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Finding Primary Sources
If you are looking for digital versions of primary source literature not readily available in print, you may want to consider online databases. Haverford subscribes to several databases that contain digital images of primary source texts.
Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
An electronic version of the microfilm series, Early American Imprints provides access to digital images of over 37,000 works printed in American from 1639-1800. Covers the fields of history, philosophy, literature, religion, music, and more.
Early English books online.
Contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Includes books, pamphlets, manuscripts and newspapers.
Eighteenth Century collections online.
Offers full-text access to English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 including books, pamphlets, almanacs, Bibles and treatises. Subjects covered include history, geography, fine arts, medicine, science, literature, language, religion, philosophy and law. Significant collections of women writers, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare are also included.
Modern English Collection
Offers access to modern English language literature collections. Contains fiction,nonfiction, poetry, drama, letters,newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present. Covers publications from 1950-present.
Women writers online.
Offers a full-text collection of works in English by pre-victorian women writers. Covers 1400-1850.
Finding Shorter Works in Anthologies:
Tripod does not in most cases individually index such shorter literary works as poems, essays, plays, and speeches because they are printed in collections rather than as separate volumes. Publishers have prepared indexes to aid you in locating shorter works that have been collected in anthologies.
Short story index.
Publisher: New York H. W. Wilson.
By author title and subject, Cook indexes short stories published in collections.
Essay and general literature index.
Publisher: New York, H. W. Wilson Co.
By author, subject, and sometimes title, EGLI indexes essays collected in books. It is useful for locating critical essays on particular works or authors in books of general literary analysis, collected essays of a writer, and annual series, a body of literature that the MLA has not consistently indexed.
The Columbia Granger's index to poetry.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1990-
Granger's indexes poems in anthologies by title, first line, author, and subject. Successive editions do not entirely incorporate previous editions so that you must check all for a thorough search. Earlier editions are in Reference and the stacks
Play index.
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Co.
This chronological publication covers both individually published plays and plays in collections and indexes them by playwright, title, and subject.