The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry

Looking for a poem but aren’t sure where it was published?  No problem.  The Library now has a subscription to the World of Poetry, an amazing poetry resource that can help you find that poem.

In fact, the Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry contains the full-text of more than 250,000 poems and has citations to more than 450,000 poems published in books, anthologies, and periodicals.

But that’s not all!  It also provides the complete body of work for major poets such as Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and others.  It also includes searchable versions of many poetry reference books, and history and criticism from selected periodicals.

The advanced search features make this a very powerful resource for literary research.  The detailed subject index helps to identify poems for comparison, a frequent assignment.  The World of Poetry also gives you the ability to search for poems by words from the first or last line of a poem, an important feature which will help in tracking down familiar poems even if the poet and title are unknown.

Now that poem will be a lot easier to find.