Contemporary Literary Criticism Ref PN771.C59
Compilation of critical essays from scholarly journals and review sources; covers authors from the middle of the 20th century to present.
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Ref PN771.G27
Compilation of critical essays from scholarly journals and review sources; covers authors active during first half of the 20th century.
Black Literary Criticism Ref PS153.N5B556 1991
Compilation of critical essays from scholarly journals and review sources.
American and British Poetry, a Guide to Criticism, 1925-78. Ref Z1231.P7A44 1984
Index to critical studies of specific poems.
American Poetry Explication Ref Z1231.P7G85
Index to critical studies of specific poems, covering American poetry from the Colonial period to modern times.
American Drama Criticism Ref Z1231.D7P3 (and supplements)
Index to critical studies of specific plays, listed by playwright.
Drama Criticism Ref Z1231.D7 C6
Two volumes, covering drama in all time periods from Greek and Roman to the twentieth century.
Twentieth Century Short Story Explication Ref Z5917.S5W35 1977 and supplements
Index to critical studies in scholarly journals and books, listed by short-story author.
Short Story Criticism Table 4
Compilation of critical material from scholarly journals and review sources.
International Dictionary of Theatre: Plays (vol. 1), Playwrights (vol. 2) Ref PN2035 .I49
Synopses, critical commentary, and lists of criticism.
Motion Picture Guide Ref PN1995.N346
Plot summaries and critical guide.
Variety's Film Reviews Ref PN1995.V34
Reproductions of reviews from the show-business newspaper Variety, from the early 1900's to present.
Film Review Annual Ref PN1995.F465
Critical reviews of major motion pictures.

Author Biographies

Dictionary of American Biography Ref E176.D542
Scholarly articles; includes American authors from all periods; supplements cover 20th century.

Dictionary of National Biography Ref DA28.D422
Scholarly articles; includes authors of Great Britain and Commonweath; supplements cover 20th century.

British Authors of the 19th Century Ref PR451.K8 1936
Brief biographical sketches.

British Authors Before 1800 Ref PR105.K9
Brief biographical sketches.

American Authors, 1600-1900 Ref PS21.K8 1938
Brief biographical sketches.

Contemporary Authors: Permanent Series Z1224.C6; First Revisions series Ref Z1224.C62; New Revision Series, Ref Z1224.C681; Autobiography Series, Ref Z1224.C682

Biographical sketches, commentary, list of works, and lists of critical sources.

Literary Terms

A Handbook to Literature Ref PN41 .H6 1992

Dictionary of World Literary Terms Ref PN41 .S5 1970

Poetry Handbook: a Dictionary of Terms Ref PN44.5 D4 1962

Databases-- links to databases available through Blackwell Library.

Literature Resources on the Web

English Literature - The web's most extensive compilation of sites for British and American literature; arranged by time period and genre; (a page from "The Voice of the Shuttle" humanities project at the University of California, Santa Barbara).

Internet Resources in British Literature - an extensive collection of links to full text and other information.

ASLE Online - information about and examples of eco-criticism; bibliographies of environmental literature; full text electronic archive (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment).

Online Literary Criticism Collection - direct links to scholarly studies, organized by literary author and period;some articles can be viewed directly while others must be purchased through an inexpensive document-delivery service (some of these articles can also be accessed for free in Blackwell Library).

Geoffrey Chaucer - information about Chaucer's life and times, critical studies, full-text of major works, and much more (from Harvard University).

The Electronic Canterbury Tales - links to full text of the Tales, including versions in Middle and modern English, plus historical information from primary sources; audio clips of readings in Middle English, and other useful features.

Shakespeare Web Resources (on this site)

Sonnet Central - an archive of English-language sonnets in full text, listed by literary author's names and by time period.

British Poetry, 1780-1910 - links to electronic full text of many major works (Universityof Virginia, Electronic Text Center).

Native American Literature - links to biographical and critical infomation, full text sources and other materials; searchable by author's name, title of work and tribe.

The Online Books Page - a collection of electronic texts and other book inforamtion (University of Pennsylvania).

Project Gutenberg - online texts of major literary works.

Bartelby.com - another collection of online texts featuring many important works of literature.

Subject Guide Home | Library Home

The librarian liaison to English is Kathryn Kalmanson,
kckalmanson@salisbury.edu | 410-543-6190