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ENG 265: Modern American Poetry, Prof. Venkateswaran: Articles and Databases
Literature Databases
TOP CHOICES FOR ARTICLES : CRICTICAL ANALYSIS AND AUTHOR INFORMATION
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- Bloom's Literary Reference This link opens in a new windowHundreds of Harold Bloom’s essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom’s Literary Criticism imprint.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new windowDictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Representative Articles
These articles reflect the poets and readings in the course. Click on the link to access the full text.
To search for more articles, use one of the databases listed on the left. Search by author as subject or title of work.
- ModernismEncyclopedia of American Literature: Into the Modern: 1896–1945, Revised Edition, vol. 3
- Modernism Comes to American Poetry: 1908–1920Roger Mitchell
From: American Modernist Poets, Bloom's Modern Critical Views. - The Visionary Walt WhitmanDavid Lehman, American Poetry Review
January-February 2008 - 'To Make a Poet Black': Constructing an Ethnic Poetics in Harlem Renaissance PoetryDiscussion of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
Keith D. Leonard
Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. p81-117.
Source:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 218. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center. - Literacy and Authenticity: The Blues Poems of Langston HughesDavid Chinitz
Publication Details: Callaloo 19.1 (Winter 1996): p177-192.
Source:Poetry Criticism. Ed. Timothy J. Sisler. Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale, 2004. From Literature Resource Center. - Allen Ginsberg: The Origins of 'Howl' and 'Kaddish.'James Breslin
Publication Details: The Iowa Review 8.2 (Spring 1977): p82-108.
Source:Poetry Criticism. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 47. Detroit: Gale, 2003. From Literature Resource Center. - Emily Dickinson Was a PoetessDiscusses Emily Dickinson's feminism.
Elsa Greene
Publication Details: College English 34.1 (Oct. 1972): p63-70.
Source:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 171. Detroit: Gale, 2006. From Literature Resource Center. - "Tradition and the Indvidual Talent"Russell Elliot Murphy
"'Tradition and the Individual Talent'." Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work, Critical Companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. Bloom's Literature. Facts On File. - Auden: Exile and CommunityKathleen Bell
Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture. Ed. Sharon Ouditt. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. p115-127.
Source:Poetry Criticism. Vol. 92. Detroit: Gale. - Modernism and British PoetryThe Facts On File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to Present.
- Countee Cullen’s Genteel ScreamAlan R. Shucard.
Twayne's United States Authors Series 470. Boston: Twayne, 1984. p102-122. COPYRIGHT 1984 Twayne Publishers, COPYRIGHT 2010 Gale, Cengage Learning - Introduction: Literary Theory IssueHouston A. Baker, Jr.
Challenges the concept of literature as taught and speaks to inclusion based on changes in society during the '60s and early '70s.
Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 3-4 - Making it Really New: Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Feminist Potential of Modern PoetryGertrude Reif Hughes
American Quarterly; September 1990, Vol. 42, p375-401, 27p
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