Contents:

• Biographical/Critical Reference Sources
• Compilations of Reprints of Criticism
• Bibliographies
• Locating Criticism of Individual Poems

Columbia History of American Poetry (REF PS 303 C64 1993)

Contemporary Poets (REF PR603.C6 1991).

Presents biographical and critical essays on living poets writing in English.

Contemporary Women Poets (REF PS 151 C67 1997)

Crowell's Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry (REF PS 323.5 M3)

Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series (REF PN1021.C69 1982).

Essays on important English-language poets from the beginnings of oral poetry to the present. The cumulated author/title index is included in Vol. 8.

Critical Survey of Poetry: Foreign Language Series (REF PN1021.C7 1984).

Essays on important foreign language poets from Homer to the present. Cumulated author/title index is in Vol. 5.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (REF PS88.D57).

An on-going series of reference works with entries consisting of extended critical essays on individual writers. To find the entry on a particular poet, check the cumulative author index in the back of the last volume of the series. This set is included in the online Literature Resource Center also.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (REF PS 316 E63 1998)

Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English (REF PR 601.O9 1994)

Poets American and British (REF PS 308 P64 1998)

17th Century American Poetry: A Reference Guide (REF Z 1227 S3)

Thematic Guide to British Poetry (REF PS 502 G55 2002)

Literature Criticism from 1400 TO 1800 (REF PN86.L53).

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (REF PN761.N5).

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism(REF PN771.G27).

Contemporary Literary Criticism (REF PN771.C59).

Poetry Criticism (REF PN1010.P63).

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM--BIBLIOGRAPHY.

American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism (REF DESK PS303.A44 1984).

Criticism of poems 1000 lines or less. vol.: 1925-1978; vol. 2: 1979-1990.

Old and Middle English Poetry to 1500, A Guide to Information Sources (REF Z 2014.P7B34).

Articles on Women Writers (REF Z2013.5.W6S37).

Vol. 1 includes criticism written 1960-75; Vol 2, criticism written 1976-84 on American & British writers of poetry, fiction, and short stories.

English Poetry: Select Bibliographica Guides(REF Z 2014 .P7D9).

Epic and Romance Criticism (REF Z7156.E6C64).

 Lists criticism of longer poems.

Vol. 1: A Checklist of Interpretations 1940-1972 of English & American Epics and Metrical Romances, covers Beowulf to Ginsberg.
Vol. 2: A Checklist of Interpretations 1940 -1973 of Classical and Continental Epics and Metrical Romances, covers poems originally written in a foreign language.

Guide to American Poetry Explication.

Lists criticism written 1925 to 1987.
Vol. 1: Colonial & Nineteenth Century (REF DESK PS201.R87 1989).
Vol. 2: Modern & Contemporary (REF DESK PS221.L46 1989).

Vol. 1: Old English - Medieval
Vol. 2: The Renaissance.
Vol. 3: Restoration - Romantic
Vol. 4: Victorian - Contemporary

Criticism of poems of less than 500 lines long, published through 1977.

Sonnet in England and America: A Bibliography of Criticism (REF PR509.S7D66 1982).

Literary Criticism Index (REF DESK PN523.W44 1994).

An index to 86 major indexes and bibliographies of literary criticism. Arranged by author and then poem title, the listing is to one of the 86 indexes rather than directly to the criticism.