Poets to Research: (List Is Composed of Contemporary, Classic, International Poets)

Poets to Research: (List is composed of Contemporary, Classic, international Poets)

1. Maya Angelou

2. Matthew Arnold
3. Elizabeth Bishop

4. William Blake
5. Anne Bradstreet

6. The Brontë Sisters
7. Robert Browning

8. Lord Byron
9. Lewis Carrol

10. E. E. Cummings
11. Samuel Daniel

12. Emily Dickinson
13. T. S. Eliot

14. Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. Eugene Field

16. Robert Frost
17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. Ernest Hemingway
19. Langston Hughes

20. James Joyce
21. John Keats

22. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
23. Sylvia Plath

24. Edgar Allan Poe
25. William Shakespeare

26. Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. Robert Louis Stevenson

28. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
29. Dylan Thomas

30. Walt Whitman
31. William Wordsworth

32. William Butler Yeats
33. Robert Penn Warren

34. William Carlos Williams

35. Reed Whittemore

36. Gwendolyn Brooks

37. Edmund Spenser

38. John Dunne

39. D.H. Lawrence

40. Alexander Pope

41. Robert Burns

42. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

43. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44. Thomas Hardy

45. Alfred Noyes

Below is a list of helpful website that may provide more information about your poet and possibly literary criticism.

www.americanpoems.com/

www.poetryfoundation.org/

www.poetrymagazine.org/

www.poetryoutloud.org/

Poetry Review and Criticism (Finding articles which discuss a Poem)
It is not always possible to find critical articles that discuss every poem by every poet, even in the case of major poets. In those instances where an individual poem may not be explicated (analyzed), it is often possible to find articles that discuss the poet's themes and style more generally, and this may be relevant to discussion of the poem in hand.

MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1921-; electronically available, 1926-present (now with some earlier indexing & linking to JSTOR articles.
Indexes articles on poets and their poetry in scholarly journals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and dissertations. MLA indexes articles on individual poems and, in cases where an individual poem may not be explicated, there may be general discussion of a poet and his/her themes, style, etc. MLA attempts to provide coverage of all literatures excepting Classical Greek and Latin.
Article Databases, 1926-present

Annual Bibliography of English Languageand Literature. (ABELL). Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1998-.
ABELL indexes secondary materials for English-language literatures, 1920-present. To search for articles on individual poems, search for the poet as "subject" and the poem as "title keyword" (e.g., "Stevens, Wallace" as subject and "Sunday morning" as title keyword). ABELL now links to some full-text articles.
Article Databases, 1920-present

MagillOnLiterature. [Hackensack, NJ] : Salem Press, 2000-.
MagillOnLiterature links to the full text of essays drawn mainly from Magill's Masterplots series. To find essays on individual poems, search the author and/or title indexes.
Article Databases

Poetry Criticism. Detroit, MI : Gale Research Inc., c1991-.
A multi-volume set that provides "excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature." Each volume selects 8-10 poets and reprints excerpts of criticism of their work. The most recent volume indexes previous volumes.
Undergraduate Library Reference PN1010 .P449, v. 1-14

Coleman, Kathleen. Guide to French Poetry Explication. New York : G.K. Hall : Maxwell Macmillan International ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1993.
Provides citations to criticism on individual poems under author headings. Volumes in this Poetry Explication series (cf. American and British below) are often the best starting place for such criticism.
Davis Reference Desk PQ401 .C65 1993

Guide to American Poetry Explication. 2 v. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, c1989-. v.1 Colonial and Nineteenth Century, ed. James Ruppert; v.2. Modern and Contemporary, ed. John R. Leo.
Provides citations to criticism on individual poems under author headings. Volumes in this Poetry Explication series are often the best starting place for such criticism.
Davis Reference Desk Z1231.P7 G85 1989, v. 1-2.

Martinez, Nancy C. and Joseph G.R. Martinez. Guide to British Poetry Explication. 4 v. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1991-. v. 1. Old English, Medieval; v. 2. Renaissance; v. 3. Restoration-Romantic; v. 4.Victorian-Contemporary.
Provides citations to criticism on individual poems under author headings. Volumes in this Poetry Explication series are often the best starting place for such criticism.
Davis Reference Desk Z2014.P7 M34 1991, v. 1-4.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Christina Rossetti

Roald Dahl

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Rudyard Kipling

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Maya Angelou

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Walt Whitman

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Carl Sandburg

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Gary Soto

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Emily Dickinson

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William Shakespeare

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Robert Frost

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Theodore Seuss Geisel

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William Blake

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Edward Lear

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Robert Browning

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William Carlos Williams

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Lewis Carroll

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Nikki Giovanni

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Phyllis Wheatley:

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Mattie Stepanek

Langston Hughes

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