Description

Grangers World of Poetry provides full text of poems as well as biographical and critical content. It provides over 400,000 poem citations, over 40,000 poems in full text and over 7500 excerpts. Included are biographies of the world's best-loved poets and an extensive glossary of terms and definitions, ratings and descriptions of the key print anthologies and collected and selected works of poetry. It also links to outstanding Web sites such as the Poetry Project (Robert Pinsky) and Poetry 180 (Billy Collins).

Features and benefits

Search by Index, Author, Author Category, Subject, Title, First Line, Last Line, or KEYWORD. Or combine up to five indexes in one search. Ask for just complete poems or only excerpts and arrange searches alphabetically. Look at all entries or limit the results. And from any entry LINK to anthologies, biographies, commentary, and the glossary.

For over a century, Granger's® has been the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves. First published in 1904, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry is now in its 12th edition.

In 1999, Granger’s went online as The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry.  Included in the online version are a series of key Columbia poetry titles:

• The Classic Hundred Poems -- a fully annotated anthology of the one hundred poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
• The Top 500 Poems -- an annotated anthology of the 500 poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8–12 – an index to poetry in anthologies
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2 -- an index to poems in the other main type of poetry book found on library shelves
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry -- an index to 65 volumes of the best poetry by African Americans

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