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-

Lexicons of Early Modern English

(from http://jducoeur.livejournal.com/583514.html -- hattip to Eric Jordan for link to this person's lj)

Once in a while, I come across one of those "how have I not noticed this before?" sites. Today's is LEME -- Lexicons of Early Modern English.

Basically, it's a fully searchable site, with the transcribed text of 150+ English and polyglot dictionaries and other useful collections of words, starting in 1480 -- about half are period, and the rest 17th century. The most basic functionality is that you can search for a particular term, and it will give you back the basic entries around that term.

Paid membership isn't cheap ($75/year for individuals, quite a bit for institutions), but looks like it may be quite worth it for serious research: it appears to include full-text browsing of all the sources, and lots of additional functions -- word lists, richer searching, and so on. (Frankly, I can easily see myself paying for it and just losing myself in the books for a few weeks' intellectual entertainment.)

Very neat stuff -- one of the better instances of books-as-toys that I've come across lately, and probably extremely useful for some projects...

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
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
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

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.

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

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