Shasta College Library / English 1B
Locating Literature about Literature

 
The Shasta College Library offers a collection of  books, videos, online journals, and Internet sites.  Selecting from so many sources in such varied formats presents many challenges. This web page is a beginner's map to navigating the wealth of resources available on campus and from your home computer.  Please contact the library staff or your instructor for further assistance.
Carolyn Salus Singh,
Reference Librarian		 Kathryn Gessner
Instructor
Books and Videos in the Shasta College Library Collection
Books from the Shasta College Library's main collection are available for two week loan. Reserve books, reference books, and videocassettes must be used in the library. Library's web page

 
Favorite Poetry Reference Books
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature edited by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. [Reference PN41 .B4 1991]

Encyclopedia of American poetry. The Nineteenth Century, edited by Eric L. Haralson ; John Hollander, advisory editor [Reference PS316 .E63 1998]

The Poetry Dictionary by John Drury  [Reference PN1021 .D78 1995]

Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics ed. by Alex Preminger  [Reference PN1021 .E5 1974]
 

  •  Indexes and Criticism
Granger's Index to Poetry.  [Reference PN1022 .G72 1962]

Guide to American Poetry Explication by James Ruppert. 
[Reference PS201 .G854 1989]

Last lines : an index to the last lines of poetry by Victoria Kline. 
[Reference PN1022 .K55 1991]

Poetry for students by Marie Rose Napierkowski. [Reference PN1101 .P647]
Online Research Databases
Shasta College Library's ever growing collection of Online Research Databases contains full text articles from popular and academic journals and newspapers. For current book reviews, try any of the general interest databases: EBSCOHost; Proquest (Newspapers); General Reference Center Gold.  The following three databases are devoted entirely to literary biography and criticism. This resource provides access to brief biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers from every age and literary discipline. Writers are accessible by searching on their name or titles of their work.  This resource is also searchable by literary period, genre, and theme.
  This series contains nearly 1,600 biographical and critical essays on writers and literary genres.  Searchable by author’s name and keywords.
  This series offers book-length critical interpretations and discussions of 600 authors. In addition, it provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and the development of literary genres. Searchable by author’s name and keywords.
Internet Resources
Librarians' Index to the Internet is a classified list of hundreds of web sites. These sites have been previewed by librarians (and if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?) and are regularly updated.
Scroll down to Literature and click on more and then click on Poetry.  Interesting sites include:

Comprehensive Poetry Links  [http://www.js.spokane.wa.us/poetry/]
Browse authors by clicking on initial of last name.  Links to other sites on the Internet.

The Poetry Archives  [http://www.emule.com/poetry ]  contain over 3600 full-
text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from 140 poets, searchable byauthor, title, and first line. For a list of authors included in the database, click on Poet List.

Poets' Corner  [http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/index.html ]
Contains around 6,000 English-language poems, representing the work of almost 700 poets. The collection is indexed by author, title, and subject. Minimal biographical information included, but click on Faces of the Poets for links to portraits. 

Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920  [http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ ]
The Bartleby project has put online the complete text of ten poetry anthologies, each browsable by contents page and index, and searchable by keyword. Complete volumes of selected authors are also included. 

 
Citing Resources--Sample Citations

Book with one author
Jaffe, Andrew.  Jazz Harmony.  2nd. Ed.  New York: Advance Music, 1996.

Book with two authors
Kostka, Stefan M.  and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to 
     Twentieth Century Music.  New York: Knopf, 1984.

Edited book
Sullivan, Jack, ed. Words on Music: From Addison to Barzun. Athens: Ohio Univ. 
     Pr., 1990.

Signed journal or magazine article 
Blackett, Matt. "15 Days to Better Chops."  Guitar Player 33.4  (April 1999): 
     74-78.

Encyclopedia article
Henderson, Clayton H.  “Minstrelsy, American.”  The New Grove Dictionary of 
     Music and  Musicians.  Ed. By Stanley Sadie.  London: Macmillan, 1980.

Sound recording
Holiday, Billie.  The Essence of Billie Holiday. Rec. 23 Jan. 1943. Columbia, 1991.

Liner notes
Byron, Don. "Bug Music." Liner notes. Bug Music: Music Of The Raymond Scott 
     Quintette, John Kirby & His Orchestra, And The Duke Ellington Orchestra. 
     Elektra, 1996.

Videorecording
Bernstein, Leonard, perf. Musical Phonology. Videocassette. Dir. Clark Santee. 
     Kultur, 1973. (MLA) 104 min.

CD-ROM or software
Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles R. Cooper.  The St. Martin's Guide
     to Writing.  5th ed.  CD-ROM.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1997.

Article from an online encyclopedia
"Minstrel Show."  Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Shasta College Library. 16 Feb. 
     2001  <http://library.shastacollege.edu.databases.htm>.

Note: Do not split web address (url) between two lines.

Article from an online subscription service
Okker, Patricia and Jeffrey Williams."Reassuring Sounds: Minstrelsy and the Hidden
     Hand." ATQ 12 (2) Jun. 1998: 133-45. EbscoHost, Shasta College Library. 
     16 Feb. 2001  <http://library.shastacollege.edu/databases.htm>.

Torres, Hector Avalos. "Gary Soto." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 82, Chicano Writers.Gale Group, 
     1989. Literature Resource Center, Shasta College Library. 4 Apr. 2001 
      <http://library.shastacollege.edu/databases.htm>. 

Note: An article's url is an unwieldy string of letter and numbers. Use the url for the Shasta College Library’s Online Research Databases page, as that’s how your reader will most easily link to this database and article.

Scholarly project from the Internet 
Railton, Stephen, ed. Blackface Minstrelsy 1830-1852. 16 Sept. 1999. University of Virginia. 16 Feb. 2001 
<http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/mihp.html>.

Note: Unlike printed, published materials, websites often change and sometimes even disappear.  Include date of most recent revision (not always available) and the date you accessed the site.

Article from an online magazine
Sragow, Michael. "Black Like Spike." Salon 26 Oct. 2000. 16 Feb. 2001
     <www.salon.com>.

Note: Include both the date published and date you visited the site.

 
Questions? Comments? Do you have a music site to recommend? Let me know!
Carolyn Salus Singh
http://library.shastacollege.edu/literaturesourcespoetry.html updated 5/4/01

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