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Poetry

Frankovich, Nicholas, ed. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works. Columbia University Press, 1996. A companion to the Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry; provides access to more than 50,000 poems that appear in the collected and selected works of 251 major poets.

Hazen, Edith, ed. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. Columbia University Press, 1994. Massive reference to title, author, first line, and subject; index includes anthologies published through June 30, 1993.

Hirschfield, Jane. The Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry: Essays. HarperCollins, 1997. A poet discusses the mind and craft of poetry.

Hollander, John. Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse. Yale University Press, 1989. Brief study of English versification.

Pinsky, Robert. The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. A poet laureate of the United States interprets master works by focusing on the sound of language.

Preminger, Alex, and T. V. F. Brogan, eds. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press, 1993. Standard reference on history, theory, technique, and criticism.

Rukeyser, Muriel. The Life of Poetry. Paris Press, 1996. A tribute to the spiritual and intellectual value of poetry.

Vendler, Helen Hennessy. Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology. St. Martin's, 1996. A 20th-century critic introduces the subject of poetry through representative voices and poems.

Washburn, Katharine, and John Major, eds. World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. Norton, 1998. Comprehensive anthology covering a broad range of times, places, and languages; for general audiences.

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