Criticism - ENG 251, 351 | Poetry - LibGuides at Lebanon Valley College

Where Should I Begin?

Sources listed on this page will provide you with different types of information--but they'll all focus (for the most part) on criticism.

Image source: Edmund S. Valtman. Samuel Beckett caricature. Public Domain. Library of Congress.

Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text. Covers novelists, poets, playwrights who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Criticism is taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Searches Contemporary Literary Criticism and Short Story Criticism.
Full-text access to Contemporary Literary Criticism and Short Story Criticism.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Essential index for the study and teaching of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, writing studies, folklore, film, and theater. Covers journal articles, book chapters.

REF books are located on the main level.

Critical Survey of Poetry
Call Number: REF PN1021 .C7 2003 v. 1-8
ISBN: 1587650711
Each signed (3 to 10 page) essay begins with a list of principal poetry and an overview of the poet's life and works and concludes with an annotated bibliography; authoritative, informative analyses of specific anthologies and poems form the heart of the essays.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1579582400
Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.