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Poetry Criticism

Databases

The following databases contain a wealth of information on literary figures and their works:

Academic Search Premier
EBSCOHost's Academic Search Premier indexes magazine and journal articles, many of which are available full text. Over 300 literary journals are indexed. It is possible to search for peer-reviewed journal articles or for those that contain the full text of the article. It is also possible to search for articles from specific journals.

Dissertation Abstracts Online
Contains abstracts of dissertations on a wide range of academic subjects, including literature. 1861-present.

Digital Dissertations 

Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download.

Britannica Online
The electronic equivalent of the print encyclopedia with internet links.

Essay and General Literature Index
An index to essays that appear in collections focusing on the social sciences and the humanities.

Expanded Academic Index (ASAP)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.

Gale's Literature Resource Center
Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources, including Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.

GenderWatch
This is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Information on women authors and their books can be found here.

Granger's World of Poetry Online
Contains poetry citations, poems in full text, scholarly commentary on poems and poets, biographical and bibliographical information and a glossary of poetic terms.

JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.

Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time periods. LRC combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals, and more. Some articles available in full-text.

LION (Literature Online)
LION is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

MLA International Bibliography
This is the primary database for literary research and indexes scholarly articles in literary journals, books and dissertations. Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Check CONSULS to see if we own the publication cited.

New York Times Historical Archives
Contains the full-text of New York Times from 1851-to 2001 (rolling window).

Project Muse
Contains full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Contains biographical and critical essays on approximately 47 poets.

Wilson Select Plus
Indexes/abstracts articles in the humanities, including philosophy, folklore, linguistics, archeology, film, religion, and literature. Includes film and book reviews.