Encyclopedia of American Poetry Online

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century is now available online via Credo Reference.

The encyclopedia examines individual poets and poems, and contains many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century.

Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.