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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)

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The 351 titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation orations from the Hampton Institute, Morgan College, and Wilberforce University. Also included are biographies, slave narratives, speeches by members of Congress, legal documents, poetry, playbills, dramas, and librettos. Other pamphlets focus on segregation, voting rights, violence against African-Americans, and the colonization of Africa by freed slaves.
Black Literature Index
-from Black Studies Center
"This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article."
African American Poetry: 20th Century
A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the last century.
Holdings: 20th century
Faber Poetry Library
A searchable, full-text collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.
belongs to Poetry Research Guide project
tagged 20thcentury faber full-text poetry volumes by lacan ...on 09-JUL-09
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
belongs to Poetry Research Guide project
tagged 20thcentury english faber poetry volumes by lacan ...on 09-JUL-09
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.
belongs to Poetry Research Guide project
tagged 20thcentury american database index poetry by lacan ...on 09-JUL-09
GarciLa, Mario T. . Desert immigrants : the Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 / Mario T. GarciLa. 0300025203 series New Haven : Yale University Press, 1981. Call#: Van Pelt Library F394.E4 G36

 

Digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.