Print Resources

Background reading on the study of literary criticism

Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. Ref PR85 .E49 1991
Presents a range of views and ideas which prevail in literary studies.

Biographical Sources

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Series) Ref PN 451 .D57x

• American Poets, 1888-1945
  
• American Poets Since World War II
  
• British Poets, 1880-1914
  
• British Poets, 914-1945
  
• Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, 1945-1960
  
• Victorian Poets Before 1850
  
• Victorian Poets After 1850
  
• Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960
  
• British Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
  
• Eighteenth-Century British Poets

Essays and excerpts of criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC). Ref PN771 .C59
Excerpts of criticism of works by living poets and poets who died after 1959. 

Critical Survey of Poetry.

• English Language Series. Ref PR502 .C85 1982
• Foreign Language PN 41 .C7 1984
  Articles on poets and their works.

  The Critical Temper; a Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century. PR83 .764
  Attempts to present an overview of the best twentieth-century criticism on English and American literature. 

  The Explicator. Periodical collection
  Lists analysis in books, periodicals, poems and short stories by British and American authors. 

  Explicator Cyclopedia Ref PR401 .E9
  Vol. 1, modern poetry
  Vol. III, Prose
  A compilation of essays written by more than 200 scholars. 

  Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature. Ref PS221 .C8 1969
  Gives excerpts from critical material in journals and books on American authors from 1904 through 1967. 

  Library of Literary Criticism: Modern British Literature. Ref PR473 .T4
  Excerpts from criticism on over 400 British writers. 

  Literature Criticism from 1400-1800. Ref PN 86 .L53
  Provides an introduction to the great poets, dramatists, novelists, essayists, and philosopers. Excerpts from first-published criticism to current appraisals. 

  Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors Through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. . Ref PR83 M7.3
  Critical and bibliographic summaries. Covers all the major British and American writers. 

  Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism. Ref PN761 .N5
  Excerpts of criticism of poets who lived in the 19^th century.

  Shakespearean Criticism. Ref PR 2965 .S43
  Excerpts from the criticism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry.
  

Indexes to criticism

American and British Poetry - a Guide to the Criticism: 1925-1978.
Ref PS303 .A43

Articles on American Literature. Ref PS88 .Z9x L45


• Vol. 1: 1900-1950
• Vol. 2: 1950-1967
• Vol. 3: 1967-1975

  English Poetry, 1900-1950: A Guide to Information Sources. Ref PR 610 .2 Z9x A53
  Includes a guide to twenty-one modern British poets.

  Essay and General Literature. Index Tables & LAN
  Author and subject index to essays published in collections. Emphasis on materials in the humanities and social sciences.

  Guide to American Poetry Explication. Ref PS221 P7 R66
  

• Vol. 1: Colonial and Nineteenth-Century.
• Vol. 2: Modern and Contemporary.
  Lists extensive bibliographic sources for the explication of American Poetry.

  Guide to British Poetry Explication. Ref PR311 .M37
  

• Vol. 1, Old English, medieval
• Vol. 3, Restoration
• Vol. 4, Victorian - Contemporary
  Lists extensive bibliographic sources for the explication of British poetry.

  Humanities Index. Index Tables and Firstsearch (Humanities Abstracts)
  Author and subject entries to periodical literature. Includes citations to book reviews. Title was International Index, 1907-1964, and Social Science and Humanities Index, 1965-1973.

  Literary Criticism Index. Ref PN 523 .W45x 1994
  An aid in identifying sources of literary criticism.

  MLA Bibliography. Ref PN 41 .Z9x M6.3 and LAN
  The most comphrensive tool for locating literary criticism. Includes books and articles.

  Research Guide to Biography and Criticism.
  Ref PR 85 .Z9 R47 1986
  Descriptions and evaluations of the most important American, British, and Canadian writers. 

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