The English Poetry Full-Text Database contains the full text of over 160,000 poems written in English by approximately 1,350 poets between the years 600 and 1900. You can search by poet's name, title, first line, any line, epigraph, dedication, notes, or source document title. You can search by poet's name, title, first line, any line, epigraph, dedication, notes, or source document title. You can search by playwright's name, title, spoken line, cast list information, play, genre, or epigraph. This search engine offers simultaneous searching of the WWW and a very large Special Collection of over 4,500 magazine, periodical and journal articles.
Articles are available full-text.
It indexes all links in each Web page full text, and features a very comprehensive index. It breaks down each search into a custom set of sub-categories to help the user manage results. The OED uses nearly 2.5 million quotations to illustrate the use and history of words in the English language. The Thesaurus of the English Language is a general-purpose thesaurus intended to help writers improve the quality and accuracy of their writing. By presenting a broad choice of synonyms, authors can find, compare, and select the words to express their ideas precisely.