Research Guides: ENGL: Classical to Early British Literature: Find Articles

Using the research databases

On this page, find resources that can help you find articles and primary texts.

Subject-Specific Databases

These databases feature in-depth research for subjects in literature. If your topic bridges to other disciplines, consider using a multidisciplinary database.

Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Provides lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. Collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides citations of journal articles and other resources in the discipline of English and other modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.

Find Primary Texts

Use these databases to find primary texts.

British Library: Anglo-Saxon Digitized Manuscripts
See images of original Old-English texts.
Early English Books Online
Provides digital images of the full text of almost all surviving books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700.
Global Medieval Sourcebook
The Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) is a free, open access, and open source teaching and research tool. It offers a flexible online display for the parallel viewing of medieval texts in their original language, in new English translations and in their digitized manuscript form.
Literature Online
A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 366 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.