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George Eliot "All meanings depend on the key of interpretation."
George Eliot

RW Emerson "There is properly no history, only biography."
RW Emerson

HD Throeau "Books are the treasured wealth of the world."
HD Thoreau

HL Mencken "Criticism is prejudice made plausable."
HL Mencken

"Biography lends to death a new terror."
Oscar Wilde

Philip Larkin "Books are a load of crap."
Philip Larkin

Articles from journals and books:
LION searches over 2 million records from the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) and almost 1 million from the Annual Bibliography of English Language and LIterature (ABELL). Coverage is from 1920 to the present. Subjects include literary criticism, linguistics, writing, and folklore. 180 journals supply full text.

Reference resources:
LION offers over 3,500 author biographies, as well as full-text access to reference works such as the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, and the Columbia Dictionary of Modern LIterary and Cultural Criticism.

Full-text literary works:
LION provides online full text (with Keyword searching) for over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama written between the eighth century and the present.

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