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Sources for Poetry Criticism
A Research Guide to Materials in the Library
Collections of Excerpts from Critiques
CMLC Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism PN 610 .C537
CLC Contemporary Literary Criticism PN 771 .C59
LC Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 PN 86 .L56
NCLC Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism PN 761 .N5
PC Poetry Criticism PN 1010 .P6
SC Shakespearean Criticism PR 2965 .S43
TCLC Twentieth Century Literary Criticism PN 771 .G27

Overviews of Poets and Their Major Works
American Writers PR 129 .A55
American Writers Before 1800 PS 185 .A4 1983
Ancient Writers PA 3002 .A5 1982
Columbia History of American Poetry PS 303 .C64 1993
A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry PR 601 .C56 2001
Critical Survey of Poetry PR 502 .C85 1992
Dictionary of Literary Biography PN 451 .D53 1984+
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics PN 1021 .N39 1993

Online Catalog

Use a Subject Search:
Example: Poetry, History and Criticism or Frost, Robert
Use Keyword Search:
Example: Poetry and Criticism or Robert Frost and Criticism

Online Databases

To access the Palo Alto College Library Databases from OFF CAMPUS go to the library homepage <www.accd.edu/pac/htm/Current/resources/library> and click on Off-Campus Database Access under the Research Tools heading. Follow the instructions to log in. Go to the letter "L" and click on Literature Resource Center.

"The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on Gale's three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 130,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 13,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars. The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to more than 260 prominent literary journals." (Literature Resource Center. Gale Group. Ozuna Learning Resources Center. San Antonio . 14 August 2008 <HTTP:/GALENET.GALEGROUP.COM>)

Other good databases include: Literature Criticism Online which includes the complete editions of ten Gale Criticism series, Academic Search Complete, and ProQuest. Columbia Granger's World of Poetry in addition to offering searches for both the poet and the poem offers biographies, commentaries, history & criticism, poetry sources, a glossary, and a listening room.

A. Bolton-Brownlee Revised 08/08

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