English Databases

Database Names and Publishers Description
Books & Authors (Gale) Books & Authors offers information on books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, explore genre fiction and essential non-fiction. Features a "What Do I Read Next?" collection with reviews and recommendations.
Gale Literary Sources (Gale) Gale Literary Sources brings together all of Gale's literary databases into one cross-searchable research and study environment. For researching authors and their works, literary movements or genres, or finding book reviews of bestsellers. Search across all of our library's Gale literary databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of expertly written work overviews.
Literature Criticism Online (Gale) An extensive compilation of literary commentary available with Literature Criticism Online, featuring centuries of analysis, including scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals, and tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
LitFinder (Gale) LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
ProQuest Learning: Literature (ProQuest/SIRS) Includes 3,000+ author biographies; 40 searchable full-text literature journals; full-text literary works; and other key criticism and reference sources.
World of Poetry (Granger's) The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin.