Research Guides: Poetry: Key Poetry Resources

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Key Poetry Resources: Biography and Criticism

Gale Literature Resource Center
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Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Combines the core Gale Group literary databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Complements Literature Criticism Online.
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African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC
Literature Online
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Also known as LION. An array of literary databases (including the full text of poems, plays, and fiction), reference works (including bibliographies, encyclopedias, etc.), and links to other Web resources for the study of literature. The complete text of journal articles is available on the database for all or some of the journals indexed. Fully searchable texts of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature.
MLA International Bibliography
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Indexes worldwide publications on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, television, and theater from 1923 to the present. See also the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
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