How To Guide (Poetry) Santa Rosa Junior College

Poetry

USING GRANGER'S INDEX TO POETRY

1. You can find a poem in Granger's by looking in the Subject, Author or Title index.

Example: You will find the poem "Myth" by Muriel Rukeyser listed in the following ways:

SUBJECT INDEX
Feminism

March of Women, The Hamilton

Myth. Rukeyser

Ninth Symphony of Beethoven

Understood at last as a Sexual Message

AUTHOR INDEX
Rukeyser

Motive of All of It, The

Myth.

Night Feeding

TITLE AND FIRST LINE INDEX
Myth. Ned O'Gorman. TwAmPo
Myth. Muriel Rukeyser. IHMS; NNaP (These abbreviations stand for books in which the poem may be found.)

No matter what section you use first, you must consult the
TITLE AND FIRST LINE INDEX
to find the abbreviation of the book the poem is in.

2. To find the book that an abbreviation stands for turn to the front section of Granger's called KEY TO SYMBOLS.

Look up the abbreviation you find in Step One. This will give you the name and publication information of the book in which your poem can be found.

IMHS	I hear my Sisters Saying Poems by Twentieth Century Women. Carol Konek and Dorothy Walters, eds. (1976) Thomas Y. Cronwell Co.
PS 589 .I2

For books listed in Granger's 7th edition through the current edition, look up the book's abbreviation in the Key to Symbols. If the book is in the Library's collection, the call number is written next to the abbreviation. Write down the Library, Location and the Call Number. Find the book on the shelf and locate the poem.

3. Next check to see if the Library has the book using the Library Catalog.

4. If the Library does not have a copy of the book ask the Reference Librarian about InterLibrary Loan (ILL).

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Last updated:April 24, 2008	Questions and Comments: Phyllis Usina