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Subject Guide: Literature

Poets

Database

Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

 

Website

 

Provides photographs and summary of well-known American poets.

 

 
Books

L. Frank Baum - Fiction & Poetry

Brontë Sisters - Fiction & Poetry

Lord George Byron - Poet

Geoffrey Chaucer - Poetry

John Dryden - Poet & Playwright

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Non-Fiction & Poetry

Thomas Hardy - Fiction & Poetry

Langston Hughes - Drama, Fiction, & Poetry

Video

Publication Date: 2003

Alice Walker and Arnold Rampersad discuss Langston Hughes with Bruce Schwartz about the experiences shaping Langston's youth, how he became a writer, the beauty and style of his writing, and the Harlem renaissance

Books

James Joyce - Fiction & Poetry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poet

Herman Melville - Fiction & Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe - Poetry

Ezra Pound - Poet

Video

Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2004

Follows Ezra Pound’s extraordinary course, from his collaborations with Yeats and Eliot through his years of detention at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

Books

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poet

Henry David Thoreau - Non-Fiction & Poetry

Alice Walker - Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry

Video

Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2004
Alice Walker discusses her short story, Everyday Use, with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White.

Edith Wharton - Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

Walt Whitman - Poetry

Oscar Wilde - Drama, Fiction, & Poetry

W. B. Yeats - Poetry

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poetry

Emily Dickinson - Poetry

John Donne - Poetry

T. S. Eliot - Poetry

George Herbert - Poetry

John Milton - Poetry

Christiana Rosetti - Poetry

Edmund Spenser - Poetry