These resources include Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and more. Searchable catalog of manuscript collections held by U.S. libraries and archives. Searchable by person's name, organization's name, subject, geographic location, and more. Online Literary Criticism Collection Browse by author's last name, title, or time period for critical and biographical works on British and American authors and their works. Poets' Corner Over 4,000 works by over 500 poets along with suggestions for further reading since this site includes only works out of copyright or those whose authors have given permission for inclusion.
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Wired for Books Audio, video and text of modern and classic stories, plays, poems, essays, and author interviews. A Lexical Database for English Words are defined and grouped into various related sets of synonyms with definitions. Valuable to the casual user as a powerful thesaurus and dictionary, but also to the researcher as a freely available lexical database. Winners Listings for the American Book Award, Booker Prize, National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize, etc., etc. Booknotes are available 45 days after the airing of the program along with other information.