Links to databases that allow you to search the contents of periodicals to identify articles on your topic. If the article you are looking for is not available at Reed, you can request it from Interlibrary loan.
Look for terms like:
Definitions:
Stand alone criticism: On shelf by original texts
Critical heritage: presents criticism from the time an author wrote a work.
Critical edition: Original text with historical context and bibliography.
All manuscripts and editions of Milton's works and all critical studies about his life and work.
Listed below are several databases to help you find older critical material. The most comprehensive source is Periodicals Index Online.
Early English Books Online is good for much older works since it covers 1473-1700.
The library has a number of important books of literary criticism and critical theory. If the call number starts with Ref, you can find the book in the Reference Room. Otherwise, the book will be in the regular stacks.
Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory by 
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory by 
Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism by 
Twentieth Century Literary Movements Dictionary by 
Reader's Guide to Literature in English by
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