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African-American Poetry
Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Coverage: 1750-1900. Subject(s): Literary Texts, Ethnic & Area Studies
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American Drama
Over 700 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson. Coverage: 1714-1911. Subject(s): Literary Texts, Performing Arts
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American Poetry
Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. Coverage: 1600-1900. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Arden Shakespeare
"The Arden Shakespeare includes: the complete text of every play and poem in The Arden Shakespeare second series; facsimile reproductions of each page of early folio and quarto texts for every play and poem (where these are available); also, in some cases, such as Hamlet, a further quarto text; and five supplementary texts key to the study of Shakespeare." Coverage: Second series. Subject(s): Literary Criticism/Ref, Literary Texts, Performing Arts
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ARTFL - American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
The main ARTFL database includes almost 2000 French texts. The full text may be searched and results will be displayed in context. However the complete text cannot be displayed. Other databases available through ARTFL include the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclop Coverage: 12th-20th centuries. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Bible in English (990-1970)
Contains twenty different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. Coverage: 990-1970. Subject(s): Religion
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Early American Fiction
A collection of American novels and short stories written before 1875. Includes both well-known and obscure figures. Coverage: 1789-1875. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Early English Prose Fiction
Over 200 works of fictional prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700. Coverage: 1500-1700. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Contains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha, and related works. Also contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Coverage: 1591-1911. Subject(s): Literary Texts, Performing Arts
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Contains 96 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles. Coverage: 1700-1780. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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English Drama
Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Coverage: 1280-1915. Subject(s): Performing Arts, Literary Texts
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English Poetry
Contains over 165,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900. More than 1,250 poets are represented. Coverage: 600-1900. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Faber Poetry Library
Contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath. Coverage: 1925-1999. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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King James Bible - 'Authorized' Version
The standard English edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries, drawing heavily on previous editions and providing the principal influence for many subsequent versions. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies in general. Coverage: 1611 edition. Subject(s): Religion
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Literature Online - LION
Over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes: ABELL; African-American Poetry (1750-present); American Drama (1714-1911); American Poetry (1600-present); The Bible In English (990-1970); Early American Fiction (1789-1850); Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700); Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911); English Drama (1280-1915); English Poetry (600-present); Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Faber Poetry (1925-1999); King James Bible; Nineteenth Century Fiction; and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Coverage: varies. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Includes 250 novels from the period 1786 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period. Coverage: 1786-1903. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Includes over 10,000 poems by around 70 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes. Coverage: 1901-2000. Subject(s): Ethnic & Area Studies, Literary Texts
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Twentieth Century American Poetry
Includes over 50,000 poems by over 300 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song. Coverage: 1901-2000. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Twentieth Century English Poetry
Over 500 volumes of poetry including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy. Coverage: 1885-2000. Subject(s): Literary Texts
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Women Writers Online
"Women Writers Online contains the full text of hundreds of pre-Victorian English-language works written by women. Works are both fiction and non-fiction. The text of each work is fully searchable. A special subset, Renaissance Women Online, contains 100 works from this period as well as critical commentary." Coverage: 1400-1850. Subject(s): Literary Texts, Primary Sources, Gender Studies