Contemporary Poets Provides biographical and bibliographical information about poets currently or recently writing in the English language. Each entry includes a single critical essay characterizing the poet s body of work, plus a list of the poet s publications and a list of critical studies of the poetry, which may be particularly useful as many of the poets included are not widely known. Critical Survey of Poetry Arranged by poet, this source provides critical essays, with brief biographies, of poets and poetry from Beowulf to the present. Each entry includes principal poetry, other literary forms, achievements, biography, analysis, other major works and a bibliography. Volume 8 includes essays dealing with literary eras, poetry types, poetical terms, etc.
Arrangement is alphabetical by title of poem.
Each entry contains a review of the poem, forms and devices, and themes and meanings. Poetry for Students Provides in-depth studies of individual poems. Each entry focuses on a single poem and gives an overview and a summary of the poem, as well as its complete text, major themes, style, historical context, and a detailed critical essay, plus a brief biography of the poet. Cumulative index in each volume. The Gale series of literary criticism.