| Code | Description | Items |
|---|---|---|
| 800 | Literature & rhetoric | 1630 |
| 810 | American literature in English | 13882 |
| 820 | English & Old English literatures | 10196 |
| 830 | Literatures of Germanic languages | 5002 |
| 840 | Literatures of Romance languages | 6202 |
| 850 | Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romanic | 30007 |
| 860 | Spanish & Portuguese literatures | 2759 |
| 870 | Italic literatures Latin | 593 |
| 880 | Hellenic literatures Classical Greek | 614 |
| 890 | Literatures of other languages | 3821 |