Resource Guide:
Postwar American Poets
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Ashbery, John
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977
- Gluck, Louise
- Graham, Jorie
- Pinsky, Robert
- American Poetry
- American literature -- 20th century
- American Poetry -- History and Criticism
- American Poetry -- 20th Century
- Postmodernism
- Confessional Poetry
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- American Literary History
- American Literature
- The American Scholar
- The Kenyon Review
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry | PS 3523 .O89 Z856 1983 |
| The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H.D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Glück | PS 151 .D63 1992 |
| Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950 | PS 323.5 .H6 |
| Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry | PS 325 .A38 1984 |
| How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry | PS 310 .V57 S67 2005 |
| The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics | PS 325 .V46 1988 |
| The Confessional Poets | PS 323.5 .P5 1973 |
| The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation | eBook 2015 |
| Rebound: The American Poetry Book | eBook 2004 |
| The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult Time | eBook 2013 |
| The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry | eBook 2003 |