How to Find Poetry  

This guide is designed to help you find information about poets and poems. Click on any of the tabs above to find reference sources, books, and journal articles containing commentary and biographical information on a poet and/or criticism of his or her work.

If you need assistance, be sure to click on the Help tab. MCC Librarians can assist you in a variety of ways.

Literary criticism is written by scholars who have devoted their professional lives to the study of literature. These people typically publish their criticism in the form of essays in books or articles in scholarly journals. Criticism from credible and authoritative sources can be difficult to find through websites.