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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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African-American poetry
   
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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.
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American poetry
   
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Link to LION home page
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Poetry in English: A Research Guide
 
A list of electronic and print resources useful in locating poetry in English.
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Scottish women poets of the Romantic period
   
Online full-text database of 18th and 19th century Scottish poetry by women authors, plus critical essays.
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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.
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Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
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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.
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Link to LION home page
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Twentieth-century American poetry
   
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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