LibGuides: EAS2026 Desire and Power Library Research Guide: ProQuest One Literature / Literature Online

Using ProQuest One Literature / Literature Online

ProQuest One Literature is a useful resource for both primary and secondary research. It contains the full text of more than 500,000 works of poetry, drama and prose, as well as criticism and reference resources.

Use the tabs to help you get started with the resource.

ProQuest One Literature - Incorporating Literature Online This link opens in a new window Collection of 20th Century English Poetry, 20th Century Drama, 20th Century American Poetry literature, literary criticism, and reference works.

Enter your terms into the search box, e.g. metaphysical AND Donne.

Your results are displayed divided into content type.

For example, you would like to locate the works of John Donne.

Select the Author Pages teb from the Home page

Enter John Donne in the search box. Select "Donne, John, 1572-1631" which should be the first result.

For example, you are searching for texts written in the Elizabethan period.

Select Advanced Search
Select Primary Texts on the left side of the page.
Click on Look up literary period
Choose "Elizabethan Period, 1558-1603"

Explore the Literary periods for further options. For example, you could also search for texts within the Renaissance period.

ProQuest One Literature should also look for variant spellings to view how it does this

Select Advanced Search.
Select Primary Texts
Enter Jealousy in the search box.
Select Include Spelling Variants and Show Variants on Results Page
Click Search.

A list of texts will be displayed containing the variant spellings of jealousy. A list will also appear at the top of the page listing all the variant spellings.

For example, you are searching for biographical information on the works of John Donne.

Select: Advanced Search
Add John Donne to the search box
Select Reference Works as Content Type
Select Biography as Document Type

You will then be able to read the biography which should be the first result.

For example, you would like to hear John Donne's work read by other poets.

From the Main page scroll down to Audio & Video Collections.
Select Poets on Screen.
Search for John Donne
Click on "Death be not proud."

Or, you would like to listen to a Shakespearean Play.

From the Main page scroll down to Audio & Video Collections.
Select Shakespeare Audio Plays.
Under Browse specific issues select 2003 or search for the title.
Click on "Loves Labor Lost"

Here you can listed to the full play or select the relevant act.