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ABC-CLIO E-book CollectionCritical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors and Literature in Context series, which helps you understand the time period of our most classic works.
African-American PoetryPoems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
American PoetryFind poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.
English PoetryFind poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry LibraryFind poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Literary Reference CenterArticles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
MyiLibraryOnline books on a variety of topics including art, language learning, medical, health, history, and more.
MyiLibrary eAudio BooksDownloadable audio books on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with most iPods and WMA compatible MP3 players.
NC LIVE Video CollectionOnline videos from PBS including Ken Burns', Masterpiece Theater, Scientific American, American Experience, and more.
NetLibraryNearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
NoveListReaders' advisory service searchable by author, title, series name, and plot. Includes author read-alikes and lists of award-winners.
OAIsterCatalog of digital books, articles, audiofiles, images, and more.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry62 of the most important Apoets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Twentieth Century American PoetryA database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
Twentieth-Century English PoetryModernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.
WorldCatCatalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world.

Articles

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Literary Reference CenterArticles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
OAIsterCatalog of digital books, articles, audiofiles, images, and more.

Classics

TitleRecommended
ABC-CLIO E-book CollectionCritical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors and Literature in Context series, which helps you understand the time period of our most classic works.
Literary Reference CenterArticles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
MyiLibraryOnline books on a variety of topics including art, language learning, medical, health, history, and more.
MyiLibrary eAudio BooksDownloadable audio books on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with most iPods and WMA compatible MP3 players.

Criticism

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ABC-CLIO E-book CollectionCritical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors and Literature in Context series, which helps you understand the time period of our most classic works.
Literary Reference CenterArticles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
NetLibraryNearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.

eBooks

TitleRecommended
ABC-CLIO E-book CollectionCritical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors and Literature in Context series, which helps you understand the time period of our most classic works.
Literary Reference CenterArticles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
MyiLibraryOnline books on a variety of topics including art, language learning, medical, health, history, and more.
MyiLibrary eAudio BooksDownloadable audio books on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with most iPods and WMA compatible MP3 players.
NetLibraryNearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
OAIsterCatalog of digital books, articles, audiofiles, images, and more.
WorldCatCatalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world.

Poetry

TitleRecommended
African-American PoetryPoems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
American PoetryFind poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.
English PoetryFind poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry LibraryFind poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry62 of the most important Apoets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Twentieth Century American PoetryA database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
Twentieth-Century English PoetryModernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.

Videos

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NC LIVE Video CollectionOnline videos from PBS including Ken Burns', Masterpiece Theater, Scientific American, American Experience, and more.

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