Smith College Libraries Class Guides - ENG365: Women in Romantic Literature

Facts About 19th Century Writers

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Call Number: ref PN 451 .D53
Encyclopedia of Romanticism
Call Number: ref DA 529 .E53 1992
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era
Call Number: ref NX 452.5 .R64 E53 2004
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Call Number: ref PR 19 .O95 2006
Oxford Companion to English Literature
Call Number: ref PR 19 .O94
Nineteenth Century British Women Writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
Call Number: ref PR 115 .N55 2000
Cambridge Collections Online
Mary Shelley Encyclopedia
Call Number: PR 5398 .A2 M67 2003

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Finding Books

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Name of AUTHOR - blake, william
THEME OR IDEA - death in literature; love in literature; nature in literature
English fiction 19th century history and criticism
English literature 19th century history and criticism
English poetry 19th century history and criticism
Romanticism england
Romanticism great britain

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Saving Time - Using Bibliographies

Literature of the Romantic Period
Call Number: ref PR 457 .L8 1998
English Romantic Poets
Call Number: ref PR 590 .E5 19856
Guide to British Poetry Explication: Vol. 3 - Restoration - Romanticism
Call Number: ref PR 311 .M34 1991 3
Poetry Explication
Call Number: ref PR 502 .K8 1980
Mary Shelley: an annotated bibliography
Call Number: Z 8814.95 .L94