Each article includes a selected bibliography. Garland, Henry and Mary Garland. The Oxford Companion to German Literature . Oxford UP, 1986. Spans the period from c. 800 to the early 1970's, and the aim has been to cover in a reasonably representative way every period of the literature of each German-speaking country.
Entries vary in length from a few lines to a page, and are arranged in alphabetical order.
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism . Gale, 1981- . Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism presents significant passages from published criticism on authors who died between 1800 and 1900. Included are a wide variety of genres and nationalities, although criticism of articles and books which have not been translated into English are not included. The work is designed to give students of that period an introduction to the authors of the period and to the most significant commentators on these authors.