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A CDS Library Guide
Books:
Reference Section:
British Writers. REF 820.0 BRI
Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6 th edition. REF 820.9 Oxf
Oxford Companion to English Literature, 3 rd edition. REF 820.3 Oxf
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. REF 820.9 SAM
Poetry for Students. REF 808.1 POE
Check the last volume's index for the name of your poet. You might also want to look at the subject theme index and the glossary.
Encyclopedia of World Biography. REF 920 ENC
British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. REF 920.003 Bri 1952
General reference resources:
Circulating Collection:
• To see books by your author in the library, search the CDS Online Catalog using your author's name as author .
• To see works about your author, search the CDS Online Catalog using your author's name as subject .
• You may also want to search romanticism as a subject.
What's WEB?
Materials listed with a WEB call number are listings of reliable , annotated Internet web sites that have been reviewed by teachers and librarians. You can connect directly from the catalog.
Click here for access.
• Essays, articles, and background information on people and topics from journals, reference books, and primary documents.
• To access: double click on the icon on the computer desktop; also available from your home with a password via the Internet. Ask the librarian for the password or pick up one of the slips of paper at the Circulation Desk.
• Search your author as a subject. Don't bother going to the “Literature” search screen. You'll retrieve more articles in a general search.
Oxford Reference Online
Click here for access.
Over 100 Oxford University Press reference books online, many of them literature resources
Ask at the library for the password.
Click here for access.
Don't forget the fine online resources scholarly articles and essays of literary criticism) brought to you by your public library (call your public library for the password!). See the “Finding Literary Criticism” helpsheet in the library for more information.
Online Resources :
Try these reliable, scholarly web sites before you go surfing.
Voice of the Shuttle Romanticism page : http://vos.ucsb.edu/bro w se.as p ?id=2750
Lots of links! THE place to begin for literary studies online. Problems loading this page? Go the Home page at http://vos.ucsb.edu / index.asp and choose Literature (in English) , then Romantics (on the right side of the page.
Bartleby.com – Great Books Online: http://www.bartleby.com/
“Includes thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain, as well as close to 100,000 quotations. Resources are carefully edited to ensure accuracy of data entry. A trustworthy place to locate classic works. Searchable and browsable.” – Review from The Librarian's Index to the Internet, www.lii.org
Romantic Links, Electronic Texts and Home Pages:
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~mgame r /Romantic/index.h t ml#authorlinks
Romantic Circles - http:// w ww.r c .u m d.edu/
"...devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts." Includes bibliographies, scholarly articles and criticism, conference information, WWW resources, and reviews. You can keyword search electronic texts.
Literary Resources – Romantic:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/ ~ jlynch / Lit/romantic.html
This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers
British Poetry 1780-1910 : Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Electronic Editions: Electronic Text Center :
http://etext . lib.vir g inia.edu/britpo.html
British Poetry 1780-1910 is an electronic library of hypertext and scholarly editions of books of Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry. Works are illustrated, annotated, or both. Among others, you will find S. T. Coleridge. The Coleridge Archive...... Wordsworth, William and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads...... John Keats, The Poetical Works. 1884. ..... Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete Poetical Works...... William Wordsworth. Complete Poetical Works.
Romanticism on the Net. http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Romanticism On the Net is an electronic, international, quarterly, peer-reviewed academic journal entirely devoted to Romantic Studies. “Apart from offering new articles and reviews in each new issue, the journal contains call for papers (Conferences), descriptions of other academic journals (Journals), and links to other web sites (Romantic Related Sites)."
Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth & Coleridge.
http://darkwing.uoregon . edu/~ r bear/b a llads.html
This site contains e-texts of the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Searchable and easy to use, this site includes all of the Lyrical Ballads and their footnotes.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1788-1824
http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/byron.html
“Selections from the letters and journals, other prose, and poetry of ‘the most prolific and controversial of the great English Romantic poets.' The full texts of Byron's Cain: a Mystery and E. H. Coleridge's biography of Byron (from the 1905 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica ), and a few links to both serious and fun Byron sites are also available.” – Review from The Librarian's Index to the Internet, www.lii.org
Romantic Circles
"...devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts." Includes bibliographies, scholarly articles and criticism, conference information, WWW resources, and reviews. You can keyword search electronic texts. – Review from The Librarian's Index to the Internet, www.lii.org
Web Concordances
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/newwics.htm
“Concordances to selected poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Ancyent Marinere," John Keats' odes of 1819, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience , Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads , and Gerard Manley Hopkins' Poems . Included is an in-depth explanation of what a concordance is. In addition, there are workbooks to be used in conjunction with the poems of Blake, Keats, and Coleridge. From the English Department, University of Dundee, Scotland.” – Review from The Librarian's Index to the Internet, www.lii.org
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