Bartleby.com Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotations and English Usage
Blurbs of Wisdom Subject index at the Poetry Free-for-all--discussions of everything poetic, from abstractions, clichés, grammar, rhyme, and imagery to the art of critique and poetic forms
Book Recommendations (from my personal library): Most of the books listed can be purchased online at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble
Anthologies
- A Book of Luminous Things, Edited by Czeslaw Milosz (Harcourt Brace) - Comic Poems (Knopf) - The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fourth Edition (Norton) - The Oxford Book of American Verse, 1950 Edition (Oxford University Press) - The Penguin Book of Nonsense Verse, (Penguin) - Unleashed--Poems by Writer's Dogs, Edited by Hempel and Shepard (Three Rivers Press) - Very Bad Poetry, Edited by Kathryn Petra and Ross Petra (Vintage) - Yowl--Selected Poems About Cats, Edited by Ferris Cook (Bulfinch)
Poetry Handbooks/Essays
- Forgotten English--A Merry Guide to Antiquated Words, Jeffrey Kacirk (William Morrow) - The Making of a Poem--A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Strand and Boland (Norton) - The Poet's Companion, Addonizio and Laux (Norton) - A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver (Harcourt Brace) - A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie (Chicago Guides to Writing) - The Redress of Poetry, Seamus Heaney (Noonday) - Rules of the Dance, Mary Oliver (Mariner Books) - The Situation of Poetry--Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions, Robert Pinsky (Princeton) - Sound and Sense--An Introduction to Poetry, Ten Edition, Perrine (Harcourt) - The Sounds of Poetry--A Brief Guide, Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings, T. S. Eliot (University of Nebraska Press) - A Treatise on Poetry, Czeslaw Milosz (The Echo Press/Harper Collins) - Understanding Poetry, Brooks and Warren (Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich)
Poetry Collections
- E. E. Cummings--Selected Poems, Edited by Richard S. Kennedy (Liveright Publishing) - The World's Wife, Poems by Carol Ann Duffy (Faber and Faber) - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot (Harvest/HBJ) - T. S. Eliot--The Wasteland and Other Poems (Harvest Books) - Opened Ground--Selected Poems 1966-1996, Seamus Heaney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Philip Larkin--The Whitsun Weddings (Faber and Faber) - Poems, C. S. Lewis (Harcourt Brace) - Tramontana, Hugh McMillan (Dog & Bone) - Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970, Pablo Neruda (Grove Press) - Pablo Neruda--Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Penguin) - Ezra Pound--Selected Poems (New Directions) - Selected Poems of Anne Sexton (Mariner Books) - The Sonnets, William Shakespeare (Signet Classics) - Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (Harper & Row) - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Vintage Books/Random House) - Dylan Thomas--Collected Poems (New Directions) - Quite Early One Morning, Dylan Thomas (New Directions) - The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, Edited by Richard J. Finneran (Simon & Schuster)
