It draws from over 1,300 sources with over 200,000 records and is updated weekly. A special feature is the ability to search footnotes and citations. This is the catalog of the French National Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Searchable in French by author, title, or subject. Combined searches by date, language, collection, document type, place of publication, ISBN, and ISSN are also available.
Many poems are available in full-text.
It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. References to poems by world authors are for English translations. Alternates general issues with special issues on single topics and individual writers. The electronic edition of the daily Paris newspaper, Le Monde . This is a major French daily.