Annotated Bibliography
Abrams, M. H. . Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Rinehart, 1971.
This is a great basic text that covers terms and theories applicable to world literature.
College Board. "English Literature". http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_englit.html>.
"College Readiness Standards". ACT, Inc. http://www.act.org/standard/>.
Deutche, Babette. Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms. New York: Harper, 1974.
This text is good for basic poetry terms to cover in class. It also provides titles of examples that correspond.
Ellemann, Richard. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. NewYork: W. W. Norton, 1988.
This is a wonderful text that includes modern poetry in the authors' chronological order. It begins with Whitman and continues to authors who were born in the mid 1950's.
Ferguson, Margaret . The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
There are thousands of pages of poems in authors' chronological order from Anglo-Saxon to the present cannon in this edition. Additionally, it also includes short biographical entries as an appendix.
"Robert Frost" Poets.org http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192>.
Rosenblum, Joseph. The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: Vol. 4 Romances and Poetry. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005.
The nice thing about this text is that it does the following: paraphrases the sonnet, addresses the placement of the sonnet in relation to those around it, identifies devices and techniques, locates themes and meanings, and shows their relationship to other Shakespearean texts. Additionally, each entry includes its own annotated bibliography.
Sandburg, Carl. The Atlantic Monthly. March, 1942. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/42mar/sandburg.htm>.
Schoenbaum, Samuel. William Shakespeare, a compact documentary life. New York: Oxford, 1977.
This text combines an anthology of Shakespeare's works with original stage directions, omitted lines, and revisions.
Strand, Mark. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
Each chapter offers insight into a variety of poetic forms via history, contemporary application, and close reading.
Wells, Stanley, and Michael Dobson. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. New York: Oxford, 2001.
This is another very good anthology of Shakespeare's works. This anthology also includes a first line index of his sonnets.
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