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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. literary texts
  • BiblioBoard Web
    This is a trial version of BiblioBoard Web. BiblioBoard contains anthologies of books, images, documents, sounds and video around specific themes. BiblioBoard is also available as an app for the iPad and will soon be available for Kindle Fire HD and Nexus tablets. literary texts primary sources

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  • Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
    Contains at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the DOE Web Corpus represents over three million words of Old English and fewer than a million words of Latin. literary texts
  • 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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  • Grand Corpus des Littératures (Moyen Âge-20e s.)
    The Grand Corpus des Littératures (Moyen Âge-20e s.) offers the 4 bodies of literature published by Classiques Garnier Numérique: le Corpus de littérature médiévale- des origines à la fin du 15e siècl, le Corpus de littérature narrative du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle, le Corpus de la première littérature francophone d’Afrique noire- des origines aux Indépendances, le Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l’Océan Indien, des origines aux Indépendances. Coverage: Middle Ages- 20th Century. 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
  • Loeb Classical Library
    An interconnected, fully searchable, virtual library of our Greek and Latin Classical heritage. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available, including epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — all represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. literary texts

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  • New Oxford Shakespeare Online
    The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. literary criticism reference literary texts
  • New Play Exchange
    The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. literary texts
  • 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
  • NoveList
    NoveList is a readers' advisory tool to find books of fiction based on books already read or on topics of interest. Searchable by reading level (adult, young adult, child, and easy), author, title, subject, and plot. NoveList also provides lists of award winning books, such as the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Caldecott Medal winners. Coverage: varies. books e-books curriculum resources k-12 encyclopedias reference 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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  • Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
    A full text database containing the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain, published in full. literary texts
  • 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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  • 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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