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Article Databases Catalog for Finding Books Recommended Web Sites Selected Poetry Reference Books in Skyline College Library Article Databases: Literature Resource Center on-campus or off-campus w/ library card START HERE for high quality full-text literary criticism articles & biographical information on authors. info - For more precise searches, click on the Advanced Search button on the blue task bar - In the Advanced Search mode, “Keyword” searches are usually most effective - When results for a search are first displayed, only "Literature Criticism" articles are listed. Click on the “Biographies", "Topic & Work Overviews", “Reviews & News” or “Primary Sources” tabs for additional articles. Student Resources in Context: Literature on-campus or off-campus w/ library card Magazine, journal, newspaper and reference articles on literary works, literary topics, genres & movements and authors. info Gale LitFinder on-campus or off-campus w/ library card Nearly 150,000 full-text poems and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches, and plays, plus biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. info JSTOR - Scholarly journals archives on campus or off-campus w/ library card Back issues of important scholarly journals (no current issues) Google Scholar - academic articles, papers, books Academic articles, papers and books. For articles that do not provide full-text, use the Skyline Library Article Delivery Service. Reference Database: Oxford English Dictionary on-campus or off-campus w/ library card Definitions for most words in the English language, plus information on word origins Books: PLS Online Catalog Catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below: Type search words in the first search box To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library: scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, on the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button. Recommended Web Sites: Literary Criticism Resources (IPL): Links to other literary criticism sites, organized by author, title, nationality and literary period. Online Literary Criticism Guide (IPL): “Some of the best starting places for finding online critical writing.” Online Books Page: Links to over 15,000 on-line books and shorter texts by author and title. Bartleby.com: Database of thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain plus encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & close to 100,000 quotations. Litweb: Ninth Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature. Poetry: Poetry Foundation Poetry Tool: poems, poets, audio and visual material, articles, and children's poetry Poets' Corner: Over 7300 poems by about 800 poets, including a subject index. American Verse Project: More than 150 volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson. A comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry. Representative Poetry Online (RPO): includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry , established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 Poetry Archives: Archives of thousands of copyright free poems. Poets.org: From The Academy of American Poets. Bartleby.com: Poetry anthologies and thousands of poems. Dover’s 101 Great American Poems: Table of Contents Poetry Explication: Critical Analysis of Poetry: Step-by-step instruction on how to analyze poetry. Poetry Explications: Reviews some of the important techniques of approaching and writing a poetry explication, and includes parts of two sample explications. Selected Poetry Reference Books in Skyline College Library: The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works / edited by Nicholas Frankovich. Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1022.C63 1996 The Columbia Granger's guide to poetry anthologies / William Katz, Linda Sternberg Katz. Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1111.K38 1991 Critical Survey of Poetry : English language series / edited by Frank N. Magill ; academic director, Walton Beacham. Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1111.C7 The Poetry Dictionary / John Drury ; foreword by Dana Gioia. Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1021.D78 1995 Poetry Explication: A checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present / by Joseph M. Kuntz Available in Library Reference: REF/PR502.K868 1962 Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics / Alex Preminger, editor ; Frank J. Warnke and O.B. Hardison, Jr., associate editors. Available in Library Reference: REF/PN1021.P7 1974 .

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