Resources for Students
Baym, Nina, Wayne Franklin, Phillip Gura, Arnold Krupat, and Robert Levine. The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volumes A&B. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. A good comprehensive source for American poetry across its entire history, with useful historical and literary background.
Fry, Stephen. The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking The Poet Within. New York, New York: Gotham, 2005. A good light-hearted primer for writing poetry regardless one's experience.
Hollander, Jon. Rhyme's Reason: A guide to English Verse. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1981. A good primer for conventions of verse.
Preminger, Alex, Terry Brogan, and Frank Warnke. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton, New Jersey: University of Princeton Press, 1993. Comprehensive
Guide to poetical terminology and devices.
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