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The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry provides access to full-text poems, citations, commentaries, biographies, and a poetry glossary. Includes selections of current and foreign language poems.

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This resource provides information on thousands of authors and their work across literary disciplines. Searchers will find:

• Plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
• Articles/essays of literary criticism and literary journals
• Author biographies and interviews
• Book reviews
• Classic and contemporary poems and short stories
• Classic texts

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Includes two reference works:

• Contemporary Literary Criticism provides critiques of key literary works as well as author biographies. 
• Drama Criticism contains biographical information about playwrights and critical opinions of plays.

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Salem Press offers online access to its print titles owned by Santa Clara County Library District.  Full-text versions of Salem Press history titles include:

• Great Lives in History: The Eighteenth Century
• Defining Documents in American History: Immigration & Immigrant Communities (1650-2016)

Full-text versions of Salem Press literary titles include:

• Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed - Reviews classics that continue to interest general readers and literary specialists, year after year.  
• Critical Surveys of Mythology and Folklore: World Mythology includes traditional literature from a broad range of regions and cultures.

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