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Citations to nearly 86,000 essays in over 7,000 printed anthologies and collections covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences dating as far back as 1985. (No full-text)

A comprehensive, full-text database of information from respected reference works, books, literary journals, and more, including author biographies, work overviews, and essays in literary criticism. Also includes poems and short stories. Comparable to Literature Resource Center. (Full text) Learn to Use Literary Reference Center

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This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.