English (Literature)
Databases marked with are sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
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Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac)
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors. Includes full-text excerpts from books, as well as from magazines, journals, and newspapers. -
African-American poetry, 1760-1900
Full-text of over 2,500 poems, based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975. -
American poetry database
Includes 40,356 full-text poems from 1,288 works by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. -
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch)
Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas. -
English Poetry
English Poetry contains poems in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century by writers from the British Isles. Overall the database contains over 165,000 poems which have been drawn from about 4,500 separate printed sources. -
English Verse Drama
Contains more than 2,200 works by around 500 named and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century. -
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)
eBook collection that includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. -
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Online access to the most comprehensive English-language dictionary. -
Oxford Reference Online
Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas. -
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.