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Literary Index is a master index which combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Search this resource to find locate entries in the library's literature reference books: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, and Shakespearian Criticism.

Scholarly and popular commentary on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Includes the following series: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400–1800, Classical and Medieval, Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature.

A resource where one can search for poems, stories, essays, speeches, and plays. Over 125,000 full text national and international poems are available, along with thousands of short stories that are complemented by biographies, explanations, and images.
Quick Tip: Find a poem among LitFINDER’s 125,000 full text poems.

Citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Subjects: literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of language and literature.

The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium covering the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Quick Tips: OED Guide (pdf)

Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.