Research Guides: How to Find Translations into and from English: Poems

Poetry indexes

Online Index:

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry contains citations for poems that appear in anthologies and collections, as well as poet biographies, commentaries, a glossary of poetic terms, and full text for some poems. Users can search poems by title, first line, author gender, genre, and more.

Paper Indexes:

Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. PN1022.F73 1997
Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections. Reference Collection, 9th floor, PN1022.C54 (Non-circulating)

The Internet

There is a great deal of translated poetry on the internet. If you can't find the poem in an index, try a google search of the author's name and the title or a few words from the poem in English, for example Puhskin "I loved"; Akhmatova "Lot's Wife."