Library Research and Resources: Prose and Poetry
Speech 2013: Voice and Diction




PROSE:
Prose: a: the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing b : a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech. Webster Dictionary © 2011 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. >> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prose



PROSE: Selected Black American Prose and Poetry Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance
Arna Bontemps >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/arna_bontemps and >> http://www.afropoets.net/arnabontemps.html
Sterling A. Brown >> http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/203 and >> http://www.afropoets.net/sterlingbrown.html
Countee Cullen >> http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/55 and >> http://www.afropoets.net/counteecullen.html
Jessie Redmon Fauset >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jessie_redmon_fauset and >> http://www.afropoets.net/jessiefauset.html
Rudolph Fisher
Langston Hughes >> http://www.afropoets.net/langstonhughes.html
Zora Neale Hurston >> http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Zora+Neale+Hurston and >> http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wrlbph/big_read.html
Nella Larsen
Claude McKay >> http://www.afropoets.net/claudemckay.html
Wallace Thurman
Jean Toomer >> http://www.afropoets.net/jeantoomer.html
Walter White
Richard Wright >> http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/wright_richard/
Prose: Selected American Prose Writers of the 1800 and 1900 Century
Booker T. Washington >> http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washington/bio.html
W.E.B. DuBois´ >> http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
Frederick Douglass >> http://www.frederickdouglass.org/speeches/index.html
Ralph Waldo Emerson >>http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/ralph_waldo_emerson and http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_poems.htm
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Ellison
Phillis Wheatley >> http://www.afropoets.net/philliswheatley.html
Marcus Garvey >> http://www.afropoets.net/marcusgarvey.html
James Weldon Johnson >> http://www.afropoets.net/jamesjohnson.html
POETRY
Poetry: a: metrical writing: verse b : the productions of a poet : poems 2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. © 2011 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. >> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetry
Poetry and Prose: Selected American Writers
Angelou, Maya >> http://www.afropoets.net/mayaangelou.html
Addison, Joseph >>
Aiken, Conrad
Akenside, Mark
Aragon, Louis
Arnold, Matthew
Artaud, Antonin
Auden, W.H.
Baudelaire, Charles
Behn, Aphra
Blake, William
Bradstreet, Anne
Brooks, Gwendolyn >> http://www.afropoets.net/gwendolynbrooks.html
Bronte, Anne
Brooke, Rupert
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/elizabeth_barrett_browning
Browning, Robert
Byron, George Gordon - Lord
Campion, Thomas
Carroll, Lewis
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Coleridge, Samuel
Commings, E. E. >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings
Congreve, William
Crane, Stephen
Dickinson, Emily >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/emily_dickinson
Donne, John
Dryden, John
Eliot, T.S.
Frost, Robert >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost
Gay, John
Giovanni, Nikki >> http://www.afropoets.net/nikkigiovanni.html
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Hemingway, Ernest >>
Holmes, Oliver Wendell >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/oliver_wendell_holmes
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/henry_wadsworth_longfellow
Lorde, Audre >> http://www.afropoets.net/audrelorde.html
Lowell, Amy
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Poe, Edgar Allan >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edgar_allan_poe
Shange, Ntozake >> http://www.afropoets.net/ntozakeshange.html
Tennyson, Lord Alfred >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lord_alfred_tennyson
Walker, Alice >> http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker.html
Wheatley, Phillis >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/phillis_wheatley
Whitman, Walt >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/walt_whitman
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, William Carlos
Wordsworth, William
Yeats, William Butler
Library Research Resources:
Database:
Oxford African American Studies Center >> http://www.oxfordaasc.com/ ( John B. Coleman Library: username and password required if Off Campus >> http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/3622.asp)
Literacy Reference Center >> http://web.ebscohost.com/lrc/search?sid=1bb16073-d146-4e82-a3de-e8753831c63a%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&hid=113 (John B. Coleman Library: username and password required if Off Campus >> http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/3622.asp)
John B. Coleman Library: COMMUNICATIONS and JOURNALISM- ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ( Databases)
>> http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/3701.asp
John B. Coleman Library: LITERATURE and LANGUAGES- ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Databases)
>> http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/3712.asp
Credible Websites:
Famous Poetry Poets Writers and Authors >> http://www.eliteskills.com/classics.php
Famous Poets and Their Poems >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/top_poems.html
Famous Top African American Poets >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets_african_american.html
Famous Poetry Poets Writers and Authors >> http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/America/American_poets.html
AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers>> http://www.afropoets.net/
John B. Coleman Library: Online Catalog
Online Catalog >> https://voyager-pv.tamu.edu/ (Click the tab- Fill in the Box)
Prose and African American: (Prose)[in Keyword Anywhere] AND (african AND american)[in Keyword Anywhere]
Poetry and African American:
(Poetry)[in Keyword Anywhere] AND (african AND american)[in Keyword Anywhere]
Poetry and Voice
(Poetry)[in Keyword Anywhere] AND (voice)[in Keyword Anywhere]
Prose and Voice
(Prose)[in Keyword Anywhere] AND (voice)[in Keyword Anywhere]
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