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English Literature Literary Texts

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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. literary texts
American Drama, 1714-1915
Over 700 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson. Coverage: 1714-1915. literary texts
American Poetry
Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. Coverage: 1600-1900. literary texts

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Drama Online
Drama Online is a unique online resource published by Bloomsbury Publishing, of over 1,000 full-text plays and 100+ related reference works. Accessible collections include the Core Collection, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1&2, and Shakespeare in the Present. literary texts video multimedia

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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. literary texts
Early English Prose Fiction
Over 200 works of fictional prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700. Coverage: 1500-1700. literary texts
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. literary texts
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Contains 96 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles. Coverage: 1700-1780. literary texts
English Drama
Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Coverage: 1280-1915. literary texts
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. 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. literary texts

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King James Bible
Full title: The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the originall tongues: & with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall Comandement Appointed to be read in Churches. Coverage: 1611. literary texts

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Literary Manuscripts: Berg
Traces the genesis of some of the period’s greatest literary masterpieces through the unique manuscripts of their authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented include: Matthew Arnold, The Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. literary texts primary sources documents manuscripts
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers’™ Project
The Federal Writers’™ Project (FWP) was the most controversial and contentious program of the Depression-era’s Work Projects Administration, recognizing that journalists, playwrights and novelists were also unemployed. This collection presents the FWP publications of all 47 states involved in the project. Coverage: 1933-1943. literary texts primary sources documents manuscripts

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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. literary texts

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ProQuest Learning: Literature
Provides full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world. Also offers secondary sources such as author biographies and multimedia, as well as literary criticisms, essays, reviews, and interviews drawn from full-text literary magazines and journals. encyclopedias reference literary texts
ProQuest One Literature
Provides content and tools to support the study of literature from a variety of sources including diverse primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video. Coverage: varies. literary texts

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Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South
The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year run and was in its time the South’s most important literary periodical. Scholars and students of history, journalism, and literature can discern much about how the hot-button topics of slavery and secession were presented in southern intellectual and literary culture in the early stages of the Civil War. Coverage: 1834-1864. literary texts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals

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Theatre and Drama Premium
Theatre and Drama Premium provides everything you need to bring the spectacle of theatre and drama into the classroom, from interviews with giants like Arthur Miller or James Earl Jones to previously unpublished play manuscripts from the genius of Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga.Includes the Drama Text collection, featuring Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, and more; and the Theatre Performance and Design Collection, featuring the National Theatre Collection, Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, and more. literary texts video multimedia
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. literary texts
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. literary texts
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. literary texts

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Understanding Shakespeare
Easily find JSTOR articles that cite a given line of a Shakespeare play. Simply navigate to the line of the play and click the number next to it to view a list of relevant articles from the JSTOR archive. Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals literary criticism reference 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. literary texts primary sources

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