Access biographies of dead individuals, including non-Americans, from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.

Print. Reference stacks: PE 279 .B48 1982.

Lengthy essays on literary figures.

Biographical essays of important dead people from the British Isles. Includes artists, novelists, playwrights, poets, etc.

Covers the 12th century to the end of the 17th century. Print, 4 vols. Reference stacks: PE 2116 .C7.

A multidisciplinary collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other specialized reference sources.

An historical thesaurus covering virtually the entire vocabulary of the English language from its beginnings to the present. Print, 2 vols. Reference stacks: PE 1591 .H55 2009.

Provides access to three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

The authority on the English language.

Cover the history, theory, criticism, form, and genres of world poetry. Print. PN 1021 .N39 2012. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.

Subtitled: "designed partly on regional lines and partly on historical principles, and containing all the Scottish words known to be in use or to have been in use since c. 1700." Print, 10 vols. Reference collection: PE 2106 .S4.

Cross-searchable electronic version of several Gale series, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Something About the Author, and Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism.

Print. Reference stacks: PN 81 .J554 2005.

Print. PN 1022 .K38 1994. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.

Indexes poetry in anthologies published through June 3, 1993. Print. PN 1022 .C66 1994. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.

Indexes anthologies published through 2006. Print. PN 1022 .H39 2002. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.

Print. PN 1022 .C63 2004. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.

Bibliographies on various subjects including ones related to literary studies. A good starting point for research.

Provides hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, dramatic works, audio recordings, video content, biographies and essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.

Contains descriptive entries of useful pre-World Wide Web reference material. Print. Bizzell Stacks: PR 56 .M37 1990.

Chapters on different methods of literary research, when each might be appropriate, and important practitioners and theorists of each. Print. Bizzell Stacks, PR 56 .R43 2005.

Provides a narrative bibliography of work in the field of critical and cultural theory, recording significant debates and issues of interest in a broad field of research in the humanities and social sciences. Covers 1991 to the present.

Selective narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures. The online version has full text back to 1921.