Everett Library: QLC 320: Fairytales, Fantasy, and Folklore: Finding Articles

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Useful Subject Terms for Fairy Tales, Legends, & Myths:

Children's Stories
Fables
Fairy Tales
Folklore
Legends
Mythology
Psycholoanalysis & Fairy Tales
Symbolism in Fairy Tales

Finding Articles on Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales

American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
Provides links to over 1,100 free, full-text journals; many are peer-reviewed.
English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Covers the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
This digital collection is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, Aesop’s Fables, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and also contains the largest collection of Early American Juvenile books of any academic institution in the United States.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Online database of more than 200 journals and over 500 e-Books from nonprofit publishers.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.
Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry This link opens in a new window
62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.