Resource Guide:
Classics of Western Literature

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
• Dante Dartmouth Project
• Perseus
• The Beazley Archive
• Greek Mythology Link
• We Could Be Heroes
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• The John Milton Reading Room

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Literature and history
• Literature and folklore
• Literature and mythology
• Homer
• Sophocles
• Greek drama (Tragedy)
• Virgil
• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Milton, John, 1608-1674

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MLA
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Oxford English Dictionary

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Journal of Hellenic Religion
• Proceedings of the Virgil Society
• Dante Studies
• Annual Reports of the Dante Society
• Shakespeare Quarterly
• Shakespeare Studies
• Milton Quarterly
• Milton Review

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.