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Search by Word or Phrase

• Use the pull-down menu to specify where to search. The options depend on the collection(s) you are searching.

  Full Text: searches words anywhere within the chosen collection(s)

  Author: name of novelist or short story writer
  Character: name of character within a play
  First Line: words within first line of poem
  Playwright
  Poet
  Title: words in title of play, poem, novel, story, chapter, etc.

• Two or more words together are automatically searched as a phrase of adjacent words (no need to use quotation marks).

  land of freedom finds the exact phrase land of freedom

• Every word is searched, including and, or, not.

  romeo and juliet finds the exact phrase Romeo and Juliet

• Use asterisk at end of word stem to find plural forms and other variations.

  emancipat* finds emancipate, emancipation, emancipator, etc.

Basic Search: to look for a single word or phrase.

Search:	Finds:
Search in: Full Text Find: greek myth*	Greek myth (or myths, mythology, etc.) anywhere in the selected collection(s)
Search in: First Line Find: mocking bird	poem first lines that contain the phrase mocking bird
Search in: Play Title Find: the peer or the farmer	the exact phrase The Peer or the Farmer within a play title
Search in: Poet Find: bly robert	poet Robert Bly (search last-name first)
Search in: Full Text Find: mother love Limit to Book: dove in author	the phrase mother love within texts whose author is Dove

Boolean Search: to combine two or three words or phrases using Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT.

Search:	Finds:
Search in: Full Text Find: indian princess or belle sauvage	either phrase indian princess or belle sauvage anywhere in the selected collection(s)
Search in: Poem Title Find: child* and song*	poem titles with the words child (or children, children's, childhood, etc.) and song (or songs, etc.)
Search in: Full Text Find: colored or negro and soldiers	(either colored or negro) and soldiers

Proximity Search: to look for terms based on whether they occur (or do not occur) within a specified distance of each other.

Search:	Finds:
Search in: Full Text Find: lyric* followed by love <80	lyric (or lyrical, lyrics, etc.) followed within 80 characters by love
Search in: Full Text Find: truth near beauty <40 Limit to Book: longfellow in author	truth and beauty, within 40 characters of each other, in either order, within texts whose author is Longfellow

Book Search: to look for the sources (books) based on bibliographic information – title, author, and citation data such as publisher or date

Search:	Finds:
Find:crichton smith in Author and human in Title	The Human Face by Iain Crichton Smith (1928–), 67 p. Carcanet Manchester 1996.

Search History: View your previous searches during this session. From this page, you can resubmit a search to get its results again.

Search Results

Search results are grouped by book. You can sort results by author, title, date, or frequency of occurrences of your term.

Results Details: Shows each occurrence found of your term, highlighted within an excerpt of surrounding text. Click the poem, chapter, or section title to view that portion of the book.

Table of Contents: Shows the table of contents for the entire book in which the poem, play, or novel was published. The table of contents displays the title, author(s), and print source, and its entire list of poems, plays, chapters, etc. Click any entry to go directly there.

From the Table of Contents, use the box Search this Text to submit a search just within this book. The Table of Contents also displays the option to View Entire Text, which allows you to view the entire book as one file in your browser.

Bookbag

Click Add to Bookbag to save a book in a temporary space. From the Bookbag, you can search within the set of books that you have chosen. You can also e-mail, display, or save bibliographic information for books that you have chosen.

Email Contents: e-mail citations of selected books.

Download Contents: display or save citations of selected books.

Empty Contents: empties the bookbag.

December 2006