Criticism of Poetry

  • Alexander, Harriet Simmes, comp American and British poetry: a guide to the criticism, 1925-1978. Athens: Swallow, 1984. Z 1231 P7A44

     

  • Baker, Jeffrey A An index to criticisms of British and American poetry. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1973. [This covers the period 1960-70.] Z 2014 P7C5

     

  • Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York: Bartleby Project at Columbia University. (18 vols. 1907-21)

     

  • Early Modern Literary Studies, founded by Raymond Siemens and edited by Lisa Hopkins at Sheffield

     

  • Eberle-Sinatra, Michael, ed. Romanticism On the Net. 1996-.

     

  • Faverty, Frederic E., ed The Victorian poets: a guide to research. 2nd edn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969. PR 593 F3 1968 [Arnold, Bridges, Browning (Robert and Elizabeth Barrett), Clough, Davidson, Dowson, Fitzgerald, Hardy, Henley, Hopkins, Housman, Johnson (Lionel), Kipling, Meredith, Patmore, Rossetti (Dante Gabriel and Christina), Stevenson, Swinburne, Tennyson, Thompson, Thomson, and Wilde] PR 593 F3 1968

     

  • Houtchens, Carolyn Washburn and Lawrence Huston The English Romantic poets & essayists: a review of research and criticism. 1957: Modern Language Association of America, 1966. [Blake, Lamb, Hazlitt, Scott, Southey, Campbell, Moore, Landor, Hunt, De Quincey, Carlyle.] PR 590 H65 1966

     

  • Jordan, Frank, ed The English Romantic poets: a review of research and criticism. 4th edn. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1985. [Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth] PR 590 J6 1985

     

  • Kuntz, Joseph M., and Nancy C. Martinez, ed Poetry explication: a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present. 3rd edn. Boston: Hall, 1980. Z 2014 P7K8 1980

     

  • Marcan, Peter. Poetry themes: a bibliographical index to subject anthologies and related criticism in the English language, 1875-1975. London: Clive Bingley, 1977. PN 1022 M3

     

  • Martinez, Nancy C., Joseph G. R. Martinez, and Erland Anderson Guide to British poetry explication. 4 vols. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991-95. Z 2014 P7M34

     

  • Peacock, Molly. How to read a poem ... and start a poetry circle. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

     

  • Poetry criticism: excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature Vol. I-. Detroit: Gale, 1991-. [33 volumes to 2001.] PN 1010 P499

     

  • Postmodern Culture, on-line journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press and University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

     

  • Reiman, Donald H., ed The Romantics reviewed: contemporary reviews of British Romantic writers. New York: Garland, 1972. PR 590 R43

     

  • Ruppert, James, and John R. Leo. Guide to American Poetry Explication. 2 vols. Boston: Hall, 1989. Z 1231 P7G85 1989

 

  • Shields, Ellen F. Contemporary English Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism to 1980. New York: Garland, 1984. Z 2014 P7S53 1984

     

  • Smith, G. Gregory, ed. Elizabethan critical essays. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904. PR 70 S6

     

  • Spingarn, J. E., ed. Critical essays of the seventeenth century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. PR 72 S7