Research Guides: English Language & Literature: Full-text by Genre

Poetry Collections

African American Poetry (ProQuest Version)
African American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a comprehensive survey of the early history of African American poetry, from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to achieve national success and recognition.
American Poetry Database
Full-text access to the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. Includes works of more than 200 American poets along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry.
American Verse Project
Full-text electronic archive of selected volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
A collection of Middle English texts including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales & Troilus and Criseyde, Langland's Piers Plowman, Malory's Morte Darthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman, and many others.
Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry
This database of modern and contemporary African American poetry includes collected poems and individual volumes from all the major movements and schools of twentieth century African American poetry from 1902 to the present day.
Faber Poetry Library
This database contains the work of over 40 major poets from the Faber poetry list.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
W.B. Yeats Collection
The W. B. Yeats Collection database contains the major works of W. B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism, and fiction, collected in 22 volumes.
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The W. B. Yeats Collection database contains the major works of W. B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism, and fiction, collected in 22 volumes. A single edition of each work, usually the last known to have been approved by Yeats, has been included. However, both of the widely different versions of A Vision (1925 and 1937)have been included.
English Poetry, Second Edition (Chadwyck-Healey version)
English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of the original English Poetry collection with the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories.
Canadian Poetry
Canadian Poetry has been created and published in collaboration with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries. Containing more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets drawn from over 700 printed sources, many of them rare and inaccessible outside Canada, the collection comprises essentially the complete canon of English-language Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century up to the early twentieth.
Twentieth Century American Poets (Chadwyck-Healey version)
50,000 poems by over 300 poets. The major works of the modernist period. Includes items not available in DLPS version.
Twentieth Century American Poetry (DLPS version)
This database contains modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. It includes the works of most major poets of the twentieth century.
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This database contains modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. It includes the works of most major poets of the twentieth century, beginning with the traditionalists, continuing through the American modernists represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens, and moving onward to the contemporary poetry of America's 1990s. The broad coverage of Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes collected works and individual volumes of poetry from all of the major movements and schools of twentieth-century American poetry, including modernism, the New York School, the Chicago School, the Southern School, the Confessionals, the Beats and the Black Mountain poets.
Australian Poetry Library

Drama Collections

American Drama
An electronic collection of full-text American dramatic literature. The current release, Early American Drama to 1830, includes 389 plays published through 1839. (When complete, will contain 2,000 plays.)

American Drama 1714-1915 This link opens in a new window
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century, this is the largest electronic collection of American dramatic writing of its kind.

American Film Scripts Online
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) includes more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies from studios such as Warner Bros., Sony, RKO and MGM.In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays. Also included are detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
Black Drama: Second Edition
Contains 1,460 full text English plays ca. 1850-present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.
English Drama (Chadwyck-Healey version)
Contains contents of both 'English Prose Drama Database (DLPS version' and 'English Verse Drama Database (DLPS version)'
English Verse Drama
English Verse Drama contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
English Prose Drama Database
English Prose Drama contains more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.

Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment This link opens in a new window
Over 4700 plays published in the United States in the nineteenth century. Includes prompt books and manuscripts.
North American Indian Drama This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to 256 plays by 49 American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.

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