Biographies and criticism of authors, playwrights, journalists, and scriptwriters published in English from 1900 to today.

Searchable online reference books such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and quotation books in many subject areas.

Contains full text from reference works and literary journals including plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, author interviews, and classic texts.

Online version of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC), Drama Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism sets. Collects critical writing about literary works/authors.

Author biographies, work overviews, literary criticism and bibliographies.

A comprehensive analysis of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. (Free website.)

Current, online version of the definitive dictionary of the English language. Traces the evolution of a word over time.

Oxford encyclopedia covering the 5th to the 15th century.

350 essays on American literary history from the 1600s to the present; essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, major works, literary movements, periods, and themes.

History of literature in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin)– individual authors and particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions.

Encyclopedia covering children’s literature, international in scope.

Classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications on the art of persuasion.

Encyclopedia covering the social, political and religious changes of the Reformation and the sixteenth century.