Poetry

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• Little Magazines in Hesburgh Library
  
  Coverage: 20th century American
  This is a list of many of the avant-garde magazines or literary reviews known as “little magazines” to which Notre Dame provides access. ... []

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• African-American poetry
  
  Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Usage info: Licensed for four simultaneous users. ... []
• Alexander Street literature
  
  A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. Includes the collections: Black Short Fiction and Folklore, Black Women Writers, Caribbean Literature, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and South and Southeast Asian Literature. ... []
• American poetry
  
  Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early 20th century and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Archivio della tradizione lirica
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ 4212 .A73 1997
  Searchable database of the works of 112 authors from Petrarch to Marino. Includes collections of 13th century rhyme and a representative collection of poets from the 13-14th centuries based on the collection Sonetti e Canzoni di diversi antichi autori toscani (Florence 1527). ... []
• Bardic Poetry Database/ Bunachar Fhiliocht na Sgol
  
  Catalogue of Irish bardic poetry, compiled by Dr. Katharine Simms and hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Bartleby.com: Great books online
  
  Provides a free-of-charge, full-text collection of selected literature, reference and verse. Includes works such as the Oxford Shakespeare, Columbia encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, the Harvard classics, Bartlett's familiar quotations, and Columbia gazetteer. ... []
• British Literary Manuscripts Online
  
  Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable. ... []
• Caribbean literature
  
  "a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. ... numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Carilda Oliver
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ 7390 .O38 C37 2004
  Presents her biography, chronology, poems, manuscripts, opinions and correspondence.
• Chaucer : the general prologue on CD-ROM
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868.P8 S65 2000
  "Contains transcripts, descriptions, and images of all 53 fifteenth-century manuscripts and early printed editions of The General Prologue. The texts of witnesses may be compared through full word-by-word collations in both original spelling and regularized form. Spelling databases permit the spelling of every grammatical form of each word to be examined in any manuscript, or across all manuscripts, for some 300,000 words in total. Sophisticated search tools, which make full use of SGML encoding, allow retrieval of words, phrases, and many textual features."--Container. ... []
• Chaucer, life and times
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1851 .P75 1995
  Includes the complete works of Chaucer with modern translations and glossary, critical commentary, historical information, extensive graphics, and audio clips in Middle English. ... []
• Columbia Granger's world of poetry
  
  Index to poetry, including full-text and excerpts of some poems. Contains the contents of: Columbia Granger's index to poetry in anthologies (eds. 8-12), Columbia Granger's index to poetry in collected and selected works, Classic hundred poems, Columbia Granger's index to African-American poetry, as well as new content not published previously in print. ... []
• Concordance de l'Occitan medieval
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
  Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic PC 3305 .R53 2001
  The Concordance of medieval Occitan (COM) brings together the corpus of texts extant in the language from the first attestation to those belonging to the end of the fifteenth century. This first CD-ROM contains the poetry of the troubadours, taken from critical editions. ... []
• Deutsche Literatur von Lessing bis Kafka
  
  Call Number: HESB GEN PT 41 .D48 1997
  Unabridged German language texts by 58 authors with biographies and bibliographical notes.
• Digital facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1601 .M85 2004
  Digitized version of "... the entire tenth century manuscript [of Anglo-Saxon poetry], a searchable transcription, translation, detailed commentary, and high resolution images of all the drawings and decorated initials."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Early English books online (see EEBO : Early English books online)
  
  Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. ... []
• EEBO : Early English books online
  
  Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Access info: Content presented as images online, or can be downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. No plugins required to view images online. ... []
• EEBO TCP: Early English books online - text creation partnership
  
  Subset of Early English books online. SGML/XML encoded with full text searching capabilities. 200-300 titles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP is to contain 25,000 texts. ... []
• Electronic Beowulf
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1580 .K47 1999
  Contains an image-based edition of Beowulf, the greatest Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Ms. Vitellius A. xv. ... []
• English drama
  
  Provides full text access to the two databases English verse drama and English prose drama, containing 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th to early 20th centuries. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• English poetry, second edition
  
  Contains more than 183,000 poems, comprising essentially the complete canon of poetry in English from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 sources, the collection represents the work of more than 2,700 poets. The main bibliographic source is the New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, 1969-1977. Also includes poetry written in English by authors from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Faber poetry library
  
  " ... contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active support of the publisher and the poets or estates."--About page. Usage info: Limited to 4 concurrent users. ... []
• Gallica
  
  Collection of electronic texts, images, animation and sound files of French literature, maintained by the Bibliotheque nationale de France. ... []
• Guillen
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ 6651 .L558 A563 2007
  Presents his biography, chronology, poems, manuscripts, opinions and correspondence.
• Guillen
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ 6651 .L558 A563 2002
  Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen's biography, chronology, poems, manuscripts, opinions and correspondence.
• Irish women poets of the Romantic period
  
  "includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. ... also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Italian Women Writers
  
  The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Our goal is to bring information on and texts by both famous and previously neglected Italian women writers to a wider audience of students, scholars, teachers, and the general public, and to preserve these often fragile texts for generations to come. ... []
• Jack Kerouac romnibus
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3521 .E735 Z633 1995
  Multimedia presentation of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author and poet, via text, photographs, graphics, sound, animation, and video; complete works and excerpted writings of Kerouac, archival materials, biographical information, interviews, and bebop music. ... []
• Leabhar mór - the Great Book of Gaelic
  
  An Leabhar Mór - the Great Book of Gaelic is an anthology composed of the work of poets, artists and calligraphers from Ireland and Scotland. The associated exhibition and selection of poems are on the website of the journal, Archipelago. The pages of the book may be viewed on the Leabhar Mór website. ... []
• LION, literature online
  
  A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users ... []
• Little Magazines in Hesburgh Library
  
  Coverage: 20th century American
  This is a list of many of the avant-garde magazines or literary reviews known as “little magazines” to which Notre Dame provides access. ... []
• Love Poetry of the Renaissance : Ronsard
  
  A selective, annotated bibliography of resources on French love poetry of the 16th century available in the University Libraries of Notre Dame. ... []
• Miguel Barnet : Premio Nacional de Literatura
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ7390.B3 A14 2001
• Pablo Armando Fernandez: premio nacional de literatura
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ 7390 .F4 P33 2003
• Piers Plowman electronic archive
  
  Call Number: HESB RES PR 2015 .P54 2000
  "The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman."--1994 Prospectus: Archive Goals. ... []
• PoetriaNova
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
  Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic PA 8122 .P638 2001
  A collection of medieval Latin poetry produced in Europe between the 7th and the 13th centuries. Query functions permit a consultation of archives comprising more than 900,000 verses; plus texts extending to earlier periods. It is primarily aimed at inter-textual searching. ... []
• Poetry in English: A Research Guide
  
  A list of electronic and print resources useful in locating poetry in English.
• Roberto Fernandez Retamar : Premio Nacional de Literatura
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PQ 7389 .F44 A14 2001
  Contains poems, interviews, opinion, photos, biography and bibliographies of the Cuban poet Robert Fernandez Retamar.
• Scottish women poets of the Romantic period
  
  Online full-text database of 18th and 19th century Scottish poetry by women authors, plus critical essays.
• Scrittori d'Italia Laterza
  
  Coverage: 1910-1987
  The website "Scrittori d'Italia" makes freely available online digital reproduction of texts representing the entire series published by Laterza publishing house, and bearing the same title. Tthe printed series ran to 179 texts which appeared - a few in several editions - between 1910 and 1987, year of the final publication. ... []
• Si ku quan shu
  
  The Siku Quanshu represents a massive heritage from thousands of years of Chinese civilization. Includes more than 3,000 works of literature, classics, history and philosophy. Electronic edition of the print Wenyuange edition, compiled 1773-1782. Fully searchable by keyword, author, title, subject. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user. Access info: Requires Internet Explorer 5 or higher version browser (does NOT work with Netscape) ... []
• Trobadors: concordanze della lirica trobadorica
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PC 3295 .D57 2001
• Twentieth century African-American poetry
  
  A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral textual images or illustrations. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Twentieth century English poetry
  
  Contains poetry of nearly 300 poets, including poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles, since 1900. When available, a poet's collected edition has been keyed. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Twentieth-century American poetry
  
  Full text of more than 50,000 poems from hundreds of important and influential American poets of the 20th century. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Victorian women writers project
  
  Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Access info: Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access. ... []
• W.B. Yeats collection (1885-1995)
  
  Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the Works of W.B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors) have been used. ... []
• Walt Whitman
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3200 .F97 1997
  Includes full text of New York University Press' scholarly ed. of The collected writings of Walt Whitman, a large selection of manuscripts from the Library of Congress' Feinberg and Thomas B. Harned collections, New York Public Library's Oscar Lion and Berg collections, facsimiles of editions of Leaves of grass published during Whitman's lifetime, Two rivulets, Drum taps, Sequel to drum taps, over 100 images of Whitman, an archival recording of Whitman's voice, and contemporary reviews of Whitmans's work. ... []
• Wife of Bath's prologue
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868 .W654 R63 1996
  Provides a transcription of all 58 15th-century witnesses to The wife of Bath's prologue, with word-by-word collation of the witnesses, digital images of all pages transcribed, transcriptions of glosses, descriptions of the witnesses, and spelling databases. ... []
• Women writers online
  
  Contains full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830. Also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. Has links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi. ... []
• World literature online (see Alexander Street literature)
  
  "... a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. ... features 14 collections and offers over 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels, along with more than 5,000 full-text plays and film scripts."--Home page. ... []
• World of Dante
  
  The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site. ... []
• 20th century African-American poetry (see Twentieth century African-American poetry)
  
  A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral textual images or illustrations. ... []
• 20th century American poetry (see Twentieth century American poetry)
  
  Full text of more than 50,000 poems from hundreds of important and influential American poets of the 20th century.
• 20th century English poetry (see Twentieth century English poetry)
  
  Contains poetry of nearly 300 poets, including poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles, since 1900. When available, a poet's collected edition has been keyed. ... []