LibGuides: Literature: Databases & Ebooks

Helpful Databases and Ebooks for Literature and Literary Criticism

The databases below are recommended for your Literature classes. See Help with Databases for tutorials. To search all databases, visit the Resources tab on the library's homepage.

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Ebooks

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
History & literature eBooks, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
Academic Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
125,000 titles from leading university presses offering eBooks on a broad range of academic subjects.
Bloom's Literary Criticism eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 1,050 literary criticism ebooks from acclaimed publisher Bloom's featuring complete, curated coverage of the most studied authors and their works.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.
Salem Press Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Ebooks on a wide variety of subjects from Salem Press, including the authoritative Critical Insights and Critical Survey series, Criminal Justice System, Defining Documents series, Principles of Science, Principles of Sociology, Principles of Health, and the Magill's Medical Guide.

Literature Databases

Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theater and Cultural Studies.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
ProQuest Learning: Literature This link opens in a new window
Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews.

Poetry

English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry This link opens in a new window
62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Twentieth Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.