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Author Biographies - In-depth for 20,000 authors; shorter articles for 140,500 additional authors (Includes Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism)
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Literary Criticism: Full text of 100,000 essays
Reference Books: Full text for more than 1,000 literary reference books.
Journals: Full text for more than 400 literary magazines
Book reviews: Includes almost 600,000 full text reviews
Poetry: Full text for 57,000 poems from hundreds of sources. (Also includes the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.)
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Author interviews: Full text of 4,700 interviews