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Kenyon's one-stop search tool, K·Search, is a great place tool to use if you have a particular author or title to search for; it's also a good place to start a general search for scholarly and peer-reviewed materials.
To the left of your results list, you'll see options for filtering your results:
Reference tools such as biographies, bibliographies, and encyclopedias can provide useful overviews of a topic, a time period, a genre, or an author's life and works. These are general literature reference tools, but keep in mind that there are also many author- or subject-specific resources in the reference collection, and that it might be helpful to browse the PN (general literature), PR (English literature), or PS (American literature) call number ranges to see if your topic is represented in a specialized reference work.
Use these resources to find author biographies, critical essays, histories, and other general background information.
Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Archive of weekly BBC publication "The Listener" from 1929-1991. The Listener reproduced radio broadcasts and television programs in print and also discussed major literary and musical programs.
Encyclopedia containing profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics with coverage of English, American, Canadian, German, Russian and other literature.
Archive of documents relating to the history of printing, publishing, bookbinding, and bookselling dating from 1554-2007.
Information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames, including criticism, reviews, plot summaries, synopses, poems, and short stories.
Full Text available in PDF and HTML formats.
Historical dictionary of the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
An ebook guide containing records of the literary works of American writers from the American Revolution to 1930.