Research Guides: ENG 240: Introduction to Poetry : Background Information

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Biography Databases

Research databases with biographies of poets. Students, faculty and staff working off-campus will need a library PIN to access these databases.

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Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry by Eric L. Haralson (Editor)
Call Number: PS323.5 .E52 2001 4th Floor Stacks - LIB USE ONLY
Publication Date: 2001
The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries by Terry V. F. Brogan
Call Number: PN1021 .N392 1996 - 4th Floor Library
ISBN: 0691010897
Publication Date: 1996
The goal of this handbook is to embrace in a structured and reasoned way the diversity of poetry as it is known across the globe today.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Alex Preminger (Editor); T. V. F. Brogan (Editor); Frank J. Warnke (Editor)
Call Number: PN1021 .N39 1993 - 4th Floor Stacks
ISBN: 0691032718
Publication Date: 1993
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics accounts for the extraordinary change and explosion of knowledge within literary and cultural studies since the 1970s.

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