English

Ref PN1021 .N39 2012
"Provides surveys of 106 national poetries; descriptions of poetic forms and genres...detailed explanations of the devices of prosody and rhetoric; and overviews of all major schools of poetry ancient and modern, Western and Eastern...provides balanced and comprehensive accounts of the major movements and issues in criticism and literary theory."

ANB offers biographies for more than 19,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the American nation.

Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors

Ref PE1625 .87 1989
Gives the meaning, pronunciation and history of over 500,000 words. The OED traces a word's usage through quotations from many sources from different time periods.