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)

American Poetry: 20th Century
This collection of full-text poems includes 52,000 drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

American Poetry (1600-1900)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.