Selected  literature databases Chadwyck-Healey have been purchased by Libraries Connect Ohio for all Ohio citizens. The resource provides full text of many works of literature studied in Ohio schools.

American Poetry

Over 40,000 poems from more than 200 American poets, American Poetry is a matchless resource for teachers and researchers of American literature. In a single database it brings together the complete works of all major poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier. It also covers many less familiar names. The broad coverage of American poetry, offers a more complete context for research in American poetry than ever before.

An eminent editorial advisory board selected the authors and editions for inclusion in American poetry. It used as its principal bibliographic source, the Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press, 1955-1991, and supplemented this with additional poets to provide a more thorough and rounded collection. The complete text of each poem is included. Any accompanying text written by the original author and forming an integral part of the work, such as notes, dedications, and prefaces to individual poems, is also generally included.

English Poetry

More than 175,000 poems by over 1,400 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from 600 to 1900, English Poetry offers an incomparable representation of literary heritages of British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries, and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last 30 years.

Among the categories of the material are:

Important poetry by authors such as George Eliot, Walter Scott, Nahum Tate, Daniel Defoe, John Henry Newman, and others who are not best known for their work in other genres.

Works by women authors who have recently become the subject of renewed scholarly attention including Mary Alcock, Mary Leapor, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Hunter, Mary Hays, Maria Jane Jewsbury and more as well as writers of English poetry who were not English by birth. This category includes poets writing in former colonial or commonwealth countries such as India, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Bible in English

Twenty-one versions of the Bible. The Bible in English contains different versions of the English Bible from the 10^th to the 20^th century, including 13 full Bibles, five New Testament texts, two versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale’s translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament.

For scholars of English literature, particular attention has been given to the Renaissance period. All the most significant texts from Tyndale to the King James Bible appear. For the researchers in the development of the English language, texts from the whole chronological range are included, with particular attention to those versions that most closely represent the contemporary state of the language. For biblical and theological scholars, texts from the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and non-conformist traditions are represented. Subscribers can search across all versions, a selection of them, or within a single version, and display different versions of the same text on screen at the same time for the ease of comparison.

African-American Poetry 1760-1900

Access nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets. African American Poetry, 1760-1900, is an invaluable resource not only for literary scholars, but for researchers in black studies, linguistics, women’s studies, the black literary heritage and comparative studies.

The collections offers unique insights into the creative mind and reflects the conditions of early America and the role of black American’s during the 18^th and 19^th centuries. The poetry explores a multitude of topics, including abolition, children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, political issues, prejudice and slavery.

The poets are among those in the William French, et al., bibliography, including Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

English Drama (1280 - 1915)

A collection of works composed of two segments – English Prose Drama and English Verse Drama

-- Segment 1 – English Prose Drama

English Prose Drama contains more than 1600 plays by more than 350 authors from the Renaissance to the end of the 19^th century. As with English Verse Drama, the bibliographic basis is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, CUP 1969-72 (NCBEL). The database includes the works of all writers of prose drama listed in NCBEL and principally active before 1900. Editions chosen are usually contemporary with their authors. The entire text of each drama is included with any accompanying text written by the author and forming an integral part of the work. Scholars of English literature and language can now apply their research to the full spectrum of prose drama covering a chronological period of more than 450 years. As a teaching resource, English Prose Drama offers new opportunities for the study of some of the greatest literature in the language, as well as of the plays of many lesser-known writers, whose work is made readily accessible for the first time. English Prose Drama is the only collection of historical texts of English prose drama currently available on CD-ROM or the Internet and is the largest collection in any format

-- Segment 2 – English Verse Drama

English Verse Drama contains more than 2,200 works by over 50 named authors and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13^th century, through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, to the end of the 19^th century. It provided a fuller context than ever before for the historical and linguistic study of English literature. The bibliographic basis for English Verse Drama is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, CUP 1969-72 (NCBEL). The database includes the works of all writers of verse drama listed in NCBEL and principally active before 1900. Editions chosen are usually contemporary with their authors. Masques and sort dramatic pieces written primarily in verse, selected translations, works written for children, and numerous adaptations are included

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

The complete text of 11 major editions and more than 100 adaptations from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66; 24 separate contemporary printings of individual plays; selected apocrypha and related works; and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the 17^th, 18^th and 19^th centuries.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains the First Folio of 1623 and the most important of the original quarto printings of individual plays, which between them are the focus of so much of the textual debate surrounding Shakespeare.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare is also a historical archive of Shakespeare editing. The major 18^th and 19^th century editions are included, providing a history of the scholarly foundations of the modern Shakespeare text.

A wide selection of theater adaptations enables further comparative studies. Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare includes the whole of Bell’s Actiting Edition (1774) of the plays and poems and almost 100 adaptations of individual plays by writers such as John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Colley Cibber and John Kemble

Eighteenth Century Fiction

The only collection of 18^th century fiction currently available in electronic form, Eighteenth-Century Fiction contains a selection of 96 works in English prose from the period 1700-1780 by writers from the British Isles. All of the most widely studied texts are in the database, alongside others long neglected or unavailable. The complete text of each work is included. First editions have been used unless considered unreliable. Female authors are strongly represented and searches may be limited by gender. Original images are included are instantly accessible from the relevant point in the text. Tristram Shandy has been scanned in its entirety, to capture all of its idiosyncrasies. The scanned version of its first London edition is linked to the keyed version, so the corresponding pages can be displayed side by side for ease of comparison. All images can be printed.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry

A comprehensive source of English poetry that contains over 44,000 poems by 288 poets, it is a new database of writing in English and by far the largest electronic anthology of its kind. It provides an unprecedented overview of poetry written in the 20^th century by both established and emerging writers. Incorporating the Modern Poetry Collection and the Faber Poetry Library, it features many canonical poets as well as those from diverse international backgrounds. The collection is an ideal tool for studying the development and current state of 20^th century poetry.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry contains over 44,000 poems by 288 poets taken from the poetry list of Faber and Faber, Anvil Press Poetry, Cancanet, Enitharmon, The Oxford Poets series, Penguin and many more. Among the poets represented in the collection are W.B Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Benjamin Zephaniah. The complete text of each poem is included, and any integral images are also scanned. Introductions and prefaces to the volumes are included, as are all notes and any prose sections.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Broad range of works by American poets, Twentieth-Century American Poetry forms part of the largest electronic collection of American poetry of this century. It covers the works of over 316 poets including more than 52,000 poems. Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes the works of most major poets of the 20^th century, beginning with the traditionalists; continuing through the American modernists, represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens; and moving onward to the contemporary poetry of America’s 1990’s. The broad coverage of Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes collected works and individual volumes of poetry from all of the major movements and schools of the 20^th century American poetry, including the modern movement, the New School, the Chicago School, and the Southern School, the Confessionals, the Beats, and the Black Mountain poets.

Among the poets included are Michael Anania, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsburg, Michael S. Harper, Edwin Honig, David Ignatow, Robinson Jeffers, Denis Levertov, Audre Lorde, Philip Levine, Josephine, Miles, Charles Olson, Theodore Roethke, Edna St. Vincent Millary, Slyvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Karl Shapiro, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, James Wright and Adrienne Rich.

Twentieth-Century African American Poetry

The full text of 10,000 poems by more than 70 poets, the database of Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry documents the unique voices of this century’s critically acclaimed African-American poets. The collection opens the door to literary scholarship by providing access to the full text of 10,000 poems by more than 70 poets. Works by poets like Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes and Rita Dove enrich the collection, as well as emerging poets who will shape a new era of poetry. Biographical profiles accompany each poet’s work, and the complete database can be searched by a number of fields, including keyword, first line of title keyword and poet name.

American Drama

The largest electronic collection of full-text American dramatic literature from the beginning of the American theater to the present day, American Drama comprises one of the largest electronic collections of full-text American plays from the colonial period to the end of this century.

When finished, the database will feature the complete texts of more than 2000 plays written by American dramatists. Currently, it contains more than 700 plays from over 300 dramatists.

American Drama is the only electronic collection to bring together, in fully searchable electronic format, such an extensive compilation of American dramatic literature. The collection will include works such as Thomas Godfrey’s the Prince of Parthia, the first American play to be performed on an American state; George Aiken’s stage adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the most popular stage production of the 19^th century; and plays by 20^th century playwrights. American Drama covers three centuries of rare and modern dramatic works that together have formed the internationally recognized voice that is American theater.

Early American Fiction

Four hundred forty titles written before 1850 by 80 authors of novels and short stories, Early American Fiction is the only large-scale collection of early American fiction currently available in electronic form. It has been compiled specifically to support a wide range of research and pedagogy needs. The ability to search across the collection facilitates close reading of the texts, and the ability to cluster together famous with lesser-known works provides insights into both. Cross-searchability with the other full-text literary content in Literature Online introduces a further dimension to research into prose writing in English.

Early American Fiction includes the full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stores written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. Well-known works by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper are included alongside many works by lesser-known writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Two standard bibliographies, Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) and Lyle H. Wright’s American Fiction 1774-1850 have been used to define the project. In total 220 titles in 583 volumes by 80 authors make up the database. Full-color digital photographs of each page of the text are available, enables scholars to explore aspects of the physicality of the books – their illustrations, typography, binds, design and construction.