Use the search box below to find biographical information on an author and a collection of extensive critical analysis of their work. You can also search on "Named Work" for a specific poem, novel or play.
Includes the following Gale reference series: Children's Literature Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, & Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Digital Manuscripts can provide insight into a writer's process. Manuscript collections can often be found by Googling the author's name and the phrase "digital manuscripts."
Emily Dickinson manuscript excerpt, poem #935 "As imperceptibly as grief"
Amherst College, Emily Dickinson Collection
Tomlinson Library has registered our journal holdings with Google Scholar. After setting up full text linking for CMU (see tab above), you can search by title, and Google Scholar will link you to the full text of articles available through our databases.
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Google Scholar can be used to search on a topic, but it is especially effective for tracking down a specific article. If the article is available in full text through the library databases, a link will be provided to the full text.