Poetry takes many forms and styles: spoken word, prose and rhyming schemes, all flavor and shape this literary genre.
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The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry by 
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning From the Puritans to Whitman by 
Critical Survey of Poetry by 
The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Poets of the World and Their Web Sites by 
Poetry Criticism by 
Masterplots II, Poetry Series by Salem E-books are electronic versions of print reference books held in the Merced College Library.
Covers American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. TheEncyclopediaincludes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.
Coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world; full-text scholarly articles from more than 360 academic journals and literary magazines the majority peer-reviewed scholarly monographs, literary correspondence and diaries, reviews children's literature to adult fiction
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