LITERATURE RESOURCES
Titles with or (L) beside them indicate NCLive or LMC resources, accessible from campus computers or by password only.  LMC students, faculty, and staff may obtain passwords by contacting the library.

Reference Sources

(L)   MLA International Bibliography  The definitive resource for scholarly work in literature and languages. (Scroll down page to MLA International Bibliography.)
NoveList  A readers' advisory service. Helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.
Oxford English Dictionary
(L)   JSTOR


Metasites

Literary Resources on the Net
Romantic Circles--Study of Romantic Period Literature and Culture
Folger Shakespeare Library

Online Texts and Collections

African-American Poetry  Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Indexed from 1750 to 1900
American Poetry  Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.  Indexed from 1600 to 1900
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
English Poetry  Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.  Indexed from 600 to 1900
Faber Poetry Library  A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
The On-line Books Page
The Internet Classics Archive
Project Gutenberg
Sonnet Central

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry  A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets.
Twentieth Century American Poetry  A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
Twentieth Century English Poetry  Contains tens of thousands of works by 288 poets, it provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.
 

Criticism

Online Literary Criticism Collection

Literary Theory

Jack Lynch's Literary Resources--Theory
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
David Gauntlett's Social Theory Site