Guide to Modern and Contemporary Poetry university of chicago library
Contact: David Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern and Contemporary Poetry | pavelich [@] uchicago.edu
Full Text Resources | Archives & Manuscripts | Spoken word: poetry recordings, interviews | Video Recordings | Internet Resources | Encyclopedias | Biographies | Dissertations |
For a comprehensive listing of our resources in English literature, consult our Electronic Full Text Sources in English.
Full text articles, criticism, and reviews
JSTOR: JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
ProjectMUSE: Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. It offers a selection of humanities, arts, and social sciences, and each journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many university presses and scholarly societies.
Literature Online (LION): Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, over 200 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Full text poetry resources
American Poetry Full-Text Database (pre-1900): Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
American Verse Project(University of Michigan): A collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. Provides access to an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
Canadian Poetry: As part of LION (Literature Online), Canadian Poetry is a full text database created by Chadwyck-Healey in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries. Contains over 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman. The project is ongoing, but once completed will offer a survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth Century.
English Poetry, Second Edition: English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Faber Poetry Library: A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry: A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the last century. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Twentieth-Century American Poetry: This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Twentieth-Century English Poetry: A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
W. B. Yeats Collection: The entire text of each work has been included. Any accompanying text written by the author and forming an integral part of the work has been keyed. Indexes and titles and first lines have been excluded. Any images appearing in the text have been included. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/MacMillan Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, General Editors) have been used in The W.B. Yeats Collection. For works excluded from or not yet published in the Collected Edition, the best available text has been used, including other scholarly editions, such as The Speckled Bird (William H. O'Donnell, editor), as well as texts prepared after Yeats's death with the assistance of his widow, George Yeats. The contents of the database may also be accessed through LION. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
The Internet Poetry Archive (University of North Carolina): Poetry by and bio-bibliographical information on featured poets: Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
The University of Chicago Library Catalog:
To expand a search beyond a known author or titles, seach by Subject Alphabetical or by Subject Keyword. For example, search under the subject heading "American poetry--20th century" or and its sub-headings, such as "American poetry--20th century--Bibliography". Examples of subjects:
American poetry -- 20th -- Bibliography
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
American poetry -- Women authors -- Bibliography
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
WorldCat: Now including the records from the RLG Union Catalog, contains over 62 million records for books and other materials in over 10,000 libraries worldwide. Updated daily. Searchable in a variety of ways. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
INDEXING & ABSTRACTING SERVICES
For a more comprehensive list of electronic indexing and abstracting services for English and American literature, consult Modern Literatures' Abstracting and Indexing Services page.
American Humanities Index. Contains bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Covers over 700 journals published from 1975 to the present, many of which cannot be found in other reference works (so-called "little" magazines). Provides information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Click on "EBSCOhost Databases Available," select "American Humanities Index," and click on "Continue." The print is available at Z5937.A85 Reading Room, Floor 1.
Annual Bibliography
of English Language and Literature (ABELL). Vol. 4 (1923)-
London : Modern Humanities Research Association, 1924- International,
classified bibliogrphy for literatures in English. Includes books, portions
of books, articles, dissertations, and book reviews.
Z2015.M7 Reading Room, Floor 3
Arts and Humanities
Citation Index. Philadelphia, 1976 to date. 3/yr. with annual
cumulation. In 3 parts: I, an author list of recent articles and book
reviews; II, Permuterm Index to names and other words appearing in the
titles of the articles cited in Part I; III, a Citation Index listing
of all works cited in the footnotes and bibliographies of the articles
and reviews in Part I (the "Source Index"). The Citation Index notes references
to novels, poems, plays, paintings, films, operas, musical compositions,
etc., as well as to scholarly books and articles. Available in print at
Z5937.A85 Reading Room, Floor 1; or search the Web of Science,
which includes the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences
Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index. Coverage begins with 1975.
(Access is restricted to UofC users.)
MLA
International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages
and Literatures. 1921 to date. (Annual) This is the most thorough
single listing of research on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore,
covering articles in some 4,000 journals and in certain books. It does
not list book reviews, or chapters in books. It is available in paper
from 1921-1993 at Z7006.M67 Regenstein Stacks. Updated ten times per year.
PCI Full Text: Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 to 1995, and includes selected full-text titles. Dates of full-text coverage vary by title.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Retrospective: The Readers' Guide Retrospective provides indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and includes some peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Covers the Arts and Humanities and includes titles such as Poetry Magazine, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, New York Review of Books, the Edinburgh Review, and countless other, as well as scholarly journals such as Modern Philology and PMLA , in addition to popular magazines such as Time and Newsweek. Permitts insight into the cultural history of 20th century America. Overall coverage: 1890-1982; individual titles vary; contains some full text.
Special Collections Research Center
- Visit the Special Collections Research Center subject guides for selected poetry resources.
Information on Archives and Repositories:
- ArchivesUSA: Provides access to holdings and contact information for more than 4,800 repositories and indexes to over 109,000 special collections. Includes information from the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
- Archival Resources: The collection record file contains appproximately 500,000 bibliographic records for archival collections, and the collection guide file contains a growing number of searchable finding aids that provide a detailed inventory of the collection including the source, arrangement, and contents. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
- Repositories of Primary Sources: A listing of over 3,400 web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources. The site includes links for Europe and a useful "Additional Links" page at: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/other.html. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
SPOKEN WORD: POETRY RECORDINGS, INTERVIEWS
The Library holds a large collection of spoken word recordings on CDs, cassette tapes, and LP records. The bulk of the collection consists of poets reading their own works in either studio recording sessions or live performances. Also included are interviews and, for some early 20th Century poets, readings of their poetry by famous contemporary literary figures, mostly poets. The collection is housed at the Music circulation module in Reading Room, Floor 3. Recordings may be checked for 4 hours at a time or longer with special permission. Listening rooms are located in Reading Room, Floor 3 and head phones may be requested at the Music circulation desk.
The holdings include major poetry collections and series, such as the Caedmon Poetry Collection and the Academy of American Poets Audiotape Archive; as well as the Random House Voice of the Poet series, and others. All recordings are cataloged and available through the Library Catalog and may be best searched via the "advanced search" feature and limited to "Nonmusical sound recordings".
Online poetry recordings:
Academy of American Poets Listening Booth: http://www.poets.org/booth/booth.cfm
Extensive links to streaming audio of countless poets, including John
Ashbery, W. H. Auden, W. S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, Langston
Hughes, and many well known and lesser known American poets.
Audio Interviews from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/professions/poets.shtml
Recordings by Yeats, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Seamus
Heaney, Robert Graves, Maya Angelou, E.E. Cummings, W. H. Auden, and more.
The BBC's Poetry Out Loud: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml
This second site by the BBC contains numerous audio recordings of poets
performing their own work. Included are Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Derek
Walcott, Ogden Nash, Seamus Heaney, and more. The site distinguishes itself
from the Audio Interviews by focusing on poetry and poets reading their
works rather than interviews. It also contains numerous further poetry
links.
EPC Sound & Radio Arts: http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/
A collection of sound poetry, audio art, audio hypermedia, and arts radio
broadcasts.
Internet Poetry Archive: http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
Links to streaming audio of select poems by featured poets: Phillip Levine,
Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret
Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
The Lannan Foundation: http://www.lannan.org/
The audio archives contain over 65 audio recordings of writers who participated
in the Reading & Conversations series sponsored by the Foundation.
The recordings include interviews with such authors, critics, and poets
as Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Mark Strand, Eduardo Galeano, and Billy
Collins.
Pennsound: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
An audio and video archive at the University of Pennsylvania providing
access to the readings of countless poets and authors. Includes a link
to the Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference, held at UPenn in Sept. 2004.
The Slought Foundation's recordings of the The 1963 Vancouver Poetry
Conference: http://slought.net/toc/Vancouver1963/
The link provides access to 54 hours of recordings of New American poets
including Ginsberg, Duncan, Olson, Creeley, Levertov & Avison, and
more. Further recordings, such as Charles Olson reading and lecturing
at Goddard College, 1962, are available through the archives
under "recordings".
VIDEO RECORDINGS
The Library holds numerous videos of poets reading their own works. The holdings include the complete Lannan Video Library series and numerous recordings of the American Poetry Archive of the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.
All video materials are cataloged and available through the Library Catalog and may be best searched via the "advanced search" feature and limited to "Videos, DVDs, films, slides, etc." Videos may be checked out, renewed, and returned, following the same guidelines as for books. To check out a video, first retrieve the empty box from the video collection in Reading Room, Floor 3 (on the East side of the building, next to Microforms) and present the box at the Circulation Desk at the entrance of the Library, where you will receive the actual tape or DVD.
Online video recordings:
Poem Present: http://poempresent.uchicago.edu/
The University of Chicago's Poem Present readings and lectures are available
online from 2003 on. Poets who have come to the University to read include
Allen Grossman, Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Robert Creeley, Lisa Jarnot, Mark
Strand, and many more.
Poets On Screen (LION):
http://lion.chadwyck.com
Part of the larger literature database, LION,
Poets on Screen contains 269 clips of poets reading their own and other
poets' work. This large and growing database features poets Fleur Adcock,
Sujata Bhatt, Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, Jayne Cortez, Imtiaz Dharker,
James Fenton, Selima Hill, P. J. Kavanagh, Roger McGough, Blake Morrison,
Les Murray, and Jerome Rothenberg reading their own work, as well as poets
such as Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Richard Wilbur, and more, reading
other poets' work (poems by Emily Dickinson, Yeats, and others).
Pennsound: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
An audio and video archive at the University of Pennsylvania providing
access to the readings of countless poets and authors. Includes a link
to the Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference, held at UPenn in Sept. 2004.
Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/
The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American
poets and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The largest
organization in the country dedicated to the art of poetry, the Academy
sponsors programs nationally. The site provides bio- and bibliographical
information, features poems and interviews, as well as poets reading their
works and numerous helpful links to journals, societies, and other poetry
web sites.
American Poetry Review: http://www.aprweb.org/
Browse the contents or read select articles and poetry online. The print
is available at PS580.A44 Regenstein Current Periodicals and Stacks or
via Academic
Search Premier (EBSCO).
The Atlantic Montly Poetry Pages:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/
The site contains poetry, critical appraisals of poets and their work,
interviews with contemporary poets as well as audio readings of poems
that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, including works by John Crowe Ransom,
Maxine Kumin, Frank Bidard, Peter Davison, and Robert Pinsky. The site
also features historic articles from the more distant past with poems
by Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Greenleaf Whittier which appeared in The
Atlantic Monthly's first issue.
Canadian Poetry: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/
A comprehensive resource on Canadian Poetry from the University of Toronto
Library. Inludes bio-bibliographical information, poetry, links to magazines,
publishers, and organizations, as well as events, prizes, etc.
Eclipse: http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse/
Provides full text access to texts by contemporary poets; works by Clark
Coolidge, Rae Armantrout, David Melnick, Bruce Andrews, among many others.
The site also provides full text access to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, edited
by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, issues 1-13 + supplements; and
to LEGEND, published by Andrews, Bernstein, DiPalma, McCaffery, and Silliman.
Click here
for the index. Additional articles by Bruce Andrews, Ron Silliman, Frank
O'Hara, and other poets are available at http://www.ubu.com/.
Electronic Poetry Center: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
Home of the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo. The site provides
online poetry, bio-bibliographic information on poets, extensive links
to publishers, organizations, and resources. SUNY Buffalo is a center
of modern poetry in the US and their Poetry/Rare
Books Collection has some of the country's most extensive holdings
of twentieth-century poetry books and manuscripts.
e-poets.network: http://www.e-poets.net/
Featuring contemporary poets and with an emphasis on experimental poetry,
e-poets.net provides introductions to poets and their work, with links
to audio and video recordings, in addition to a discussion list, articles,
and links to further resources.
Exploring The Waste Land: http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html
A learning resource allowing exploration of T.S. Eliot's poem "The
Waste Land." Part of the site uses a framed presentation of the poem
with hyperlinked notes, definitions, translations, cross references, texts
of works alluded to, commentary, and questions to the reader. Another
part of the site is unframed and describes how to use the site, has pages
of links to other sites, contains a bibliography, holds essays and supplementary
material, gives theme paper help and so on.
Favorite Poem Project: http://www.favoritepoem.org/
Founded in 1997 by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United
States, the Favorite Poem Project contains videos of Americans reading
their favorite poems.
Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature: http://www.csu.edu/GwendolynBrooks/
Includes information on the Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Conference,
the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and Poetry Award, and numerous other Chicago
and poetry links.
Internet Poetry Archive: http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina
Arts Council, the Internet Poetry Archive provides bio-bibliographic information,
as well as poems and recordings for a select number of poets: Phillip
Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa,
Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
Little Magazines and Modernism: http://www.davidson.edu/academic/english/Little_Magazines/index.html
A site covering Modernist little magazines, linking three contemporaneous
traditions that are usually studied as separate and distinct: Anglo-American
modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and political poetry from the 1920s
and '30s. The website was written and designed by students participating
in the seminar, "On Lines: The Web of Modernism" (ENG 487, Fall
99) in consultation with Suzanne W. Churchill, Assistant Professor of
English, Davidson College. Includes a description of Poetry, The
Dial, The Egoist, Contact, Crisis, The Little
Review, Anvil, and more.
Modern American Poetry: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm
Created by the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Modern American Poetry provides select poems of 161 poets, extracted from
the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
Octopus Magazine: http://www.octopusmagazine.com/
"Octopus is an online poetry magazine named after a sea creature
that is intelligent, lives in dens, and uses ink as a defense mechanism.
Every issue features a combination of 8."
The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives: http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/
The center does not provide information for research or access to poetry,
but informs of the activities of the center, including prizes and publications.
It is listed here as the archive is one of the richest sources for audio
and video recordings and the Library has purchased many copies of both
for its Spoken Word and Video collections.
Poetry Center of Chicago: http://www.poetrycenter.org/
Explore and attend poetry readings and events in Chicago. The papers of
The Poetry Center of Chicago and a complete set of the broadsides collection
are on deposit with the University of Chicago Library.
Poetry Daily: http://www.poems.com
Following the web site, the world's most popular poetry site. Features
a different poet every day and generally includes critical comments on
the poet.
The Poetry House at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland: http://www.thepoetryhouse.org/
Features an online magazine of poetry features and reviews; designed to
be an authoritative guide to information about poetry across the English-speaking
world. Its coverage is both historical (from Old English to the present)
and geographical, taking in the world's major English-speaking areas.
Poetry Magazine: http://www.poetrymagazine.org/
Web site of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, founded in 1912 in Chicago
by Harriet Monroe. Consult the print at PR500.P7 in Current Periodicals,
Regenstein Stacks, and the Special Collections Research Center or the
full text online via Academic
Search Premier (EBSCO). The web site of Poetry contains select full
text and a historical
index, among other.
Poetry on the Internet (Humbul Humanities Hub): http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/poetry.html
Maintained at Oxford University, the Humbul
Humanities Hub aims at selecting and organizing valuable web resources
in all areas of the Humanities. This guide to poetry on the Internet provides
comprehensive access to online poetry resources, including Anthologies
and Collections; Individual Author Sites; General Critical Sites; Online
Journals; and Poetics and Language. Although not restricted to modern
poetry, the guide is highly recommended.
Poetry Portal: http://www.poetry-portal.com/
A commercial, yet useful portal to all things related to poetry on the
web. Listed here as it contains numerous helpful sections on criticism,
a glossary, and a wealth of information going beyond modern poetry or
poetry in English.
The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church: http://www.poetryproject.com/poets&poems/prevpoet.html
Provides select poetry of poets through its webzine Poets & Poems;
announcements and information on the center's three weekly reading series;
writing workshops; access to the newsletter and the annual literary magazine,
The World. Also features the "Tiny Press Center", a resource
center for publishers, including essays by small publishers, reviews,
and excerpts from publications, as well as links to other poetry sites.
Poetry Society of America, Links: http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-links.html
The Poetry Society of America is the parent organization of the Favorite
Poem Project (see above) and provides information about membership, poetry
readings and events, the chapbook contest, and various other services.
Its list of links is one of the most comprehensive collection of poetry
resources on the web.
Representative Poetry Online: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm
This online edition of W. J. Alexander edition of Representative Poetry,
published by the University of Toronto Press in 1912, includes about 2,900
English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period,
to the work of living poets. Though most of the poetry is by pre-20th
Century authors, Representative Poetry Online is a helpful resource for
finding poetry by early 20th Century poets online. Includes a timeline,
links to criticism, a glossary, and a highly useful bibliography.
Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry: http://www.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/
The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive was founded in 1979 with the mission
to "establish a collection of books, critical texts, periodicals,
ephemera, prints, drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, objects,
manuscripts, and correspondence dealing with precedent and contemporary,
internationally produced, concrete and visual poetry." Starting with
Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem, “Un Coup de Des”
(Cosmopolis, 1897) the archive covers historic examples of "works
with concrete/visual poetic sensibilities from such twentieth century
art movements as Italian Futurism, Russian and Eastern European Avant
Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Ultra, Tabu-Dada, Lettrisme,
and Ultra-Lettrisme."
UbuWeb: http://www.ubu.com/
Difficult to define, UbuWeb may be described as an online archive of literature and art. Includes numerous poems(including concrete and sound poetry), essays, and other texts, as well as sound recordings and more.
Verse at Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
The "Verse" section at Bartleby.com provides access to the full
text of numerous anthologies and collections of poetry, from Virgil to
Milton, to Eliot to Frost.
Web del sol: http://www.webdelsol.com/
A commercial portal to poetry on the web, web del sol provides extensive
poetry resources, such as links to major online poetry journals, electronic
chapbooks, criticism and book reviews, poetry work shops and writing programs,
links, and more.
Yahoo directory of online poetry magazines: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/Magazines/
A surprisingly comprehensive list of online poetry magazines; to be consulted
with the list of the Academy of American Poets at http://www.poets.org/links/journals.cfm
and the links of the Poetry Society of America at http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-links.html.
BIOGRAPHIES
General (representative titles)
African American Biographical Database. Chadwyck-Healey. Based on Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and available on the campus network (http://aabd.chadwyck.com/). (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
American Biographical Archive, plus Series II. New York, 1989-1996.
A microfiche compilation of biographical sketches on individuals in 494
biographical dictionaries published 1702- ca. 1980. Included are biographies
of 280,000 Americans.
microfc CT211.A45 1986 Reading Room, Floor 1 and CT211.A437 1993 Reading
Room, Floor 1
Index at CT211.A45 1986 Index Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: World
Biographical Index is available on the campus network. (Access
is restricted to UofC users.)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research
Co., c1980-. A consolidated index to biographical sketches in current
and retrospective biographical dictionaries.
Z5305.U5B62 Reading Room, Floor 1, Exp
Note: The Biography
and Genealogy Master Index (1980-) is available on the campus
network. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Bea, Joseph, ed. Biography Index. New York: H. W. Wilson Co.,
1946-. A cumulative and comprehensive index to biographical material published
in books and magazines. International in scope, though only containing
English language materials, the index is published quarterly with annual
and biannual cumulations. Includes index by profession.
Z5301.B6 Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: Biography
Index (1984-) is available on the campus network. (Access
is restricted to UofC users.)
British Biographical Archive, plus Series II. London, 1984-1994.
A microfiche compilation of biographical sketches on individuals in over
six hundred British biographical dictionaries published from 1601 to the
mid-20th century.
microfc CT773.B75 1984 and 1991 Reading Room, Floor 1
Index at CT773.B75 1990 Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: World Biographical Index
is available on the campus network. (Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Dictionary of American Biography. New York, 1928-37. 21 volumes,
plus supplements. -- Published under the auspices of the American Council
of Learned Societies. Lengthy, signed biographical articles, with bibliographies.
Original set included biographies of 14,000 noted Americans
E176.D57 Reading Room, Floor 1, Reading Room, Floor 3, Harp
Note: A CD-ROM version of the DAB is available at the circulation
desk on the first floor of Regenstein (CDRomE176.D5642).
Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian
Harrison, Oxford University Press, 2004. 60 vols. Coverage extends from
the earliest times to 2000. The most authoritative reference source for
English biography; contains signed articles by specialists.
DA28.O95 2004 Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: The Dictionary
of National Biography is available on the campus network.
A CD-ROM version of the 1995 edition of the DNB is also available at the
circulation desk on the first floor of Regenstein (CDRomDA28.D58 1995).
(Access is restricted to UofC users.)
Garraty, John A. and Carnes, Mark C., eds. American National Biography.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
E176.D58 1999 Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: The American National
Biography is available on the campus network. Provides biographical
information on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American
history and culture. Contains over 18,000 profiles. (Access is restricted
to UofC users.)
Literary
Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers.
Detroit, 1962 to date. Covers writers of books only, chiefly English-language
authors. Not limited to literary figures. Sketches give personal facts,
career, work in progress, bibliography of writings, and biographical sources.
Related titles include the First Revision, the New Revision, and the Permanent
Revision series which include revised and updated biographies. The Cumulative
Index covers all series.
PN451.C76 and .C764 Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: Contemporary
Authors is available on the campus network. (Access is restricted
to UofC users.)
Contemporary Poets. 7th ed. New York, 2001
PR603.C6 2001 Reading Room, Floor 3
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, 1978-
-- Lengthy illustrated biographical and critical articles, with bibliographies.
Each volume focuses on a specific time period and country (mostly the
US and Britain) and includes a cumulative index. Numerous volumes on British
and American poets, playwrights, novelists, etc.
PS128.D55 Regenstein Stacks (building use only) and Yearbooks PS128.D56
Reading Room, Floor 3
Note: To find a volume by title, authors, subject, or keyword (such
as "Beats"), consult the following online guide: http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/libguide/dlb/
Haralson, Eric L., ed. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 19th Century.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Pubs, 1998. Provides biographical information
concerning more than 100 poets, gives critical evaluations of their works,
and places them in their literary, historical, and cultural context. Each
entry ends with a selected list of the poet's works and a bibliography
of secondary publications. (Choice, December 1998)
PS316 .E53 1998 Reading Room, Floor 3
______. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century. Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn Pubs, 2001. (See above.)
PS323.5 .E53 2001 Reading Room, Floor 3
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton,
1993. The standard, authoritative encyclopedia on the subject with surveys
of 106 national poetries, descriptions of forms, genres, and devices,
movements and issues in criticism and theory, etc.
PN1021.N390 1993 Reading Room, Floor 1, Reading Room, Floor 3
Spender, Stephen, and Donald Hall. The Concise Encyclopedia of English
and American Poets and Poetry. 2nd ed. (revised in new format). London:
Hutchinson, 1970. Encyclopedia edited by British poet, critic and novelist
Stephen Spender. Includes a bibliography of works and critical material,
as well as biographical information on major poets and general articles
on various aspects of poetry.
PR19.S601 Regenstein Stacks
DISSERTATIONS
ProQuest Digital Dissertations (access restricted to the University of Chicago from this site). Indexes North American dissertations and some European ones, 1861- to date. After 1980 database contains abstracts in addition to bibliographic information. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Full text is available for downloading from 1997 forward. For texts of earlier abstracts, consult Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, 1938--). Title varies; coverage varies. Compilation of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to University Microfilms by cooperating universities. Dissertations may be purchased in various formats. Varying forms of indexing. Related indexes for retrospective dissertations and dissertations not filmed.
Z5055.U49M6 Reading Room, Floor 1
Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the universities
of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards.
1950/51- (title varies).
Z5055.G59I4 Reading Room, Floor 1
Note: The online version of the Index covers theses done since
1970 from over 150 colleges and universities and can be searched by author,
title, abstract, date, and university.
Campus Resources
Program in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Chicago | Poem Present | Creative Writing | Chicago Review | Euphony
