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Poetry: Books & Ebooks

Collections and Anthologies

book cover Norton Contemporary Poetry
Best Poems English Language
book cover African American Poetry
book cover Penguin Twentieth Century American Poetry
book cover Oxford Latin American Poetry
book cover Penguin Book of the Sonnet
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book cover Bullets into Bells
book cover Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
book cover Bright Wings Bird Poetry
book cover The Forbidden Iran Poems
book cover Twentieth Century in Poetry
book cover Human Flourishing
book cover Medieval English Lyric

Research and Study

Writing Haiku
book cover What is Poetry
book cover Poetry Handbook
book cover BreakBeat Poets
book cover Oxford Handbook Contemporary Poetry
book cover Contemporary Poets
book cover Forms of Poetic Attention
book cover Selling Contemporary Poetry
Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
book cover Poetry Unbound
book cover Book of Forms
book cover Cambridge Victorian Poetry
book cover On Haiku
book cover Poets of Alexandria
book cover Who Killed American Poetry
book cover How to Read a Japanese Poem
book cover Left of Poetry
book cover Routledge Poets on Poets
book cover The Poetic Imperative

20th Century Poets

 


Picture Books & For Youth

 


Ebook Collections

Below are the library's main ebook collections; links can also be found on the library's database page

One of the best things about the majority of our ebooks is that they do not need to be checked out and have no due date. Read an ebook in a browser window, anywhere you have Internet access. Libby ebooks are best enjoyed using an app on a device, but they may be read in an Internet browser as well; these items will have a "due date" indicating when the ebook will be automatically "returned" (renewal options may be available). 

If you are off campus, reading ebooks will require logging in with your Canvas/email username and password.



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   But what strange art, what magic can dispose
The troubled mind to change its native woes?
Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see
Others more wretched, more undone than we?
This BOOKS can do; - nor this alone; they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise,
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:
Their aid they yield to all: they never shun
The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone:
Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud,
They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd;
Nor tell to various people various things,
But show to subjects what they show to kings.

From The Library by George Crabbe