Guide to English Language & Literature

Bibliographies

Included here are major online and print bibliographies that can be used to verify information about printed PRIMARY resources. To find SECONDARY materials see Indexes, Biographies, Criticism Anthologies, or other sections of this guide.

Online:

• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - Online Database.

An index of poetry in anthologies. An online version of the venerable Granger's series. Searchable by author, title, first line and other methods. Includes some fulltext poems.

• English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) - Online database.

ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies in libraries around the world. ESTC can also be used to find access points for materials in several microform sets owned by UTK Libraries, including Early English Books I and II, The Eighteenth Century, and the Thomason Tracts. See also: EEBO.

• Inter-Play - Online database.

An on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. "Inter-Play provides easy access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Approximately 14,400 locations are currently cited to plays in many languages."

• World Cat - Online database.

Over 36 million records. It describes books, journals, manuscripts, archives and other materials owned by libraries around the world. Updated daily.

Printed:

• Blanck, Jacob, comp. Bibliography of American Literature. Completed by Michael Winship and Virginia L. Smyers. New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1955-91.
  HODGES Reference PS88.B43 1955

Bibliography of literary works by 281 specific authors (all who died before 1931). Excludes periodical publications by the authors.

• British National Bibliography. London: The British Library, 1950-
  HODGES Bibliographic Alcove Z2001.B75

A current list of books and new periodicals published in Britain.

• Cook, Dorothy Elizabeth, comp. Short Story Index. New York, H. W. Wilson, 1953-
  HODGES Reference Counters PN3373.C66

Author, title, and subject index of short stories published in anthologies and periodicals, 1890-present. Includes annual supplement volumes.

• Evans, Charles. American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from the Genesis of Printing in 1639 down to and Including the Year 1820 [i.e., 1800]. Chicago: Privately printed, 1903-1959.
  HODGES Reference Z1215.E92
  Supplement (Bristol) HODGES Reference Z1215 .E92334
  See: Early American Imprints (microfiche)
  HODGES Microforms PS530.E37

An extensive and useful (but flawed) bibliography of early American imprints. Use the supplements to access a wider range of materials.

• The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
  HODGES Bibliographic Alcove Z881.A1U518

Author catalog of holdings in the Library of Congress and other libraries in North America. See also: WorldCat.

• Ottemiller, John H. Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections: An Author and Title Index to Plays Appearing in Collections Published between 1900 and 1985, 7th. ed. Metuchen, NY: Scarecrow Press, 1988.
  HODGES Stacks and Reference PN1655.O88 1988


• Pollard, Alfred William, and Gilbert Richard Redgrave, comps. A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland : and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640, 2nd. ed. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976-91.
  HODGES Reference D228.P64 1926 (1950)

An inventory of materials from the beginnings of British printing up to the beginning of the English Civil War.
See also: microfilm Early English Books I HODGES Microforms
See also: ESTC

• Watson, George, and I. R. Willison, eds. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969-1977.
  HODGES Stacks and Reference PR83.N4 1969

Extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literary works by and about British authors from medieval times to 1950. (A 3rd. edition is in preparation, but only one volume has been published as of 7/22/03.)

• Wing, Donald, comp. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700, 2nd. ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1982-98.
  HODGES Reference D246.W55 1994

Continuation of Pollard & Redgrave, covering English Civil War and Restoration time period.
See also: microfilm Early English Books II HODGES Microforms
See also: ESTC