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Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, the site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993. Hosted by The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper.

Literature Online Reference Resources

Literature Online Reference Resources
An 8-title collection of reference resources on poetry, the novel, and literary theory
Literature Online currently makes the following reference works searchable individually or as a group:

The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1995)
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001)
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980)

English Poetry: 20th Century

English Poetry: 20th Century
A collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.
Holdings: Faber Poetry Library

BHI: British Humanities Index

BHI: British Humanities Index
-from CSA Databases
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. Topics include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, education, economics, foreign affairs, environment, cinema, current affairs, gender studies, history, language, law, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, and theatre.
Holdings: coverage begins in 1962-

English Poetry (600-1900), second edition

English Poetry (600-1900), second edition
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th plus representation from Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries. Over 183,000 searchable full-text poems by more than 2,700 poets drawn from over 4,500 printed sources.

JSTOR: The English Journal, Vol. 56, No. 1, (1967 ), pp. 38-113

Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources, 1943-1967, by Mary Anne Heyward Ferguson.

Ferguson, Mary Anne. . Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources, 1943-1967, by Mary Anne Heyward Ferguson. [0231034350 ] New York, Columbia University Press, 1974.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z6517 .F47

Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies / James L. Harner.

This is a selective guide to the best resources (both print and online) for students doing literary research. Each entry is annotated to explain what is is and why it is useful.

Dido & Aeneas [sound recording] / Henry Purcell.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.. Dido & Aeneas [sound recording] / Henry Purcell.[Saint-Michel de Provence] : Harmonia Mundi France, p1986.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Ormandy Music and Media Center Harmo. 905173 CD

Oxford Reference: Literature

Twelve very handy refererence books for quick look-ups.

Oxford English Dictionary

Online version of the twenty-volume printed edition, published in 1989. Contains almost 300,000 entries, 650,000 word forms, and 2.4 million quotations which illustrate the development of the English language from before Beowulf to the present.

Literary research guide : an annotated listing of reference sources in English literary studies / James L. Harner.

This is a selective guide to the best resources (both print and online) for students doing literary research. Each entry is annotated to explain what is is and why it is useful.