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

Where Should I Begin?

Dictionary of Literary Biography may provide substantial biographical information on your poet; a link below will lead you to this.

Find book-length biographies easily in the Bishop Library's Catalog search or in WorldCat, a database of books found in worldwide libraries.

Image source: George C Cox. 1887. Walt Whitman. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons.

Biography Index Past and Present This link opens in a new window
Biography Index searches over 3,000 periodicals and 2,000 books for biographical articles. Besides biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, and memoirs.
Besides biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, and memoirs.

Find biographical books owned by LVC Library. Input your person as last name, first name.

Located in Bishop Library.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Nice source for biographical information on poets. LVC owns 26 DLB volumes on poets. Link takes you to LVC catalog; Run a WORDS OR PHRASE search of Dictionary of Literary Biography AND Robert Frost (your author's name).
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry
Call Number: REF PS 303 .G74 2006 v. 1-5
ISBN: 031332381X
Covers poetry from the colonial era to the present, devoting special attention to contemporary poets and their works.