General Indexes to Poems

  • Brewton, John Edmund. Index to poetry for children and young people, 1964-1969. New York: Wilson, 1972. PN 1023 B742

     

  • Bruncken, Herbert. Subject index to poetry: a guide for adult readers. Chicago: American Library Association, 1940-. PN 1021 B7

     

  • Crum, M., ed. First-line index of English poetry, 1500-1800, in manuscripts of the Bodleian Library. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. PN 1021 C78

     

  • Davis, Gwenn, and Beverly A. Joyce. Poetry by women to 1900: a bibliography of American and British writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Z 2013.5 W6D38 1991

     

  • Frankovich, Nicholas, ed The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. [50,000+ poems by 251 authors in 225 volumes.] PN 1021 G7 1996X

     

  • Hazen, Edith P., ed The Columbia Granger's dictionary of poetry quotations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. [4,000 poems.] PN 6082 C57

     

  • Hazen, Edith P., and Deborah J. Fryer, eds. The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. 10th edn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. PN 1021 G7 1994

     

  • Hoffman, Herbert H., and Rita Ludwig Hoffman=2E International index to recorded poetry. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1983. PN 1022 H63 1983

     

  • Kline, Victoria Last lines: an index to the last lines of poetry. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1991. PN 1022 .K55 1991

     

  • Liu, Alan, ed. The Voice of the Shuttle. [an indispensable index to humanities literature on-line]

     

  • Lynch, Jack. Literary Resources on the Web. Dept. of English, Rutgers University.

     

  • Master index to poetry: an index to poetry in anthologies and collections. 2 vols. Great Neck, N.Y.: Roth, 1988. [Uses indexes by Granger, Brewston, Bruncken, Roth, and Sell.] PN 1022 M37 1988

     

  • Morris, Helen. The New Where's that poem? an index of poems for children arranged by subject, with a bibliography of books of poetry. 4th edn. Cheltenham: Stanley Thornes, 1994.

     

  • Opie, Iona and Peter The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. [549 poems, from "A was an applie-pie" to "Oh, the brave old Duke of York"] PN 6110 C4 052

     

  • Rogal, Samuel J. The children's jubilee: a bibliographical survey of hymnals for infants, youth, and Sunday schools published in Britain and America, 1655-1900. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. Z 7800 R63

     

  • Sell, Violet, comp. Subject index to poetry for children and young people. American Library Association, 1982. 808.81016 S645S 1982 OISE

     

  • Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL). Ed. Douglas B. Killings. Berkeley, 1994-.

     

  • Temperley, Nicholas, assisted by Charles G. Manns and Joseph Herl. The hymn tune index: a census of English-language hymn tunes in printed sources from 1535 to 1820. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. ML 128 .H8T46 1998