Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- American National Biography OnlineAccess biographies of dead individuals, including non-Americans, from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
- Comprehensive Old-English DictionaryPrint. Reference stacks: PE 279 .B48 1982.
- Dictionary of Literary BiographyLengthy essays on literary figures.
- Dictionary of National Biography OnlineBiographical essays of important dead people from the British Isles. Includes artists, novelists, playwrights, poets, etc.
- Dictionary of the Older Scottish TongueCovers the 12th century to the end of the 17th century. Print, 4 vols. Reference stacks: PE 2116 .C7.
- Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English DictionaryAn 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.
- Middle English Compendium OnlineProvides 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.
- Oxford English DictionaryThe authority on the English language.
- Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed.Cover the history, theory, criticism, form, and genres of world poetry. Print. PN 1021 .N39 2012. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
- Scottish National DictionarySubtitled: "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.
Criticism and Theory
- Gale LiteratureCross-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.
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd ed.Print. Reference stacks: PN 81 .J554 2005.
Indexes and Bibliographies
- Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies, 2nd ed.Print. PN 1022 .K38 1994. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
- Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, 10th ed.Indexes poetry in anthologies published through June 3, 1993. Print. PN 1022 .C66 1994. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
- Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, 13th ed.Indexes anthologies published through 2006. Print. PN 1022 .H39 2002. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
- Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, 2nd ed.Print. PN 1022 .C63 2004. Bizzell Stacks, 3rd floor.
- Oxford Bibliographies OnlineBibliographies on various subjects including ones related to literary studies. A good starting point for research.
- Poetry & Short Story Reference CenterProvides 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.
- A Reference Guide for English StudiesContains descriptive entries of useful pre-World Wide Web reference material. Print. Bizzell Stacks: PR 56 .M37 1990.
- Research Methods for English StudiesChapters 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.
- The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory OnlineProvides 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.
- The Year's Work in English Studies OnlineSelective narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures. The online version has full text back to 1921.