Poetry Criticism

One of the requirements for your poetry project is to read two articles of professional criticism. 

Criticism is literary analysis by a literary scholar published by a reputable publishing company or an educational institution.  DO NOT use a Google search to find criticism--I will not honor that as fulfilling the expectation of the assignment.

Here are acceptable sources for criticism:

1. EBSCO has a database called the Literary Reference Center.  This will likely be the easiest, most convenient choice since you can do it right in my room from the iPad.  It will have criticism for most of your poet choice.  Merely choose the Literary Reference Center, search your poet's name, choose the criticism tab, and find an article about your poem in particular OR about your poet's general style, use of various devices, etc.  The tricky part of this convenient source is citing an EBSCO articles.  Keep in mind, the vast majority of critical essays (including those reprinted online via EBSCO) are originally published as works in an anthology.  You must keep that in mind when it is time to cite your EBSCO sources.
2.  Critical essays in a poetry anthology are another source.  Some of you are using books for your poems that also contain essays of criticism.  These are also viable sources.  You would cite them as a work in an anthology.
3. Books of critical essays are perhaps the best source of criticism.  They are usually organized by author and contain many essays by several different authors, making it easy for both you and your partner to find articles that help each of you all in one source.  This type of source is the trickiest to find:  our MC has a small but well-marked section of literary criticism that may contain books on your poet OR Dunn Library at Simpson has a very large collection of literary criticism which will likely take care of any and all of the poets you might be studying.  Anyone with an Indianola Public Library card may check out books from Simpson.  Dunn is located where Euclid deadends into Buxton, just to the south of the Great Hall/cafeteria.  You can search for the books you want online before you go, write down the call number, and have a far more efficient trip to the library.  Again, these essays would be cited as works in an anthology.