American Literature Research Guide

Bloom's Literature Reference Center examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.

Literature Resource Center combines Gale Literary Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.

A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century.

This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets.

Poems from 1750-1900.

Poems written from 1650-1920.

A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house.

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Offers scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.