| (1900 - 2000) A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century. Includes more than 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of over 52,000 twentieth-century American poems. The works of 300 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song, are represented. |
| (1900 - 2000) A collection of over 44,000 poems published in England in the twentieth century; the works of 288 poets, including W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Benjamin Zephaniah, are represented. This collection includes works from the Faber Poetry Library. |
| (1750 - 1900) A collection of nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
| (1600 - 1900) A collection of more than 40,000 poems dating from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century; the works of over 200 American poets are represented. |
| (1700 to approx. 1960). Provides the full text of nearly 2,000 French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts; most are from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, although there are some medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century texts. Includes novels, verse, essays, correspondence, treatises, journalism, and theatrical texts; also includes Voltaire électronique, the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works, and a Provençal poetry database containing 38 texts in their original spellings. ARTFL is a cooperative project between the Institut National de la Langue Française of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. |
| | Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1980-2000) Indexes journal articles, books, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, conference proceedings, and other materials on Spanish language and literature as well as Hispanic studies. |
| | Bibliographic Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots Language, The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), which provides information about words from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth century, and The Scottish National Dictionary (SND), which covers words in use from the eighteenth century through the present day. |
| (1475-1700) Includes complete, digitized images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other materials published in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British North American from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. |
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(1701-1800) Contains the full text of 180,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century; also includes digital facsimiles of each of the works. |
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|  English Poetry (600-1900) | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (600 - 1900) A collection of over 165,000 English poems dating from the seventh century to the turn of the twentieth century. The works of more than 1,250 poets are represented. This collection includes the full text of nearly 4,500 printed sources. |
| (1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. |
| | Faber Poetry Library | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Covers the seventy year history of this major publishing house. |
| (1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM. |
| (1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women's studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. |
| (1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. |
| | JSTOR | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals. |
| | L'Année Philologique | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1959 to present) Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, and essays on all aspects of the Greco-Latin world, including literature, history, art, philosophy, religion, and archaeology. Covers the period from 500 BCE to 800 CE. International in scope. Also includes book reviews. To locate articles and books from earlier years, consult the print volumes of L'Année Philologique in the Little Library Reference collection.
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| (1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope. |
| | Project Muse | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of The Reference Guide to Short Fiction), edited by Thomas Riggs (2nd ed.; Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1999). Includes biographical and critical essays on 376 writers of short fiction; most are English-language writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also contains 403 essays on selected works. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of The Reference Guide to World Literature, edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast (3rd ed.; 2 vols.; Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003). Includes biographical and critical essays on important writers from around the world; also contains essays on selected literary works. |
| Provides digital images of 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays that were printed in quarto before 1642; allows you to view individual copies of the Quartos or compare one copy with another. Also includes background information and a glossary. A complete list of the British Library's 93 Quartos is also available. |
| | Short Story Index | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1915 to present) Indexes over 150,000 short stories in periodicals and edited collections; a helpful tool for locating particular short stories. |
| (1902-1990) Contains the Times Literary Supplement Index as well as page images from the TLS (1920-1990). Includes more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles. In addition, the Archive provides information about anonymous contributors to the TLS, information that does not appear in the print TLS Index. |
| Contains the full text of nearly all extant Greek texts from Homer (8th century B.C.E.) to 600 C.E. as well as many other Greek texts up to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 C.E. The online version contains over 10,000 works by over 3,500 authors.
Note: this database is accessible from three workstations in the Little Library; use is restricted to Davidson College students, faculty, and staff only. |
| | TOCS-IN | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1992 to present) Lists the tables of contents from 185 journals in the field of classics. Particularly useful for locating recent articles. Information about pre-1992 articles is being added to the database, as are articles in Festschriften and conference proceedings.
Note: Does not index electronic journals, although some links to full-text articles are included. |
| | Voltaire Électronique | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works. Based on the Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire; for titles that have not yet been published in the Complete Works, texts are drawn from original sources or the Moland edition of Voltaire's works (1877-1885). The database will be updated as additional volumes of the Oxford edition are published. Part of ARTFL, a cooperative project between the Institut National de la Langue Française of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. |
| | Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Indexes the prose contents of 43 periodicals for the dates indicated (including the years 1802-1823 for The Edinburgh Review). Identifies the writers of anonymous and pseudonymous works from this time period. |
| | Women Writers Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1400-1850) Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850. |
| | World Authors. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Biographical and critical information on major world writers. |
| (1971 to present) Searchable database containing over 75,000 annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Shakespeare. Also includes book reviews as well as reviews of theatrical productions, films, and audio recordings. |
