Search and read key poetry criticism and more in the library database Gale Literature.
In Print: You may also go to the print reference collection and search the purple Gale Literature Criticism book series:
Use the Author Index at the back of each volume to see criticism across volumes and series.
Search the Cumulative Title Index (separate, small, slick volume on the shelf) for a title to see all criticism within that particular series.
Use Keywords that represent what you want to find, such as:
Try Subject Terms, such as:
Use the Holman Library database Academic Search Complete to find reviews, interviews, and scholarly literary criticism.
Note: To find scholarship, limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals, though be aware not everything you find will be scholarship. Scholarly journals often contain book reviews and other writing that is not scholarship.
Find key scholarly criticism and a wealth of mainstream criticism in the multidisciplinary database ProQuest.
Use the Holman Library database JSTOR to search for literary criticism.
Note that in JSTOR you cannot limit a search to only scholarly journals, but much of the content is scholarly.
Limit your search to articles for criticism.
Limit to reviews for reviews of poetry collections.
You might also find poetry by your authors in JSTOR.
The journal The Explicator provides a good model for how to explicate, or do a close analytical reading of, a text. Find The Explicator with One Search or use the link below:
Project Muse is a partially open access humanities research resource. If you find a great article on your topic with this tool, you may request it through InterLibrary Loan if the full text is not available.
The links below go to some websites where you can read and/or listen to poetry.
The Poetry Foundation
The Library of Congress Poet Laureate
Did you know the library houses books, ebooks, and online content you can easily access? Use the link below to search for content. But first, be sure to look at the search strategies below.
Your poet's work may be included in an anthology.
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Gale Literature is one of the library's literary criticism databases
Other library databases may have full text or excerpts of works by your poets. Try the following sources linked below.
Can't find what you need? There may be an option to get it!
InterLibrary Loan (or ILL) is a service offered by Holman Library for borrowing books and articles from other libraries.
To request an item, use information you find in the tools below to fill out the Student Interlibrary Loan form. If you need help filling out this form, call the library reference desk at (253) 931-6480.
InterLibrary Loan requests are free to students, faculty and staff.