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Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - -200,000 poem citations searchable by title, first or last line, author, subject, or keyword. Contains 16,000 full-text poems, as well as biographical and critical entries for well known works and authors.

Discovering Collection - -a comprehensive cross-curricular source containing thousands of full-text entries on a broad range of topics.

Literature Resource Center  - provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Oxford Reference Online - provides searchable access to 100 dictionary and reference titles pubished by Oxford Press including The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English.

Wilson Omnifile - includes databases covering a broad range of subjects including humanities resources.

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• American Literature 
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• Mississippi Quarterly http://www.misssq.msstate.edu 
• Poetry

• Southern Review http://www.lsu.edu/thesouthernreview
• Twentieth Century Literature 

The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. Edith P. Hazen, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. REF PN 1022 .H39 1994 Contains three indexes within one volume: title and first line, author, and subject.

Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series. Magill, ed. Salem Press, 1992. REF PR 502 .C85 1992 This eight volume set includes 368 articles on individual poets.

Masterplots II: Poetry Series. Magill, ed. Salem Press, 1992. REF PN 1110.5 .M37 1992 The six volumes contain discussions of 760 English language poems with a few well-known translations included. The scope is international and covers from the 7th through the 20th centuries. Each entry is divided into three sections. "The Poem" provides an over view of the "Themes and Meanings" examines underlying issues. Each entry begins with brief biographical information ab out the author.

Poetry Criticism. Young, ed. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1991. REF PN 1111 .P63 1991 Poetry Criticism presents critical excerpts and biographical information on well known world poets. Each volume includes a cumulative author, nationality, and title index. The Contemporary Authors cumulative index (REF Z 1224 .C6 Index) covers this series.

Poetry for Students. Napierkowski, Marie Rose, ed. Detroit: Gale Research 1998. REF PN 1101 .P64 1998. Presents analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry.

World Poets. Ron Padgett, ed. New York: Scribner, 2000. REF PN 1021.W67 2000. This three volume set describes the life and works of 110 poets.  It also contains relevant information about various aspects of poetry and writing poetry..

American Academy of Poets (http://www.poets.org/index.cfm)  This site currently includes biographies, photos, and other information on more than 400 poets.  One thousand poems are available.  Search the site or browse to find poets and poems.

Internet Public Library Literature Criticism (http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/) - Criticism of various literary genres, including poetry.

Librarians's Internet Index (http://www.lii.org/pub/topic/poetry)- Annotated list of links to poetry resouces.