Literature & Poetry

Quotations | Poetry | Plays | Literature

Quotations

Bartlett’s Book of Familiar Quotations Passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources. Uses the tenth edition. Searchable by keyword or alphabetical by author and features over 11,000 quotations.

Poetry

Modern American Poetry MAPS is a Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) which includes analyses of poems, biographical information, historical background, book reviews and more.

LitFinder Find a poem by keyword, subject, poet and more. Many poems are full-text, but you may only find a citation with what books contain the poem. Also contains single author works and thousands of short stories. Remote user access.

Plays

Inter-Play Index 18,000 plus citations to plays not indexed in standard print sources, such as H.W. Wilson's Play Index and Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections. Sources are from late 1800's to the present. Searchable by play title and playwright.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet A guide to Shakespeare resources including biographical materials, his works in full-text, criticism, the Renaissance, and Elizabethan performance.

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Literature

Literature and Books The Librarians' Index to many topics such as book clubs, book reviews, desktop publishing, fiction by genre, literature by country, literary periods, publishing and more.

Literature by Time Period Provides links to literature Web sites including the time period of ancient Greek literature to 20^th century literature.

Online Library of Literature A collection of literary classics from 31 authors, such as Frank Baum, Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, Jack London, Lewis Carroll and more.

Online Literary Criticism Provides 4492 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, nationality, or literary period.

Project Bartleby Full text of works by major American, British and Australasian authors. Includes the inaugural addresses of all U.S. Presidents.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Author information, criticism and texts of novels, short stories and poetry from works written in English, including British, American, Australian, Irish, African and more. Spans medieval to contemporary literature.