English Research Guide

HSU Research Guide on finding poetry and poetry criticism.

This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

(restricted to Cal Poly Humboldt users only) This is a resource that our library subscribes to. It is freely available on the web only to Cal Poly Humboldt faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students.

This Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

This resource from the Purdue Online Writing Lab will help you begin the process of understanding literary theory and schools of criticism and how they are used in the academy.

Focuses on debates about literary theories, each issue features articles in which contributors compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop their own positions on the theses, methods, and theoretical implications of those works. .

Presents articles on English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Also contains book reviews.

Focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs.