Literature

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Comprehensive Literature Sites

A Literary Index - Internet Resources in Literature (Prepared by Chris Flack)

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

Reviews important lists of literary resources and collections of links on the Internet. This site organizes its links in the following categories: Literature Indices; Archives of Electronic Texts; Doing Literary Research; English Departments and Literary Institutes; Books and Presses; Composition, Rhetoric and Writing; and The Teaching of Literature.

Literature Resources

http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/index.html

This site from MIT Libraries organizes a collection of links to primarily English and American literature sources.

Online Literary Criticism Collection

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Part of the Internet Public Library, this site links to over 1,500 selected websites with critical and biographical information about authors and their works. The collection covers selected US and British literary works from pre-1500 to the present and is browsable by author, title, or literary period. Some of the sites require special access to Project Muse (an Eden-Webster Library subscription), or to the Northern Lights Special Collection where a cost is involved to access the item.

On-Line Literary Resources (Jack Lynch)

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

A collection of links to Internet sites with an emphasis on English and American literature. Named in the top 5% of quality Internet sites by Point and rated four stars by Magellan.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3

A searchable site which emphasizes works written in English and widely taught in literature departments. Links are organized by period (e.g. Victorian) and also genre (e.g. poetry). There are also links to sites related to creative writing and cultural studies.

Yahoo's List on Literature

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/

Literary Periods

Grover Furr's Medieval History and Literature Page

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/medieval.html

Covers medieval history, literature, art, music, culture, Chaucer, Middle English and other medieval literatures. Helpful for its evaluative annotations.

The Labyrinth

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Georgetown University's collection of online resources for the study of the Middle Ages. Covers medieval literature, history, art and culture, and contains electronic texts, teaching resources, and professional information.

Luminarium

http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

This site focuses on English literature of the Middle English, Renaissance, and 17th-Century periods with information on writers, works, and background information on the culture and history of the period.

Romantic Chronology

http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/

Hypertexted chronology of literary, social, and historical events from 1660-1851 in Britain and France. Connects to online resources related to literature of the 17th though the 19th centuries.

The Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org/

This collection of links goes beyond the literary to include materials on art, science, religion, and philosophy of the period. Developed by Professor Landow at Brown University and rated by Point as a top Internet site.

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s (by Al Filreis)

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Interdisciplinary site maintained by Alan Filreis(Univ. of Pennsylvania) for his course on American literature and culture of the 1950s. Lists articles and materials on literature, politics, sociology, and the arts of that decade.

American Literature

American Authors

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/aufram.html

This site created by English professor Donna M. Campbell at Gonzaga University organizes links to a wealth of information on American authors. Author pages include pictures of the author, biographical information, bibliographies and links to related websites. An added feature to this site are literary crossword puzzles, games and quizzes.

American Authors on the Web

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

Maintained by an English professor at Nagoya University, this site offers a comprehensive listing of American authors with links to websites.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature A Research and Reference Guide

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm

This site created by English professor, Paul Reuben of California State University Stanislaus, provides a textbook-like review of American literary history with primary and secondary bibliographies for major periods and authors. Offers discussion, study questions and useful links to specific subject sites for American Literature and online literary texts.

Shakespeare Sites

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

A well designed, annotated guide to scholarly and other Shakespeare resources on the internet. Includes a Shakespeare timeline, geneology, Charles and Mary lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, and the prefatory materials from the First Folio.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

This site allows searching of full-text versions of the author's plays and sonnets and provides links to other Internet resources.

Yahoo's William Shakespeare Page

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Playwrights/Shakespeare__William__1564_1616_/

Provides good, quick links to numerous reviewed Shakespeare sites.

Creative Writing Resources

Poets & Writers

http://www.pw.org/

This nonprofit organization offers helpful resources for creative writers including links to literary magazines, small presses, job listings, discussion groups, "Top Ten Topics for Writers" and selected content from Poets & Writers Magazine.

Electronic Texts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Special features include the ability to search for keywords across multiple texts and also the creation of PDF files for printing.

Bartleby Library Great Books Online

http://www.bartleby.com

Includes copyright-free texts for many classics, a section called Bartleby Verse with several collections of American and British poetry from 1250 to 1920 and Bartlett's Quotations.The Bartleby site also includes the 18 volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Online archive of electronic texts available from the University of Virginia. Although many of the etexts are available only to affiliated users of University of Virginia, there are 5000 publicly accessible texts. The collection includes many illustrated classics, works by African-American, Native American, and women writers, the Bible, literature in translation, Shakespeare, young readers, and early American fiction.

Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

This site links to over 20,000 full text books in English that are no longer under copyright. The site is edited by its creator John Mark Ockerbloom and hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Project Gutenberg

http://promo.net/pg/

Contains over 10,000 copyright-free texts, including classics such as Aesop's Fables, A Child's Garden of Verses, Plato's Republic, and The Collected Works of Frederick Douglass.

Poetry Sites

Academy of American Poets - Poets.org

http://www.poets.org/

The organization's site offers poetry exhibits, discussion forums, and an index of poets with biographical information, photos, and poetry selections. There are audio clips for more than 100 poets.

American Verse Project

http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/index.html

This site is an ongoing project of the Humanities Text Initiative and University of Michigan to assemble an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. The archive consists mostly of 19th century poetry with a few 18th century and early 20th century texts. Major poets such as Poe, Dickinson, Sandburg, & Longfellow are covered as well as a number of African American and women poets.

Electronic Poetry Center

http://epc.buffalo.edu/

EPC links to electronic poetry magazines, authors' pages, poetry presses, a poetry Web guide, visual poetry files, and poetry conference information. The site is housed at the University of Buffalo with content provided by the faculty and librarians at SUNY.

Glossary of Poetic Terms

http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

Demystifies poetic terms from anepest to zeugma.

Modern American Poetry

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/"

A collaborative site for the study of modern American poetry maintained by the University of Illinois and based on the Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press). It offers biographical information on poets, excerpts of criticism, course syllabi, poet interviews, historical information as context to the poet's work and multimedia presentations of selected poems.

Poetry Archive

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Created in 1999 by UK poet laureate Andrew Motion, this site offers recordings by hundreds of poets reading their work. It includes educational resources for teachers and students, a separate archive of children's poetry, and the ability to browse for poems by theme or poetic form.

Poetry Archives

http://www.emule.com/poetry/

A large searchable collection of classical poetry maintained by students in the University System of Georgia. You can browse a list of poets and link to their poems or search by poet's name, poem title, or by words in the first line.

Poetry Portal

http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles.html

This gateway site links to numerous sites dealing with poetry. Links include poetry sites; ezines; audio poetry; literary appreciation; criticism and reviews; poetry courses; workshops; conferences; book news; literary chit-chat and trade news; and poetry writing and publishing resources.

Poetry Society of America

http://www.poetrysociety.org/

The organization's site links to poetry journal sites, publishers, independent bookstores, literary organizations, contests, creative writing programs, writers' conferences and more.