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Most recommended resource:

Gale Literature Resource Center

Most recommended resource:

Gale Literature Resource Center

Most recommended resource:

Ebook Central Academic and Public Library Complete

Most recommended resource:

Ebook Central Academic and Public Library Complete

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  • African American Poetry

    Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.

  • American Poetry

    Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.

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  • Ebook Central Academic and Public Library Complete

    Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.

  • eBooks on EBSCOhost

    Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.

  • English Poetry

    Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.

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  • Faber Poetry Library

    Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.

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  • Gale Ebooks

    Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

  • Gale Literary Sources

    Combines Literature Resource Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.

  • Gale Literature Resource Center

    Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

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  • HomeGrown Ebooks Collection

    Ebooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.

  • hoopla

    Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers that support apps. An app is available for download. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource.

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  • NoveList Plus

    A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.

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  • Open Library

    A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.

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  • ProQuest Learning: Literature

    Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.

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  • Twentieth-Century American Poetry

    A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.

  • Twentieth-Century African American Poetry

    62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.

  • Twentieth-Century English Poetry

    Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.

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