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64 AMERICAN POETRY: THE 19TH CENTURY. Presents over 1000 poems by 150 poets, including Dickenson, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Crane, African-American and Native-American poets. Includes 6 hours of audio excerpts. Based on the two volume anthology published by The Library of America.

63 COLUMBIA GRANGER'S WORLD OF POETRY, 1995. Indexes 135,000 poems in 700 anthologies and 70 collected works. Contains the full text of 10,000 out-of-copy- right poems and quotations from 7,500 poems in copyright. Can be searched by author, title, subject, category, first line, last line and keyword.

77 CRUCIBLE, THE. Text of the Arthur Miller play, plus videos, maps, original source documents, commentaries and a bibliography.

10 DISCLIT--AMERICAN AUTHORS. Biographical, critical and bibliographical information on 143 American authors; contains full text of the Twayne American Authors series, plus a bibliography of 100,000 items about these authors. [IBM version]

11 DISCLIT--BRITISH AUTHORS. Biographical, critical and bibliographical information on over 140 British authors; contains full text of the Twayne British Authors series, plus the OCLC Online Union Catalog bibliography of 100,000 items. [IBM version]

12 DISCOVERING AUTHORS. Bibliographic and critical information on 300 authors from all time periods, taken from the Gale literary criticism series: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, etc.

58 DISCOVERING AUTHORS MODULES (Version 2.0) Biographical, bibliographical and critical data on 1200 authors worldwide. Modules include: Most-Studied Authors; Poets; Dramatists; Novelists; Multicultural Authors. [IBM version]

68 DISCOVERING SHAKESPEARE. A look at Shakespeare's life and times, with synopses of his plays and poems.

66 IF MONKS HAD MACS. A "hearty stew" of interactive books, art and music. Includes: a look at the life and times of Henry David Thoreau, including the full text of 'Walden'; 500 pages of the Warren Report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the full text of the Scarlet Letter, Chesterton's The Man who was Thursday, and the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a'Kempis; a look at Breugel's painting "The Tower of Babel"; a history of the White Rose student anti-Nazi movement; a presentation of the work of 19th century American political cartoonist Thomas Nast; and much more.

49 MACBETH. A new edition of the text of the play, with 1500 annotations and a commentary; an entire performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company and clips from other performances; essays on the history and language of the play and Jacobean theater; a concordance and textual analysis; complete index of each character's role in the play.

57 POETRY IN MOTION. 24 poets, including Amiri Baraka, Charles Bukowski, Alan Ginsberg, Ntozake Shange and Gary Snyder read from their poetry and comment on them. Performance of the poems is accompanied by the written text.

69 POETRY IN MOTION II. Continues the pairing of written word and video performance of the works of 24 poets started with volume 1 (see above). Also includes 9 interviews with poets about their work. Poets include H. Adam, A. Baraka, T. Berrigan, C. Bukowski, S. Gray, P. Orlovsky, P. Whelan.

81 WORLD'S BEST POETRY ON CD. 2d ed. Anthology of world poetry, from antiquity to the present, emphasizing American and English poetry. Contains 20,000 full-text poems and 700 critical essays discussing the poets and their works.

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