Research Guides: English: Start Here

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Vermeer. Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (detail). Oil on canvas. 1657–1659. Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany. ARTstor.

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Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new window
Find critical analysis of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, as well as biographies, bibliographies, and full text of some poems, stories, essays, plays, and speeches.
Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Includes Gale's Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism.
MLA Modern Language Association International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly materials published worldwide in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. From EBSCO.

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