"Literature Online is a living product, consistently evolving so that it's always exceeding the expectations of its users," said Mary Sauer-Games, Vice President, Chadwyck-Healey publishing.  "Growing the breadth and quality of the content is a centerpiece of that evolution.  We are always exploring for content that will better serve literature researchers in this context and with this technology.  Faber and Faber is a perfect example of that strategy in action." 

"Faber and Faber have had a longstanding, fruitful publishing partnership with ProQuest and we are delighted to be renewing and enhancing that relationship through this agreement and making more of our poets available to the academic market via their excellent products," said Jason Cooper, rights director, Faber and Faber.

In addition to the Faber titles already covered in Literature Online (including notable works by  T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon), this extended agreement includes the poetry of W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin, previously unavailable in electronic form.  Also added are Nobel prize-winner Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, T. S. Eliot's early poetry, collected in Inventions of the March Hare, and more recently published material such as Daljit Nagra's Look We Have Coming to Dover! and Simon Armitage's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

The addition of Faber and Faber content to Literature Online is part of a larger ProQuest strategy to identify and digitize content that propels research forward.  ProQuest has a longstanding reputation for the development of effective publishing partnerships, such as the agreement with Faber and Faber, which bring new content into ProQuest's popular research products. 

Literature Online was launched in 1996, breaking new ground in electronic publishing and setting the standard for the delivery of scholarly materials over the Internet.  Since then, it has continuously expanded with the addition of essential collections that make it an indispensable resource for literary studies.   Literature Online's 21 collections now include more than 350,000 works of literature with a vast pool of criticism and reference. Unique offerings such as 800 videos of poetry readings and links to more than 5,250 expertly selected literature web sites help make it the leading online resource for teaching and studying literature in English.

For more information about Literature Online or any ProQuest product, visit www.proquest.com