English Language & Literature

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.

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.

This database includes the major prose fiction of the Romantic and Victorian periods, as well as many neglected or little-known works, most of them out-of-print or difficult to find. Nineteenth Century Fiction includes 250 complete works of prose fiction from the period 1781-1901, by writers from the British Isles.

Contains the full text of eleven major Shakespeare editions, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.