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What is Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online
Online version of Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry.
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- Find poems you know or find a new poem searching by subject.
- Contains 210,000 full text poems to date but that number is always growing.
- In addition to poem text, one can search:
- Poet biographies
- Anthologies
- The Glossary, which contains poetry-related terms
- A directory of Critical Context on selected topics such as 20th century soldier poetry and Chinese lyricism.
Things to Know
- All search screens have search directions built into the page so there is no extra clicking to find search help.
- Search results provide an array of information when available. Such information includes:
- How to cite the poem
- The full text
- The poet's bio
- Poem info = where poem has been published and of those publications which ones are recommended by Granger's, and commentary about poem.
- Not all poems will have full text available.





