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 PATHFINDERS   top
 Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA 
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on a 
topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their 
research project.

BRITISH LITERATURE & POETRY

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electric card catalog) located on the student desktop.  Type in the literary person's name (last name, first name) whose work(s) your are researching.  Try  a key word search using the literary work's title that you are researching, this will bring up critical analysis on the work. 

Some subject headings you can search for are:

Poets, English
English poetry
English Literature
 Using the above subject headings and selecting the browse button will bring up more specific topics under these broader subject terms.
 

Some titles we have are:

REF
808.1
POE		 Poetry for Students. (20 vol.) NY: Gale, 1998- .
 
REF
808.1
POE		  Poets : American and British. (3 vol.)  NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
REF
808.82
DRA		 Drama for Students. (18 vol.) Detroit: Gale, 2003- .
REF
808.83
NOV		 Novels for Students. (19 vol.) Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004- .
REF
809
MAG		 Magill's Survey of World Literature. (6 vol.) NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.
REF
809.1
CRI 
 		 Critical Survey of Poetry. (8 vol.) Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2003.
REF
809.1
EPI		 Epics for Students. (2 vol.) Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001.
REF
809.1
NOT		 Notable Poets. (3 vol.) Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1998
REF
809.3
CRI		 Critical Survey of Long Fiction. (8 vols.) Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2000.
REF
809.3
SHO		 Short Stories for Students. (19 vol.) Detroit, MI: Gale, 2004- .
REF
809.91
LIT		 Literary Movements for Students. (2 vol.) Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2002.
REF
809.933
LIT
 		 Literature and Its Times. (5vol. + suppls.) Detroit: Gale, 1997- .
REF
820.9
BLO		 The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism. (11 vols.)  NY: Chelsea House, 1985.
REF
820.9
BRI		 British Writers. (7 vol.+ suppls.) NY: Scribner, 1979- .
REF
820.9
BRI		 British Writers Classics. (2 vol.) NY: Gale, 2004.
REF
820.9
CON		 Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography. (8 vol.) Detroit: Gale, 1992.
REF
820.9
ENC		 Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th Century, 20th Century. (2 vol.) New York : Facts on File, 2003.
REF
820.9
MOD		 Modern British Literature. (5 vols.) NY: Frederick Ungar, 1981.
REF
820.9
NOT		 Notable British Novelists. (3 vols.) Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2001.
REF
821.08
HEA		  Major British Poets of the Romantic Period. Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 1973
REF
920
GRE		 Great World Writers: Twentieth Century. (13 vols.) NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2002.


SELECTED WEB SITES

Internet Public Library
 http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Browse for criticism by author's last name, or browse works by title, or browse by literary period under British Literature.

Academy of American Poets
 http:www.poets.org
Find a poem or a biography of more than 500 poets.  Also included in this site are essays, interviews, audio clips and more.

Poetry Foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poetrytool.html
 Contains thousands of poems by category, occasion, holidays, first lines. Website features include articles, news, audio & podcasts to name a few.

Modern British Poetry
 http://bartleby.com/103/
Find biographies, poems, quotations.

Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/
From the University of Toronto, this is a searchable database of poems and information about poets. It includes "3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today."

LitLinks
 http://www.bedfordstmartin.com/litlinks/
Annotated compilation of information about a work, its author and period. Here you may search by author within 5 genres: fiction, drama, poetry, essays and critical theory.

Multnomah County Library Homework Center
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/lithc.html
Excellent site for information on literature and authors; arrangement is by subject categories

Literary History
 http://www.literaryhistory.com
Literary History is an index to full-text internet published articles covering more than 250 major American and
British Writers.

Shmoop
http://www.shmoop.com/literature/
"An educational website for high school and college students, created by Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley."
Contains information on Literature, Poetry and U.S.History.

Introduction to First World War Poetry
http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/WWI/poets/poets.html  
     (Brigham Young University)
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/
      (Emory University)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/20CAmericanandBritish.htm#WWI
"a web guide to the poetry of World War I from literaryhistory.com" (check literaryhistory.com website for more info on WW I poets).

VICTORIAN SITES:

The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org

BBC Victorian Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/

History in Focus: The Victorian Era
 http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/index.html

ONLINE DATABASES

 InfoTrac® PowerSearch
     Contains databases of magazine articles, biographical resources, literature, health and
     business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Gale
     Biography In Context.

Literature Sources from Gale   (part of InfoTrac® PowerSearch databases)
*Combines information from LitFinder and Literature Resource Center--LRC
Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres.
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text of literary works, literature criticism, journal articles and reviews
from all time periods and from around the world. 
Includes:  Poetry for Students, Novels for Students, Short Stories for Students, and Drama for Students. 
*to search LitFinder or Literature Resource Center separately, just click on its name.

  Literary Reference Center  [in library & from home]*
   " is a comprehensive database that provides users with a 
     broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary 
     disciplines and timeframes." 
     *To access students must use their Nevins Library Card.

    Salem Literature
        Includes:  *Critical Insights: Authors
                         *Critical Insights: Works
*If using from home: click on remote access and enter the password in the Login area.
Ask the media specialist for the password.

   eLibrary (currently unavailble)
     Full text database of magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and
     maps. Find full text, up-to-date, published articles.

    ProQuest (Massachusetts Newsstand)
     Newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), 
     Boston Herald (1991 - current), and several other Massachusetts newspapers.

Ebooks from infobase: Use this link to quickly access our Ebooks from Infobase publishers.
Click on the Literature to access those books relevant to your topic..
*If using from home: you will be prompted for a Username and Password. Ask one of the media specialists for the passwords.

   CITING SOURCES

 

Using these links indicates the user is leaving
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.
Edited by Media Staff
 03/30/11
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