LitFinder

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LitFinder, an incomparable resource, makes an author's original works available online. The works and citations available in LitFinder cover all time periods and are international in scope and chosen as most-studied and representative of the time period they represent. Each work meets standard, literary and K-12 curriculum lists from across the country. Literature fans and students will have quick access to:

• 126,500 full-text poems
• 850,000 additional poem citations
• 5,000 full-text stories
• 2,827 full-text essays from the 16th-20th centuries
• 1,000 full-text plays
• 1,835 full-text speeches
• Glossary of poetry terms
• Exploring Poetry essays
• 865 work explanations on the most-studied, contemporary poems and stories
• Author biographies
• Illustrations

Among LitFinder's works, patrons have access to works from nearly 27,000 women writers; 3,500 poems published for the first time in the last year; and a subject navigator that organizes more than 10,000 topics allowing users to browse broad subject areas then focus this inquiries.

All of the stories, speeches, essays and plays in LitFinder are full-text. And, the content in the database is updated four times a year, keeping it up-to-date and relevant to today's — and tomorrow's — researchers.