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- You can find reference books such as those below at Bedford
Central Library. Other libraries
have smaller selections
General
- Dictionaries of literature and literary terms
- Dictionaries of fictional characters, some of which suggest real-life
characters on which fictional ones were based, for example
Chambers dictionary of literary characters
- Dictionaries of pseudonyms. You can look up an author's professional name
and find her/his real name or look up an author's real name and find which
professional name he or she uses
- Companions to English, Scottish and Welsh
literature, such as the
Oxford companion to English literature. You can look up classic authors,
literary works and literary topics and find concise authoritative summaries
- Companions to the literature of other English-speaking countries, including
the USA, Canada, Australia, and the Caribbean
- Guides to literature in other modern languages,
including French, German, Spanish, Italian and the Scandinavian, Slav and Indic
languages
- Guides to Latin and Ancient Greek literature, such as the
Oxford companion to classical literature
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Writers' and artists' yearbook
An annual guide to organisations, publishers and other essential information for
authors and artists
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Dictionaries of quotations
See also the separate Quotations page
- Anthologies arranged by genre, including light or comic verse, ballads, romantic verse,
war poetry, satirical, narrative or children's verse
- Anthologies arranged by period, for example 16th, 17th,
or 18th century verse
- Anthologies arranged by place, including Scottish, Caribbean and African
poetry
- Complete works or extensive selections from the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Tennyson
-
Columbia Granger's index to poetry
(earlier editions are called Granger's index to poetry).
This is a major aid to tracking down poems. You can look up the first line or name of a
poem and find out the poet, the name of the poem and details of anthologies that
include it. You can also use the book's detailed subject index to find poems on
specific subjects. The poems are also indexed by poet's name
Drama
- Complete plays of
Shakespeare
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'Harvard concordance to Shakespeare'. This enables you to look up any word from Shakespeare and find exactly where it occurs
in his writings
- Directories of dramatists
Further information
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