On-line Databases for Literature

A password is required for off-campus access to full text resources. DCCC Library patrons may obtain passwords in person, by phone 336.224.4727, or via emailing librarystaff@davidsonccc.edu.

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African-American Poetry [LITERATURE]
Provides access to nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


American Poetry [LITERATURE]
Provides access to over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

Critical Companion to Popular Contemporary Writers [LITERATURE]
Provides in-depth analysis of current, best-selling fiction providing details about the complexities of these carefully selected titles.

English Poetry [LITERATURE]
Provides access to over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 English poets dating from 600 to 1900.

Faber Poetry Library [LITERATURE]
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century including Seamus Heaney, T.S. Elliot, and Sylvia Plath.

Gale Literature Resource Center [LITERATURE]
Provides biographical information and literary criticism on more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

Literature in Context [LITERATURE]
Provide background on famous books.

Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry [LITERATURE]
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry [LITERATURE]
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry [LITERATURE]
Containing tens of thousands of works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.

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