"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
T. S. Eliot, Dante 1920
T. S. Eliot, Dante 1920
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English 45 : Modern British Poetry (SC)
finding books:
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4. Finally, search by those subject headings.
Selected subject headings for this course include:
Eliot T S Thomas Stearns 1888 1965
Eliot T S Thomas Stearns 1888 1965 Criticism And Interpretation
Loy Mina Criticism And Interpretation
H D Hilda Doolittle 1886 1961 Criticism And Interpretation
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Yeats W B William Butler 1865 1939
Hardy Thomas 1840 1928 Criticism And Interpretation
Hopkins Gerard Manley 1844 1889 Criticism And Interpretation
1. Start with a KEYWORD search.
2. Look at relevant items.
3. Note the subject headings assigned to those items.
4. Finally, search by those subject headings.
4. Finally, search by those subject headings.
Selected subject headings for this course include:
Eliot T S Thomas Stearns 1888 1965
Eliot T S Thomas Stearns 1888 1965 Criticism And Interpretation
Loy Mina Criticism And Interpretation
H D Hilda Doolittle 1886 1961 Criticism And Interpretation
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Yeats W B William Butler 1865 1939
Hardy Thomas 1840 1928 Criticism And Interpretation
Hopkins Gerard Manley 1844 1889 Criticism And Interpretation
Once you identify books you would like to check out, write down - or text yourself - the book title, location, and call number of the book. Then use the call number to find the book in McCabe Library.
- A-G call numbers are on the lower level of the library
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If all copies of a book in Tripod are checked out, use E-Z Borrow to request the book from a partner library. These books are delivered in 2-7 days.
finding journal articles:
Literature resource center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Literature On-line (Chadwyck-Healey)
Provider: Chadwyck-Healey
A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose. Includes complementary references sources. Offers access to information on English and American literature including bibliographies, and catalogs. Also provides access to online editions of literary works, discussion lists, electronic journals, and library catalogs. Includes links to English poetry texts, drama, and fiction. Also offers links to editions of the works of William Shakespeare, to American poetry, editions of the Bible, and Webster's dictionary.
getting the articles you've found:
In MLA, and indeed most databases that don't have the full-text of the article, there is a 
icon next to each citation. Click on it to find out if the article is available in full-text online from the campus where you are doing your research, to search Tripod for the journal in print, or to request the item through interlibrary loan. If does not appear in your database, use Tripod to search for the journal title in your citation.
icon next to each citation. Click on it to find out if the article is available in full-text online from the campus where you are doing your research, to search Tripod for the journal in print, or to request the item through interlibrary loan. If does not appear in your database, use Tripod to search for the journal title in your citation.If the journal is in print or online at one of the other two schools, you can request that the journal or article be sent to you. If a journal in not in Tripod, you can request the article using ILL. In both cases, follow the directions on the EZ-Borrow/ILL page
reference sources:
We have a large number of subject encyclopedias on various topics. You may be able to get some good background information easily by consulting them. Since your topics are so diverse, I've only included a few sample titles here. To look for reference titles on your own, do an Advanced Search in Tripod and limit your search to SC Reference Collections.
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism
A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.
The Literary Theory portion of this site is especially useful for anyone looking for primary materials regarding the theoretical debates surrounding literature. It offers readings from Aristotle to Saussure, Lyotard to Derrida and Paul De Man, I. A. Richards to Harold Bloom.
The Oxford companion to English literature
The Companion concentrates on British authors, works, and literary forms, but includes many non-Briitsh historical figures and topics because of their significance to British literary culture.
a sampling of selected author web sites:
This section is not meant to be a comprehensive guide, but rather attempts to provide a sample of additional resources pertaining to poets we have read in class, whether they be further materials on an author we've read at length, like T.S. Eliot, or preliminary materials for an author we were unable to allot much time, such as Rudyard Kipling, Mina Loy, and A.E. Housman. Check out www.poets.org for audio clips, biographies, selected poems, and related prose on these and many other authors.
On T.S. Eliot:
T.S. Eliot, Biography and Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
In 1948, Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here, the Nobel Foundation has a transcript of his banquet acceptance speech.
The Multimedia Companion to T.S. Eliot
This exquisite page, created and maintained by the University of Illinois, offers a biography of T.S. Eliot, general statements on the poet's "ritualism" and use of philosophy, criticisms of The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", "The Journey of the Magi", "Burnt Norton", and others, as well as the text of Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and resources on World War I, including a photo essay.
The Poets.org Page on T.S. Eliot
Click here for a brief biography of T.S. Eliot, selected poetry and prose, and audio clips featuring the poet's own voice. Be sure to check out the "related prose" link on the left side, which offers "A Brief Guide to Modernism" and "Groundbreaking Book: Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot".
T.S. Eliot: Voices and Visions
This is a YouTube clip from Eliot's biography, T.S. Eliot: Voices and Visions.
Home of the T.S. Eliot Society
The Little Gidding Festival, the T.S. Eliot Summer School, and an Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
On Hilda Doolittle:
Hilda Doolittle
This site offers biography, bibliography, and full-text of Modernist HD.
The Poets.org Page on H.D.
Features biography, selected poems, audio clips, and related prose.
The Multimedia Guide to HD
The Modern American Poetry Anthology operates this definitive page on H.D. through the University of Illinois, which features a biographical essay, critical writings on classical myth, Trilogy Part I, "The Helmsman", "Oread", H.D.'s relation to Freud, and others.
On William Butler Yeats:
National Library of Ireland's Yeats Exhibition
A beautiful online exhibition of "The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats.
Yeats's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Yeats won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, you will find a biography, Nobel lecture on Irish Dramatic Movement, documentary, and banquet speech.
Yeats on Poets.org
Biography, selected poems, audio clips, and related prose of W. B. Yeats.
A 1938 Article from The Atlantic on W. B. Yeats
Louise Bogan commemorates the 73 year old poet.
The Yeats Theater
A gorgeous online Yeats exhibit.
Ezra Pound
The biography, bibliography, and select poems of Imagist Ezra Pound.
Mina Loy
The biography and poetry of Modernist Mina Loy.
Other British Poets in our Norton Anthology:
A.E. Housman
Biographical materials and select poems by A.E. Housman.
Rudyard Kipling, Biography and Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
In 1907, Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here, the Nobel Foundation offers a biography and transcript of his banquet acceptance speech.
The Complete Poems of Rudyard Kipling
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