Subject Guide: English

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Humanities Liaison Librarian - Joshua Finnell

English Department Homepage

Online Resources

Databases and indexes provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

General:

• Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
• Bibliography of American Literature
• Early American Fiction Online
• Early English Books Online
• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
• Eighteenth Century Collection Online
• Eighteenth Century Fiction
• English Prose Drama
• English Short Title Catalogue
• English Verse Drama
• Humanities International Complete
• Literary Index (Gale)
• Literary Reference Center
• MLA International Bibliography
• Abstracts of English Studies [print]: (1958-) Annex Floor 1A PE25 .A16
• Humanities Index [print]: (1974-1996) Annex Floor 1A AI3 .H8
• Essay and General Literature Index [print]: (1900-) Annex Floor 1A AI3 .E752

Poetry:

• African American Poetry
• American Poetry
• English Poetry
• Literary Reference Center

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

General:

• Contemporary Literary Criticism PN771 .C59 (cumulative index in last volume)
• MLA Bibliography, (1921- 1993) Z 7006 .M64
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism PN761 .N5 (cumulative index in last volume)
• Oxford Reference Books Online: Literature Collection
  12 online reference books relevant to the study of literature. Search all at once, or select one book to search.
• Oxford Reference Books Online: English Language Collection
  11 online reference books on English grammar, etymology and usage. Search all at once, or select one book to search.
• Oxford Reference Books Online: English Dictionaries & Thesauruses
  

Poetry:

• Critical Survey of Poetry. English Language Series  PR502 .C85 1992
• The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English  PR601 .O9 1994
• Nineteenth-Century French Poets  PQ433 .N56 1999
• Contemporary American Women Poets: an A-to-Z Guide PS151 .C665 2002
• American Poets, (1880-1945)  PS324 .A44 1987

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

General:

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature and Books
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Internet Public Library: Literary Critcism
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Women Romantic-Era Writers
• Women Writers Online

Poetry:

• Librarians' Index to the Internet: Poetry Page
• Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets
• American Verse Project from University of Michigan
• British Women Romantic Poets from UC Davis
• The Walt Whitman Archive from the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.