Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature*
English Literature to 1785*
English Literature from 1785*
Masterpieces of World Literature*
in the General Reference Center Gold

Complete works of Shakespeare
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

The Modern English Collection:
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations
from 1500 to the present.
http://etext.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

Shakespeare Concordance
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html
Search for the occurrence of a word or phrase in the Bard's works.

St. James Contemporary Novelists*
in the Gale Virtual Reference Library

St. James Contemporary Poets*
in the Gale Virtual Reference Library

American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

IPL Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit