1968. [PR 593 F3 1968--ROBAREF]
Gingerich, Martin E.
Contemporary Poetry in America and England, 1950-1975. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide, ser. 41. Detroit, MI: Gale, c. 1983. [Z 1231 P7G56 1983--VIC]
Guide to British Poetry Explication. Boston, MA: Hall, 1991. [Z 2014 P7M341991--ROBAREF]
Vol. 1: Old English-Medieval, by Nancy Martinez and Joseph G. R. Martinez (1991).
Vol. 2: Renaissance, by Nancy Martinez and Joseph G. R. Martinez (1992).
Vol. 3: Restoration-Romantic, by Nancy Martinez, Joseph G. R. Martinez and Erland Anderson (1993).
Vol. 4: Victorian-Contemporary, by Nancy Martinez, Joseph G. R. Martinez and Erland Anderson (1995).
Hoffman, Herbert H., and Rita Ludwig Hoffman, comps.
International Index to Recorded Poetry. New York: Wilson, 1983. [PN 1022 H63 1983]
Kuntz, Joseph M., and Nancy C. Martinez.
Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present. [3rd ed.] Boston, MA: Hall, 1980. [Z 2014 P7K8 1980-ROBAREF]
Continued by: Ruppert, James, and John R. Leo.
Guide to American Poetry Explication. 2 vols. Boston, MA: Hall, 1989. [Z 1231 P7G85 1989--ROBAREF]
Marcan, Peter, comp.
Poetry Themes: A Bibliographical Index to Subject Anthologies and Related Criticism in the English Language, 1875-1975. Hamden, CT: Linnet 1977. [PN 1022 M3]
Master Index to Poetry: An Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections. 2 vols. Great Neck, NY: Poetry Index, Roth, c. 1988. [PN 1022 M37--ROBAREF]
Preminger, Alex, ed.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Rev. ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993. [PN 1021 E5 1993--ROBAREF Short Term Loan]
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Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, c. 1986. [PN 1021 E5 1986]
Turco, Lewis.
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1986. [PN 1042 T795 1986--ROBAREF]
Williams, Miller.
Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, c. 1986. [PN 1042 W514 1986]
Young, Robyn V., ed.
Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991- . [PN 1010 P614--ROBAREF]
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British
Anderson, Emily Ann.
English Poetry. 1900-1950: A Guide to Information Sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide, ser. 33. Detroit, MI: Gale, c. 1982. [Z 2014 P7A54--ROBAREF]
Beale, Walter H.
Old and Middle English Poetry to 1500: A Guide to Information Sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide, ser. 7. Detroit, MI: Gale, c. 1976. [Z 2014 P7B34--ROBAREF]
Brown, Carleton, and Rossell Hope Robbins.
The Index of Middle English Verse. New York: Index Society, 1943. [Z 2012 B86--ROBAREF]
Continued by: Robbins, Rossell Hope, and John L. Cutler.
Supplement to the Index of Middle English Verse. Lexington, KY: U of Kentucky P, c. 1966. [Z 2012 B86 Suppl.--ROBAREF]
Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell. Ed. Thomas N. Corns. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge UP, 1993. [PR 541 C36 1993]
Case, Arthur E.
A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies, 1521-1750. Oxford: Bibliographical Soc. 1935. [Z 2014 P7C3--ROBAREF]
This must be supplemented by using the first of "Poetical Miscellanies, Song Books, and Verse Collections of Multiple Authorship," cols. 327- 430, in NCBEL.
Columbia History of British Poetry. Ed. Carl Woodring. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. [PR 502 C62 1994]
Foxon, David F. English Verse, 1701-1750.
A Catalogue of Separately Printed Poems with Notes on Contemporary Collected Editions. 2 vols. New York: Cambridge UP, [1975]. [ref Z 2014 P7F69--FISHER]
Frank, Joseph.
Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry, 1641-1660. Albuquerque, NM: U of New Mexico P, 1968. [Z 2014 P7F7]
The Grolier Club's Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Work of English Writers from Langland to Prior. Rpt. 4 vols. in 1. London: Holland, 1964. [Z 2012 G869 1964--ROBAREF]
Jackson, J. R. de J.
Annals of English Verse. 1770-1835: A Preliminary Survey of the Volumes Published, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. 535. New York. Garland, 1985. [Z 2039 P6J32 1985--ROBAREF]
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Romantic Poetry By Women: A Bibliography 1770-1835. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. [Z 2013.5 W6J33 1993]
Jordan, Frank, ed.
The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism. 4th ed. New York: MLA, 1985. [PR 590 J6 1985--ROBAREF]
Martinez, Nancy, and Joseph G. R. Martinez.
Guide to British Poetry Explication. See Kuntz, Joseph M., and Nancy C. Martinez under
Poetry, above.
Mazzeno, Laurence W.
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Salem, 1995. [Z 2014 P7M35 1995--ROBAREF]
Mell, Donald C.
English Poetry, 1660-1880: A Guide to Information Sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide, ser. 40. Detroit, MI: Gale, c. 1982. [Z 2014 P7M44--ROBAREF]
Nokes, David, and Janet Barron.
An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Augustan Poetry. New York: St. Martin's, c. 1989. [Z 2014 P7N65 1989--ROBAREF]
Omond, T. S.
English Metrists: Being a Sketch of English Prosodical Criticism from Elizabethan Times to the Present Day. New York: Phaeton, 1968. [PE 1505 053]
Reiman, Donald H.
English Romantic Poetry, 1800-1835: A Guide to Information Sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide, ser. 27. Detroit, MI: Gale, c. 1979. [Z 2014 P7R46--ROBAREF]
Ringler, William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse Printed 1476-1558. London: Mansell, 1988. [Z 2014 P7R48 1988--ROBAREF]
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Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript, 1501-1558. London: Mansell, 1992. [Z 2014 P7R475 1992--ROBAREF]
Shields, Ellen F.
Contemporary English Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism to 1980. New York: Garland, 1984. [Z 2014 P7S53 1994]
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U.S.
Congdon, Kirby.
Contemporary Poets in American Anthologies 1960-1977. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1978. [Z 1231 P7 C65--ROBAREF]
Crowell's Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Karl Malkoff. New York: Crowell, 1973. [PS 323.5 M3--ROBAREF]
Davis, Gwenn.
Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991. [Z 2013.5 W6D38 1991]
Davis, Lloyd, and Robert Irwin.
Contemporary American Poetry: A Checklist. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1975. [Z 1231 P7D38--ROBAREF]
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Contemporary American Poetry: A Checklist. 2nd Ser., 1973-83. Metuchen: NJ: Scarecrow, 1985. [Z 1231 P7D38 Suppl.--ROBAREF]
Directory of American Poets. New York: Poets & Writers, 1973-75. Biennial. [PS 323.5 D57]
Continued as:
Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. 1980-. [PS 129 D57]
Gershator, Phillis.
A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature of Contemporary American Poetry, 1970-1975. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1976. [Z 1231 P7G47--ROBAREF]
Gray, R.
American Poetry of the Twentieth Century. London: Longman, 1990. [PS 323.5 G73 1990]
Guide to American Poetry Explication see Kuntz, Joseph M., and Nancy C. Martinez under
Poetry, above
Irish, Wynot R., comp.
The Modern American Muse: A Complete Bibliography of American Verse, 1900-1925. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1950. [Z 1231 P717]
Jason, Philip K.
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography. Pasadena, CA: Salem, c. 1989. [Z 1231 P7J37 1989--SIGR]
LeMay, Joseph A. Leo.
A Calendar of American Poetry in the Colonial Newspapers and Magazines and in the Major English Magazines through 1765. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1972. [Z 1231 P7L46]
McPheron, William.
The Bibliography of Contemporary American Poetry. 1945-1985: An Annotated Checklist. Literary Bibliographies. Westport, CT: Meckler, c. 1986. [Z 1231 P7M37 1986--ROBAREF]
Reardon, Joan, and Kristine Thorsen.
Poetry by American Women, 1900-1975: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979. [Z 1229 W8R4]
Reardon, Joan.
Poetry by American Women, 1975-1989: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1990. [Z 1229 W8R4 1990]
Ruppert, James, and John R. Leo.
Guide to American Poetry Explication. See Kuntz, Joseph M., and Nancy C. Martinez under
Poetry, above
Sixty American Poets, 1896-1944. Selected by Allen Tate. Rev. ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1969. [Z 1231 P7U55 1969]
Wegelin, Oscar.
Early American Poetry: A Compilation of the Titles of Volumes of Verse and Broadsides by Writers Born or Residing in North America North of the Mexican Border, 1650-1820. 2nd ed. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Peter Smith, 1930. [Z 1231 P7W4 1930--ROBAREF]
Zulauf, Sander W., et al.
Index of American Periodical Verse. 1971- . Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1973- . [Z 1231 P7147--ROBAREF]
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Canadian Canadian Writers and Their Works.
Poetry Series. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. 12 vols. Toronto: ECW, 1983-96. [PS 8141 C37--ROBAREF]
Centre de recherches de littérature canadienne-française de l'université d'Ottawa. La poésie canadienne-française: perspectives historigues et thématiques, profils de poètes témoignages, bibliographie. Archives des lettres canadiennes. IV. Montreal: Fides, 1969. [PS 9141 P6--ROBAREF]
Fraser, Ian Forbes.
Bibliography of French-Canadian Poetry. New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia U, c. 1935. [Z1377 F8F8--ROBAREF]
Lochhead, Douglas G., comp.
A Checklist of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Poetry in English. Sackville, NB; Centre for Canadian Studies, Mt. Allison U, 1987. [Z 1377 P7L63 1987--ROBAREF]
McQuarrie, Jane, Anne Mercer, and Gordon Ripley, eds.
Index to Canadian Poetry in English. Toronto: Reference, 1984. [Z 1377 P7M28 1984--ROBAREF]
Stevens, Peter.
Modern English-Canadian Poetry: A Guide to Information Sources. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide, ser. 15. Detroit, MI: Gale, c. 1979 [Z 1377 P7S79--ROBAREF]
Stuart, Ross, and Thomas B. Vincent.
A Chronological Index of Locally Written Verse Published in the Newspapers and Magazines of Upper and Lower Canada, Maritime Canada, and Newfoundland Through 1815. Kingston, ON: Loyal Colonies, 1979. [Z 1377 P7S84--ROBAREF]
Woodcock, George.
Canadian Poets, 1960-1973. Ottawa: Golden Dog, 1976. [Z 1377 P7W6--ROBAREF]
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