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Primary Sources Research Guide

This guide gives information about primary sources and how to locate them in the Library Catalog, our databases, and external sites.

Where to Locate Primary Sources for Literature

Where to find primary sources - Literature

Here is a list of the kinds of resources that are considered "primary" for this discipline:

Novels

Poems

Short Stories

Letters

Diaries

Manuscripts

Autobiographies

Interviews with authors

Personal accounts

 

A few locations to search for these primary source from the EFSC A-Z List of Databases: 

Academic Search Complete

JSTOR

Lit Finder

Literary Reference Center Plus

Literary Sources

Literature Criticism Online

Literature Resource Center

 

Online poetry websites:

Academy of American Poets

Arts & Letters Daily

British Women Romantic Poets (from UC Davis)

First World War Poetry Archive

Poetry Archive

Poetry Foundation

 

Online short-story websites:

The Short Story Project

American Literature