The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American to the major poets of the nineteenth century.

Collection of printed works providing insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond. Capturing voices of, by, for, and about African Americans.

Archive of documents about African American life from post-Civil War years to the beginning of Jim Crow. Includes works of individuals and organizations, works of fiction, poetry and drama.

Works by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.

Writings of Black dramatists from 1850 - present.

Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more.

Collection of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by Black women from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the African Diaspora.

Digital archive of magazines and journals from nineteenth century Britain and its colonies, with particular focus on Victorian age lifestyle publishing and the British Empire.

This searchable database lists information about Victorian (nineteenth century British) fiction, including serialization. You can also browse a list of authors, titles, publishers, years, genres (n...

Collection of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare, as presented on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Diaries and letters of British and Irish women from 1500-1900.

This database is searchable full text resource and contains approximately 500 journals from the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Topics covered include ...

The Online Edition presents a fully searchable version of the Print Edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, but it complements, develops, and vastly extends t...

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language. It complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100...

Multimedia collection designed to support literature and drama courses; contains playtexts, audio plays, streaming video, and ebooks from theatre publishers and companies.

This database includes the complete text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66. It also includes 24 separate contemporary printings o...

A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift.

Plays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century.

High-quality, downloadable digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, based on source texts taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions (using the same page numbers and layouts as in the Folger p...

Humanities journals, weekly magazines, and limited newspapers published in the UK and other English speaking countries.

Digital newspaper archive of the Illustrated London News from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003.

Digitized collection of printed ephemera (Bodleian Library in Oxford, England), documents various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Taking as its subject Victorian London, the content ranges from salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thor...

Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization which studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain from 1937 until the mid-1950s.

Collection of three Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a Bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

Collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s.

Annual yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions (1948-present), includes reviews of the year’s textual and critical studies and major British performances.

Archive documenting 200 productions (1997-2016) in the reconstructed Globe Theatre, including architectural plans, costume designs, prompt books, music, interviews, performance photographs, and more.

Multidisciplinary resource for Victorian studies and culture, with primary and secondary texts.

The Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within major Victorian periodicals and provides a bibliography for each contributor. (The vast majority of articles written for Victorian peri...

Bibliography of international Shakespeare scholarship including articles, books, chapters, dissertations, editions, adaptations, and digital projects.

Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) has assembled an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early ...

Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscr...

English Poetry, Second Edition contains 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th, and representing more than 2,700 poets.

lyrikline is an international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors...

This Encyclopedia assesses 106 national poetries, with coverage of every significant poetry tradition in the world. Updated for the times, gone are such entries as Negro poetry American; Afro-Ameri...

PennSound is a Web-based archive and distribution site of more than 1,500 digital recordings of poets and others reading and discussing poetry. There are interviews with poets and writers also. It ...

The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work easily and conveniently accessible. It contains multiple U.S. and foreign editions of ...

Collection of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by Black women from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the African Diaspora.

Diaries and letters of British and Irish women from 1500-1900.

This is a searchable list of names, variant names, and pseudonyms used by American women writers whose works are held in the William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, a non-circulatin...

Defining Gender contains some 50,000 images of original documents from five centuries of advice literature and related material, from diaries, advice and conduct books, as well as articles from med...

Unpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted mostthrough her letters. This XML-based archive brings together seventy-fou...

Everyday Life is a digital collection comprising thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th ...

Searchable collection of publications dating from 1543 to 1945 documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights.

Godey's Lady's Book, Parts I - IX (1830-1898) provides electronic access to issues of the lady’s fashion magazine from 1830-1989. Early issues of Goody’s Lady’s Book included fashion description an...

A collection of published and unpublished women's diaries and correspondence, drawn from more than 1,000 1,300 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conferenc...

Digitized collection of Queen Victoria's diaries, with full transcriptions and searching of the journal entries covering the period from the first diary entry in 1832 to her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840.

This release includes some 60 volumes from 47 poets. The critical and biographical essays for some poets will be added in a future release, as will selected criticism from printed works. In additio...

Full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.

Contains digitized images and sounds related to Africa studies contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Useful for finding primary sources.

Austrian Literature Online (ALO), despite its English-language title, is a German-language site offering digitizations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and cultural works from Au...

The dramatic, poetical and theoretical texts of Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).

The Bibliographie der deutschen Sprache- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) is a German-language periodical index and bibliography of other publications in all aspects of German language and literatu...

Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani is an Italian-language site featuring searchable texts (derived from older, public-domain editions) of writings in Italian by major literary authors. The site inclu...

The Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes features Renaissance titles from various European libraries. To search the French-language interface and see which titles are included, click on Fac-similés....

Works by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.

Collection of primarily French language journals in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Full-text, searchable database that includes books, journals and government publications documenting Canadian History.

Corpus of French-speaking literature from the Indian Ocean from the origins to the Independence (18th century - 1960).

The Dartmouth Dante Project contains searchable full-text versions of Dante's Commedia and of close to 50 commentaries on it from the 14th century to the present. A few files are in English; most a...

Bibliographic database of plays in sixteen Indian languages, published in India from the 1840s to the present.

The Decameron Web is an archive of information pertinent to the reading and studying of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It was assembled by students at Brown University under the direction of M. Ri...

This Dutch-language site, sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, offers literary texts (and some literary history) from the Dutch Mid...

Multimedia collection designed to support literature and drama courses; contains playtexts, audio plays, streaming video, and ebooks from theatre publishers and companies.

An Italian-language text archive of some 2400 texts of approximately 200 Italian poets from the beginnings of the literature through Dante. It is searchable by individual words and by poetic school...

German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. The German Studies Collection brings to...

The definitive, Weimar edition of the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), originally published between the years 1887 and 1919, together with separately-published supplements of Goethe's letters and conversations.

Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings is a free-access, Web-based resource developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison which complements the University of Iceland's Internet course Icelandi...

Italianemo (an acronym for "Italianistica nel mondo") analyzes and indexes articles in Italian Studies appearing in journals published in or after the year 2000. It has versions in Italian and in E...

A critical edition of the complete works of Franz Kafka (1883-1924).

Annotated bibliography of French literature, covering journal articles, books, and reviews, from 1956 to present.

H. P. Karr's Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition is a German-language bio-bibliography of over 120 German-speaking writers of mystery and detective fiction. The database includes ...

lyrikline is an international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors...

Perspecuitas is a German-language collection of articles, bibliographies, reviews, project announcements, and other scholarly material dealing with medieval German language, literature, and culture...

This scholarly site is devoted to the works of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). It contains searchable files of his writings in the original Italian (including the Petrocchi text of th...

Complete works of Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805), including his poetry and plays, the translations, minor prose works, historical and philosophical writings, letters to and from Schiller and the Conversations.

Digital version of the so-called Grosser Stuttgarter Ausgabe of writings by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. The works are searchable once downloaded via the "DFG-viewer" (click on "ganzes Werk...

This cooperative project of Cologne University, Cologne University and Municipal Library, and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, has as its aim the digitalization of incunables, representing bo...

An ongoing German-language bibliography of published scholarship on the German literary and scientific author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, this continues Siegfried Seifert's printed Goethe-Bibliogra...

The World of Dante offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno. This project is designed to appeal to the different purposes of a wide range of readers, not simply those with schol...

CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, dissertations from outside of the U.S., with content from Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.

The National Yiddish Book Center is proud to offer online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, f...

A standard resource that offers articles on the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to today.

Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. This site includes an invitation to other libraries to submit manuscripts for digitization for Jewish c...

Ongoing Yiddish language bibliographical project that records the contents of nearly 1000 periodicals published worldwide from 1862 onward.

Digitized collection of Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe, from 16th century to early 20th century.

The Jewish National and University Library is proud to announce the first stage of a project to digitize rare and out-of-print monographs from its collection. The aim of this project is to make the...

A general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly)

Yiddish Sources is a portal for Yiddish and Yiddish Studies and offers up to date and comprehensive information including digitized collections. (Updates ongoing)

18thConnect is an aggregator of digital resources that provide a comprehensive research environment for scholars working on the literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy of the long eighte...

Digitized images of American magazines and journals published in the United States from 1740-1940.

This Danish-language guide to Danish literary authors offers multi-page entries on individual authors usually consisting of a brief overview, a biography, surveys of the author's literary activity,...

Extensive bibliography of composition and rhetoric resources, with information about rhetorical history, curriculum, literacy, course development, teaching of writing and communication styles.

Works by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.

An international bibliography in the field of book and library history, BHO "provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monogr...

Children's book reviews, reading lists, award information, and reader's advisory.

CompPile is a composition studies resource and an ongoing, searchable inventory of publications, blogs, new books and other resources in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical wri...

Archive of primary source materials related to criminal history, law, literature, and justice in nineteenth century Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand).

Machine-readable texts of classics of Danish literature ("literature" broadly defined; the collection includes the Gesta Danorum of the medieval Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and the Astronomia...

Audio clips, examples of use, and maps for regional American English.

Streaming video collection of films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources.

Provides digital access to a large part of the extensive correspondence of translator, critic, and poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, a significant figure in the German Romanticism movement. Currently t...

DRAM is an online music database offering on-demand, streaming access to an extensive and ever-growing catalog. A primary focus of the collection is the preservation and dissemination of hard-to-fi...

This collection contains digital editions of all titles in the Evans microform editions; more than 36,000 items and over 2,400,000 images, all with searchable OCR-created ASCII text. Both the digit...

Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles). You can search...

The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to cre...

Ebook collection traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, through full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Part of the Internet Archive, this comprehensive clearinghouse of ebooks and online texts is a vast collection of freely available, full text materials in many languages and from many sources. It c...

Full text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800 that were catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC).

The Eighteenth-Century Journals Portal provides access through a single interface to digitizations of selected English-language scholarly journals and newspapers from the years 1699-1835. At presen...

Searchable, browsable, and with more than 300 entries, this work provides a comprehensive overview of communication theories based in a variety of disciplines. Current descriptions of theories are ...

Plays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century.

The Essay and General Literature Index cites records contained in collections of essays and anthologies published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Topics in the humanities and social...

This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information. It contains non-English language comics and English language comics. It is...

Listings of domestic and foreign grants, literary awards, fellowships, and residencies available to American writers.

H-Net Reviews publishes reviews of books and multimedia materials. While the focus is on history, many reviews of current and contemporary topics are also included. Reviews are written by academic ...

Handrit.is formerly Saganet aka Sagnanet is an ongoing scholarly project that digitalizes, stores, and makes available, page by page, images of works of Old Icelandic literature in the original lan...

Harper's Magazine Archive provides searchable, full-text access to every issue of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the present. Harper's Magazine is a monthly general-interest magazine covering liter...

Based on the OED, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED (HTOED) contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present, allowing users to explore words connected in meaning throughout ...

Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin is a searchable database of scholarly editions of Latin verse written in Italy in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth-centuries. It...

EBSCO database of journal articles, books, essays, and reviews covering all aspects of the humanities, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought.

International database of 15th-century European imprints for nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501. Includes some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th ce...

The IZA is a searchable, full-text German-language archive of more than 800,000 newspaper and journal articles bearing on German literature (including film and theater) or on the German language. I...

The selected works compiled in the James Joyce Scholars' Collection (JJSC) all share two characteristics: 1) all the books are currently out-of-print and 2) they are valuable, perhaps indispensable...

The Liberation Journals Index is an analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques...

Multilayered grouping of digitized works in literature and the humanities, from medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical.

This annual publication contains reviews of the 200 most notable books published in the previous year. Works reviewed include both fiction and non-fiction, English-language and non-English-language...

A database of medieval manuscripts (mostly in Greek or Latin) from the German-speaking areas of Europe. (Updated regularly)

Directory journals and book series on literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and the history of printing and publishing.

The Modernist Journals Project provides fully-searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping those modes of literature and art that came to...

The New Yorker Archive provides access to every page of The New Yorker going back to its first issue in 1925. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting on national and internation...

NINES is a searchable and tagged site linking the material, cultural and literary archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. The NINES site is a sou...

Primary source collection of 19th century books, newspapers and periodicals, diaries and personal letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, and maps sourced from world libraries and archives.

NoveList is a source for assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It includes information on more than 150,000 titles, including authors, publication information, subjects, book...

Historical dictionary of the English language; includes present-day meanings, history of individual words, and usage through quotations from classic literature, film, scripts, and other sources.

The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books. Major parts of the si...

The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) is a searchable database of 22.3 million words (456,000 unique forms) in nearly 2000 texts in early Italian by medieval writers (mostly prior to 1375). Laid...

Reference tool of authoritative research guides on Literary and Critical Theory that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Online encyclopedia of everything relating to ancient Greece and Rome.

Archive of primary works, letters, journals, and notebooks from important philosophers and women writers, based on authoritative editions from academic and university publishers and organizations.

Digitized, full-image journal articles from hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, published from 1802 to 2000.

This is an ongoing bibliography of writings in Latin in all disciplines from the fourteenth century onward whose digitizations are freely available on the Web. Entries are arranged alphabetically b...

Article database for social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany.

The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books, and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs, and people can easily read, ...

Project Runeberg is a Swedish-centered, volunteer-based project that offers in HTML format more than 200 original-language classic works of Nordic literature, music, and the history of science, plu...

Digitized collection of Queen Victoria's diaries, with full transcriptions and searching of the journal entries covering the period from the first diary entry in 1832 to her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840.

Works about the Americas published around the world from 1476 to 1926, based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.

Digitized collection of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets from 1672-1737 held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, UK.

Prompt books for performances of Shakespeare’s plays between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, and supporting material for 17 selected plays. Documents are indexed by genre, country, theatre...

Index to more than 150,000 short stories from 1915 to 1983. Sources include periodicals and collections of short stories, with extensive subject indexing.

Streaming video collection of distinguished plays, video documentaries, and interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors.

This is a thesaurus of Old English, searchable by either modern or Old English terms. There is also a Browse feature. An Old English phrase search is included. TOE Online is an electronic version o...

Open access archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. Here are the works of artists alo...

Voltaire électronique is based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire. It includes all of Voltaire's literary works. Texts which have not yet been published i...

Collection of databases indexing scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, from journals, conference proceedings, symposia, and more. Includes citation network data.

Reference source covers all aspects of traditional cultures around the world as presented through myths, folktales, language, and traditions.

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,987 unedited, 900 fully edi...