OWL - books & articles
- Search OWL (Oakton's Whole Library)
Via this link you can search for books, news articles, and academic articles. It casts a very wide net so you'll have to narrow your search quite a bit. After you enter the initial search, you can filter (limit) your results.
Subjects:
Poetry | Poetry Authorship | Poetry Study and teaching | American Poetry | English Poetry | {search by name of poet}
To find poetry anthologies, use this subject heading:
Poetry Collections
Databases & Guides
- Literary Reference Source EBSCO This link opens in a new windowContains the full text of articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, author interviews, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, classic texts, and plot summaries, synopses and work overviews as well as eBook versions of many authoritative reference resources.
- Poetry for Students - GVRL This link opens in a new windowFeatures discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction. 1998 to present.
- Credo Reference - All Subjects Search This link opens in a new windowSuitable for background information on poetic terms. Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, and quotations, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles.
- Academic Search Complete EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals - of which more than 7,300 are peer-reviewed journals.
- A-Z Databases: BooksThe Library offers an array of online resources to help you find books at Oakton and beyond.