Literature Links
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Contemporary Authors
Presents complete and up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 125,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Offers full text critical essays on over 800 contemporary authors and their works, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides over 12,000 biographical and full-text critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Ebsco Literary Reference Center
This is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals. Also includes the Bloom Series of over 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers edited by Harold Bloom.
HUMANITIES
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.
Literature Resource Center
Providing immediate access to the most comprehensive and current online database on authors and their works, LRC includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's most-used literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 121,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers such as philosophers, filmmakers, and anthropologists. This resource includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Twayne Authors Series and the Scribners Writers Series.
MLA Bibliography
An index of literary criticism. Indexes books and journals. Not a full-text database.
Scribner Writers
Access to over 1,800 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.
Twayne's Author Series
The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.
20th Century Poetry Collections
Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Twentieth-Century American Poetry - This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets.
