LITERARY REFERENCE SOURCES

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations   (Boston: Little, Brown, 1901; New York: Bartleby.com, 1999); 9th ed. Searchable by author.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature. ( New York: Putnam, 1907-1921; New York: Bartleby.com, 2000.  (18 volumes)  Hypertext; searchable by chapter.  Excellent source for early 20th century views, and for non-twentieth century literature.

Canadian Encyclopedia (Bi-lingual, c2000)

Catholic Encyclopedia (the entire contents of the 1917 ed.)

Encyclopedia Mythica
    Mythology, folklore, and legend

The Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae
    Written by Gideon Burton of BYU; an online guide to rhetorical terms and usage based on classical and Renaissance usage

A Glossary of Literary Terms - Robert Harris 

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Iowa State University Play Concordances 
    Concordances for Candida (Shaw), Death of a Salesman (Miller), A Doll House (Ibsen), The Father (Strindberg), The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde), Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey), The Little Foxes (Hellman), 'night, Mother (Norman), A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)

The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary 
    A free resource, but constructed by literary scholars from institutions throughout the world.   .

Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
    Hal W. Hall ed; search produces bibliographical references only; useful for research.

The Web Concordances 
    Concordances to many of the works of Shelley, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus software to create concordances.