The Columbia Granger's(r) Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works - (Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected & Selected Words)
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Highlights
- The second edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works greatly expands the range of one of the oldest continuously published reference works in the United States.
- Author(s): Keith Newton
- 1152 Pages
- Reference, Bibliographies & Indexes
- Series Name: Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected & Selected Words
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About the Book
This edition greatly expands the range of one of the oldest continuously published reference works in the United States. Granger's performs a valuable service for librarians by helping people locate poems when they have limited information about them, and by helping them locate poems by author or by the subjects they are interested in. Each edition of Granger's includes title, first line, author, and subject indexes for over 300 poetry collected and selected works on library shelves.
Book Synopsis
The second edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works greatly expands the range of one of the oldest continuously published reference works in the United States. Granger's performs a valuable service for librarians by helping people locate poems when they have limited information about them, and by helping them locate poems by author or by the subjects they are interested in. Each edition of Granger's includes title, first line, author, and subject indexes for over 300 poetry collected and selected works on library shelves.
In total, the second edition includes 315 works, by 266 different poets, locating more than 65,000 poems by title, first line, author, and subject. Included in this edition are the works of many of the major American and British poets of the last thirty years, such as Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon; important twentieth-century American poets, such as Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and Robert Penn Warren; twentieth-century foreign poets in new translations, such as Eugenio Montale and Paul Celan; and diverse poets from all times and places, collected in new editions, such as Cold Mountain, Jones Very, and Guido Cavalcanti. An expanded Subject Index contains more than 4,400 subjects, including many new subjects relating to specific people, places, or events from the history and culture of the twentieth century. Langston Hughes's poems on the Scottsboro case and the Spanish Civil War are as easy to find as Wallace Steven's poems about perception and Yusef Komunyakaa's poems about jazz.Review Quotes
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry remains a prominent work in poetry indexing and the definitive source in English for locating poems in anthologies.-- "Library Journal"
A vital reference source.... As it has been for more than ninety years, Granger's is one of the truly essential and indisputably useful reference works.-- "Wilson Quarterly (of the first edition)"
An outstanding selection tool for poetry collections...higly recommended.-- "Choice"
The second edition updates and expands the 1996 version and is a welcome companion to the familiar.... Designed to make the works of poetry found on most library shelves accessible, Columbia Granger's is an outstanding selection tool for poetry collections. Highly recommended [for] high school, college, and public libraries with even modest poetry collections.-- "Choice"
Valuable access to thousands of poems not heretofore covered by the various editions of the original Granger's.-- "Booklist (of the first edition)"