Poetry

Bloom's Literature is a source for information on contemporary and classic writers from around the world. Bloom's offers information, research tools, and sources including e-books, images, timelines, and videos.

Gale Books and Authors is a book recommendation resource for readers of all ages, with information about fiction and non-fiction pulled from book lists dating back to the early 1900s.

Gale Literature is a multisearch interface bringing together 7 of the top literature databases from Gale, including Gale Literature Resource Center and Gale Literature Criticism.

Gale Literature Criticism brings together full-text and excerpts from critical essays on drama, poetry, and short stories representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres.

Gale Literature Resource Center provides access to author biographical information, work overviews, full-text literary criticism, and authoritative reviews on more than 130,000 published novelists in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.

Gale Power Search enables cross-searching of all Gale databases available to the MCC Library. Click "Select all" to deselect all databases and then click on the individual database to add them to the cross-search.

JSTOR is a digital library of archived and current issues of academic, peer-reviewed journals. The MCC Library subscribes to 9 multidisciplinary arts and sciences collections and a life sciences journal collection.

MLA International Bibliography is the Modern Language Associations definitive index for researching language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, composition, folklore, and film. Article citations are from journals, books, articles reprinted in book, series, and dissertations. This index is not full-text (citations only), but will link to the library's catalog, electronic book databases, and full text articles from Ebsco and other vendors, if available.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words in the English language - past and present - from across the English-speaking world. It traces the usage of words through quotations from traditional print sources, online publications, and established web sources. The current online version of the OED is derived from the printed second edition of 1989, which is in turn based on the original edition published 1884-1928.