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 Languages & Literature
Poetry Research Guide
Start here for help browsing and
searching for research materials in poetry. Compiled by our languages &
literature librarian, Amanda Makula.
Databases
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (CD-ROM available at library
reference desk)
Includes the poems of such well known figures, and many lesser-known poets whose
works may be found only in anthologies or in private libraries. Covers a wide
range of topics from slavery to abolition, to love and death.
American Periodical Series Online
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing
between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines,
literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many
other historically-significant periodicals.
L'Année Philologique
Guide to articles, essays, and conference papers on subjects from the Classical
time period. Includes references to articles in English, French, German,
Italian, and Spanish. Searches may be limited to one or more of these
languages.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The Children's Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides access to records for over 600,000
children's books, more than 70,000 reviews, and information on prizes and awards
that the books have won. The database allows searching by topic and genre. It is
updated monthly.
Clase & Periodica
A database of Latin American journals that indexes documents in 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. These journals specialize in science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Contemporary Authors
Offers biographical details on over 100,000 modern authors (current and
literary figures of the early 20th century.) CA includes authors writing in
English in the United States and authors from around the world whose works have
been translated into English or published in the United States.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (see Shakespeare)
Essay & General Literature Index
Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works
published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada 1985 to present. More
than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Includes
full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are
found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
A source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Humanities Abstracts
Includes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies,
original works of fiction, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals,
movies, and television and radio programs from more than 300 publications.
Indexing dates back to 1984, and abstracts start in 1994.
ITER
Meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, ITER is a non-profit research project
with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe,
Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials
pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation
of online bibliographic databases.
JSTOR Journal Archive
Stores hundreds of scholarly journals in full-text format, including many social science journals. Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups. For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available. Here's why.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Literature Resource Center: A User's Guide
LexisNexis Academic Universe
LexisNexis includes articles in full text from over 350 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times back to 1980, as well as from magazines and journals, such as The New Yorker and Newsweek. Search for book reviews and articles on writers and trends in the literary world. (Select "Book, Movie, Music, Play and Video Reviews" from the "Select Sources" pull-down menu in the News search tab.) LexisNexis also includes publications in other languages.
MLA Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.
Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the
Bibliography dates back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from
more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Coverage is international and subjects
include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory &
criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and
publishing.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Period -- 1950
When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the
largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled.
Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500
women to researchers, students, and general readers.
Oxford English Dictionary
The electronic version of the print dictionary. Includes documentation of
history of words that helps explain why a word has come to have a particular
meaning.
PRISMA
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Articles examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage includes Anthropology, Business and Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology.
Project MUSE
250 full text journals published by John Hopkins University
in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Shakespeare (CD-ROM available at library
reference desk)
Full-text of eleven major editions from William Shakespeare's works from the
First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty eight separate
contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and
related works, and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques
from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Websites
Paris Review
Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, this site offers both print and audio interviews about writing conducted with almost every major American writer who has published during the last 50 years.
Women Writers Online
A product of Brown University's Women Writers Project (WWP),
this online resource provides full text access to hundreds of documents and
works of literature writen by women, covering a period from 1400 to 1850.
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