Reference Resources for English Literature, with an emphasis on poetry

The Oxford English Dictionary Online
Codex and Computer (Library Resources I)
Information Retrieval (Library Resources II)

The student of English works with the niceties of meaning and presentation --with words and phrases and grammatical constructions in which writers have invested great care. The books below can be useful in analyzing and explicating texts:

Dictionaries
Etymological Resources
Concordances
Guides to Allusions
Phrases and Quotations
Themes and Motifs
Guides to Literature
History of Literature
Literature and Criticism
Poetry
Poets
Poetics
Biography
Bibliography
Short Story Explication

Electronic resources for the study of literature include several databases available via Liberty login:

MLA Bibliography
Humanities Index
Arts and Humanities Search

(The Essay and General Literature Index may also be available by September)

Some other random bits and pieces:

Peters Hunting the Snark