Dictionaries and terminology

• Oxford English Dictionary
   
• A Dictionary of literary Symbols
• The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms
• A contemporary guide to literary terms: with strategies for writing essays about literature [print]
• A Glossary of Literary Terms
• A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory  [print]
• Literary movements for students: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literary movements
   
• For the specific monolingual and bilingual foreign-language dictionaries, see Foreign languages information resources.
• Persian keyboard

General World Literature encyclopedias

• Gale World Literature e-book collection
• Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature [print and online]
• Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20^th Century [print]
• Encyclopedia of World Writers, 1800 to Present (1880-2011) [print]
• Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to the Present (1900-2008) [print]
• Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present (1900-2008) [print]

Biographical information

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [print]
• Magill’s Survey of World Literature: Includes biographies of major writers outside the United States, accompanied by the analysis of the author's style, themes, and literary characteristics, as well as the profiles of the authors' major works.
• Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook [print]
• Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide [print]