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.

Twelve very handy refererence books for quick look-ups.

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.

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.