AUTHOR Concordances and
Collections
ARNOLD Parrish, Stephen Maxfield. A Concordance to the Poems of
Matthew Arnold. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1959.
BIBLE Strong, James. Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible . . . .
1894. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1981
BLAKE Erdman, David, V. A Concordance to the Writings of William
Blake. 2 vols. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1967.
BROWNING, E. B. Hudson, Gladys W. An Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Concordance. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale Research, 1973. [Each book indexed
separately.]
BROWNING, ROBERT Broughton, Leslie N. and Benjamin F. Stelter. A
Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning. 4 vols. 1924-25. New
York: Haskell House, 1970.
BURNS Reid, J. B. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems
and Songs of Robert Burns. 1889. Repr. New York: Russell and Russell,
1967.
BYRON Young, Ione Dodson. A Concordance to the Poetry of Byron. 4
vols. Austin, Texas: Pemberton Press, 1965.
COLERIDGE Logan, Eugenia, S.P. A Concordance to the Poetry of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge. 1940. Repr. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1967.
EMERSON Hubbell, George Skelton. A Concordance to the Poems of Ralph
Waldo Emerson. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1932.
EMERSON Ihreg, Mary Alice. Emerson's Transcendental Vocabulary: A
Concordance. New York & London: Garland, 1982. [Nine words/concepts
indexed]
EMERSON Irey, Eugene F. A Concordance to Five Essays of Ralph Waldo
Emerson [Nature, American Scholar, Divinity School Address,
Self-Reliance, Fate]. New York: Garland, 1981.
FITZGERALD Tutin, J[ohn] R[amsden]. A Concordance to Fitzgerald's
Translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: Macmillan, 1900.
Repr. New York: B. Franklin, 1968.
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Dixon, Geoffrey. The Gilbert and Sullivan
Concordance: A Word Index to W. S. Gilbert's Libretti for the Fourteen
Savoy Operas. 2 vols. New York and London: Garland, 1987.
GOLDSMITH Paden, William Doremus. A Concordance tothe Poems of Oliver
Goldsmith. 1940. Repr. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1966.
HOUSMAN Hyder, Clyde Kenneth. A Concordance to the Poems of A. E.
Housman. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1966.
HUXLEY Huxley, Thomas Henry. Aphorisms and Reflections From the Works
of T. H. Huxley. Selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. London: Macmillan,
1907. [Excellent concept/key word Index]
KEATS Baldwin, Dane Lewis, et al. A Concordance to the Poems of John
Keats. Washington, 1917. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963.
KEBLE Concordance to "The Christian Year". New York, 1871. New York:
Johnson Reprint Co., 1968.
LONGFELLOW Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Poetical Works .
. . . 6 vols. Cambridge Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893.
MEREDITH Hogan, Rebecca S. et al. A Concordance to the Poetry of
George Meredith. 2 vols. New York and London, 1982
MILTON Ingram, William and Kathleen Swaim. Concordance to Milton's
English Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
POE Booth, Bradford A. and Claude E. Jones. A Concordance of the
Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1941.
SHAKESPEARE Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1973.
SHAW Bevan, E. Dean. A Concordance to the Plays and Prefaces of
Bernard Shaw. 10 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1971.
SHELLEY Ellis, F. S. A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of
Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1892.
SPENSER Osgood, Charles Grosvenor. A Concordance to the Poems of
Edmund Spenser. 1915. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963.
TENNYSON Baker, Arthur Ernest. A Concordance to the Poetical and
Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1914. London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1965.
WORDSWORTH Cooper, Lane. A Concordance to the Poems of William
Wordsworth. London, 1911. Repr. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.
YEATS Parrish, Stephen Maxfield. A Concordance to the Poems of W. B.
Yeats. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1963.
COLLECTIONS of Poems, Songs, Hymns, Etcetera
Bell's Standard Elocutionist, Principles and Exercises, . . . Followed by
a Copious Selection of Extracts in Prose and Poetry . . .. By David
Charles Bell and Alexander Melvill Bell. Revised ed. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1888.
Birbeck, C. J. Select Recitations, Orations and Dramatic Scenes with
Actions and Emphasis. New York: Joseph F. Wagner, 1900. [Very popular
selection.]
Boni, Margaret Bradford. The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.
Delamar, Gloria T. Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays . . . and
Other Rhythms. Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland, 1983.
Disher, M. Willson. Victorian Song from Dive to Drawing Room. London:
Phoenix House, 1955. [Many songs quoted in part or whole.]
Ewen, David. American Popular Songs, From the Revolultionary War to the
Present. New York: Random House, 1966. [Not practically useful.]
Halliwell [Halliwell-Phillipps], James Orchard. Nursery Rhymes of
England. 6th ed. London: John Russell Smith, [1858].
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales; a
sequel to The Nursery Rhymes of England. London: John Russell Smith,
1849. Repr. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, n.d.
Hill, Caroline Miles. The World's Great Religious Poetry. New York,
1923. New York: Macmillan Co., 1939.
Hodgart, Matthew J. C. and Mabel Worthington. Songs in the Works of
James Joyce. New York: Columbia UP, 1959.
Miles, Alfred Henry. Original Poems, Ballads and Tales in verse for
reading and reciting. London: S. Paul, 1910.
Miles, Alfred Henry. The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. 8 vols.
London:Hutchison, [1891]. [Looked into vols. 1-4, 6, 8.]
Opie, Iona and Peter. I Saw Essau, Traditional Rhymes of Youth. London:
Williams and Norgate, 1947.
Opie, Iona and Peter, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, [1951, 1952] 1966.
INDEXES to Titles and First/Last Lines of Hymns, Songs, Poems and
Nursery Rhymes
BBC Music Library. Song Catalogue. Vol. I and II, Composers; vol. III
and IV, Titles. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1966. [Also
volumes on chamber music, opera, and orchestral music]
Brewton, John E. and Sara W. Index to Children's Poetry. 1942. New
York: H. W. Wilson, 1962.
Bunnings, Florence E. Folk Song Index: A Comprehensive Guide to the
Florence E. Bunnings Collection. New York: Garland, 1981. [Includes
popular songs also.]
Challier, Ernst. Grosser Lieder-Katalog. Berlin: Ernst Challier's
Selbstverlag, 1885; Vol. 2, Giessen, 1888; Vol. 3, Giessen, 1900. Repr.
3 vols. Wiesbaden: M. Sändig, 1979
Chicorel, Marietta. Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and
Collections in Print. 4 vols. New York:Chicorel Library Publishing,
1975 [Vols. 5, 5A, 5B, and 5C of Chicorel Index.]
Chicorel, Marietta. Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and
Collections: Retrospective Index to Out-of-Print Titles. 4 vols. New
York: Chicorel Library Publishing, 1975. [Vols. 6, 6A, 6B, and 6C of
Chicorel Index.]
Coffin, Berton, Werner Singer, Pierre Delattre. Word-by-Word
Translations of Songs and Arias. Part I: German and French. New York:
Scarecrow Press, 1966. [Indexes to titles and first lines in English and
in Fr. and Ger.]
Coffin, B. The Singer's Repertoire. 2nd ed. 5 vol. New York: Scarecrow
Press, 1960-62. [Catalogue of 8000 solo songs, mainly European. Vol. 5:
Index of Titles and Composers.]
Cushing, Helen Grant. Children's Song Index. New York: H. W. Wilson,
1936. [By Title, First Line, Author, and Categories like Flower.]
De Charms, Desirée and Paul F. Breed Songs in Collections: An Index.
1966. Detroit: Information Services Inc., 1971.
Diehl, Katherine Smith, ed. Hymns and Tunes-?An Index. New York and
London: Scarecrow, 1966. [First line of each stanza and refrain from 78
20th century hymnals.]
Gooch, Bryan N. S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of British
Romantic Literature, A Catalogue. 2 vols. New York and London: Garland,
1982. [Vol. 2: Indexes: Titles and First Lines; Composers.]
Gooch, Bryan N. S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and
Mid-Victorian Literature. New York: Garland, 1979
Gooch, Bryan N. S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Late
Victorian and Modern British Literature: A Catalogue. New York and
London: Garland, 1976. [Index of Authors; Composers: Arranged by
author] [Vol. 2. Index to Titles and First Lines to Musical Settings,
etc. N. p. N. d.]
Granger, Edith, ed. An Index to the Poetry and Recitations . . . . (2nd
ed., 1918) Chicago: McClurg, 1927
Granger's Index to Poetry and Recitations. Ed. Helen Humphrey Bessey.
3rd ed., completely revised. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1940.
Granger's Index to Poetry. Ed. William James Smith. 6th ed, completely
revised. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.
Havlice, Patricia Pate. Popular Song Index. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow
Press, 1975. [Modern, but some collections reprint earlier works.]
Julian, John. A Dictionary of Hymnology Setting Forth the Origin and
History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. Rev. ed. London,
1907. New York: Dover, 1957. [Index of first lines: vol. 2, pp. 1307 ff.]
Kinkle, Roger D., ed. The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and
Jazz 1900-1950. 4 vols. New Rochelle, N. Y.: Arlington House, 1974.
[Vol. 1: Music Year by Year 1900-1950; Vol. 2 & 3: Biographies; Vol.
4:Indexes and Appendices (Complete Index of Names and Song Titles)]
Klepper, Robert F. A Concordance of the Hymnal 1982. According to the
Use of the Episcopal Church. Metuchen, N.Y.: Scarecrow Press, 1989.
- - - -. Methodist Hymnal Concordance. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press,
1987.
Kline, Victoria. Last Lines: An Index to the Last Lines of Poetry. 2
vols. New York and Oxford: Facts on File, 1991. [Vol. 1: Last line
index; Title index. Vol. 2: Author index; Keyword index]
Lax, Roger and Frederick Smith. The Great Song Thesaurus. 2nd ed. New
York: Oxford UP, 1989. [Lists hit songs from earliest times, fuller
after 1890.]
Leigh, Robert. Index to Song Books. Stockton, Ca.: Robert Leigh, 1964.
Repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. [Mostly recent. Title and
Anthology only]
Little, Rev. Charles E. Historical Lights: Six Thousand Quotations from
Standard Histories and Biographies . . . New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1886.
Lubbock, Mark Hugh. The Complete Book of Light Opera. London: Putnam;
New York: Appleton-Centrury Croft, 1962. [Includes musical comedies;
quotes beginnings of songs.]
McDormand, Thomas B. and Frederic S. Crossman, comps. Judson Concordance
to Hymns. Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1965. [Indexes key word of
each line.]
Methodist Hymn-Book. Toronto: Methodist Book and Publishing House;
Halifax: Methodist Book-Room, [n.d.] [Preface indicates this version
first pub. before 1883.] "Index to Each Verse Except the First One of
Every Hymn," pp. 754-767.
Myers, Robin S. A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language from
Chaucer to 1940. 2 vols. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970-71. Vol. 2 is a
Title Index.
Nardone, Thomas R., ed. Classical Vocal Music in Print. Philadelphia:
Musicdata, 1976. [Arranged by composer and by name of work.]
Palloy, Steven, comp. Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music. New
York, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, 1987. [English and
Foreign titles are cross indexed.]
Reinhart, Thilo, ed. The Singer's Schumann. New York: Rosen Publishing
Group, 1989. [Full German and English text of all songs.]
Routley, Erik. An English-Speaking Hymnal Guide. Collegeville, Minn.:
Liturgical Press, 1979. [Hymns by Title; historical account, where pub.;
versions; very scholarly]
Sears, Minnie E. and Phyllis Crawford. Song Index: An Index to more than
12,000 Songs in 177 Song Collections comprising 262 Volumes. New York:
H. W. Wilson, 1926. Supplement, 1934.
Shaw, John Mackey. Childhood in Poetry . . . Poems that Relate to
Childhood. 5 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1967. [Vol. 5 is Key Word Index to
titles of poems.]
Snyder, Lawrence D. German Poetry in Song: An Index of Lieder.
Berkeley, CA: Fallen Leaf Press, 1995. [Author, title, and first line
indexes]
Stevenson, Burton Egbert. The Home Book of Verse: American and English.
2 vols. 1925. 9th ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1953. Vol. 2 has Index of
First Lines and Index of Titles.
DICTIONARIES: of Words, Maxims, Proverbs, Slang, and Dialect
Apperson, G. L. English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: A Historical
Dictionary. London: J. M. Dent, 1929.
Bohn, Henry George. A Hand-Book of Proverbs . . . . London: H. G. Bohn,
1855. Repr. New York: AMS Press, 1968. [In most cases, arranged
alphabetically by whole proverb]
Brewer, E. C. A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 9th ed. New York:
Harper & Row, 1965.
Champion, Selwyn Gurney. Racial Proverbs. A Selection of the World's
Proverbs Arranged Linguistically. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1950
Davidoff, Henry. A World Treasury of Proverbs from Twenty-five
Languages. New York: Random House, 1946. [By rubric and subject]
Farmer, John S. and W. E. Henley eds. Slang and its Analogues Past and
Present. 7 vols. London, 1890-1904. New York: Kraus, 1965.
Fergusson, Rosalind. The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. New
York: Facts on File, 1983.
Fuller, Edmund. Thesaurus of Epigrams. 1942. Garden City, New York:
Garden City Publishing, 1948. [Well arranged.]
Gross, John. The Oxford Book of Aphorisms. Oxford and New York: Oxford
UP, 1983. [Arranged by topic. No index. Nearly useless.]
Hyamson, Albert M. A Dictionary of English Phrase. New York: E. P.
Dutton, 1922; repr. Detroit: Gale, 1970
Lean, Vincent Stuckey. Lean's Collectanea. Collections by Vincent
Stuckey Lean of Proverbs (English & Foreign), Folk Lore, and
Superstitions . . . . 4 vols. [vol. II in 2 parts]. Bristol: J. W.
Arrowsmith; London: Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1904. [Vol. 4 with
extensive Index, including Key Words]
Mieder, Wolfgang. The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986. [Cites only nationality,
but useful as a starting point.]
Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs. Rev. by F. P. Wilson. 3rd ed.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.
Oxford English Dictionary. 33 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1933;
Supplement. 4 vols. 1972, 1976, 1982, 1986; Additional Series. 2
vols. eds. John Simpson & Edmund Weiner, 1993.
Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 3rd
ed. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949; 8th ed. Ed. Paul Beale
(1980). New York: Macmillan, 1984.
Slang Dictionary; or The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and AFast@
Expressions of High and Low Society. London: John Camden Hotten, 1865
Stevenson, Burton, ed. The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and
Familiar Phrases. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1948.
Tilley, Morris Palmer. A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England. In the
Sixteenth and Severteenth Century. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1950.
[Main subjects, but good key-word index]
Udang, Laurence. Idioms and Phases Index. 3 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1983.
Urdang, Laurence, Ceila Dame Robbins, Frank R. Abate. Mottoes. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1986. [All languages. Foreign mottoes are followed by a
translation. Alphabetical index.]
Whiting, Bartlett Jere. Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989. [Arranged by common subject]
Wright, Joseph. The English Dialect Dictionary. 6 vols. London,
1898-1905. London: Oxford UP, 1961.