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Biography
Modern Literature
- American Writers
"C-SPAN brings together writers, scholars, historians and actors to
examine the lives and work of selected Twentieth Century American Writers
who have influenced our nation's history."
- A Celebration
of Women Writers
A compilation of web sources.
- A Glossary
of Literary Criticism
Concise definitions of literary criticism terms.
- Gothic:
Materials for Study
This project provides literary criticisms and observation late 18th
to early 19th century Gothic works.
- Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg contains more than 10,000 copyright-free texts and
is adding more all the time.
- Scholarly
English Resources
Contains links to style guides, primary text collections, national,
ethnic, and minority literature. From the University of Virginia
Library.
- The University
of Virginia Electronic Text Library
This site contains thousands of texts in English, as well as some in
German, French, Japanese and Latin, along with background information.
- The Voice of the Shuttle
Web page for humanities research from UCSB.l One of the best places
to start poetry research on the web.
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Poetry
- The Poetry and Literature Center
of the Library of Congress
A celebration of poetry and the poet laureates rather than a huge digital
archive. There is some audio, plus a link to the excellent Bily Collins'
project Poetry 180
- Poetry and
Song
Using the poetry of Bill Payne, this site demonstrates how poetry is
turned into song and allows the visitor to write lyrics and songs.
- Poetry
on the Peaks
In recognition of the International Year of the Mountains, Dialogue
Through Poetry is organizing mountain top readings. You can visit the
mountains and read the poems.
- Poet's Corner
A collection of full text poems, written between the 16th century and
1925. While this site will not replace a good anthology, it does offer
a broad spectrum of poets and poetical styles for browsing.
- The Voice of the Shuttle
Web page for humanities research from UCSB. One of the best places to
start poetry research on the web.
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Quotations
- Bartlett's
Quotations at bartleby.com
Same as print version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th
ed. (1919) but the 11,000 entries are searchable by keyword.
- The
Quotations Page
In
addition to the searchable database, there are Quotations of the Day,
featured authors and subjects and discussion forums.
Shakespeare
- Mr. Shakespeare and the
Internet
Everything Shakespeare, this site aims to link to existing web sources
plus come up with original material and does both admirably; searchable
with criticism, text, timelines, study guides, Globe Theatre information...
Try the site map
for an overview.
- Shakespeare Online
Links to texts and essays by Amanda Mabillard.
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Classics, Mythology & Folklore
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Argos Limited Area Search
Engine
Searches only scholarly sites about the Ancient World. Links to other
helpful Internet locations. Try TOCS-IN, a project which "archives
the tables of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists."
- Bulfinch's Mythology
Full text selection from "Bulfinch's Mythology." Text is being
added on a continual basis and is searchable. If you are looking for
the full version of this work, try Ref 292 B87m, in the Garver Room.
- Diotima: Women and Gender
in the Ancient World
This densely packed site offers translated Greek, Latin, Egyptian and
Coptic primary source documents. Numerous links to other scholarly sites,
a search engine, and course materials are included.
- Electronic Beowulf
The Beowulf manuscript at the British Library in all its glory, including
long hidden changes revealed by fiber optic backlighting. Due to frames,
select "Digital Library", then "Beowulf".
- Encyclopedia Mythica
Online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and legend contains over
5000 entries. Search engine provides access to specific topics, also
contains a browse list, a "what's new" category, illustrations
and graphics.
- Folklore and
Mythology Electronic Texts
While not as extensive as "Bulfinch's Mythology" (see above),
this site contains extensive and diverse full text folk tales and myths.
The site lacks overall organization, but its coverage makes up for this
flaw. (It utilizes the Aarne-Thompson tale types for some identification.)
Geoffrey
Chaucer
An extensive scholarly site from Harvard University, there is much here
on the life of the middle ages as well as information on Chaucer and
his works.
- Internet Classics Archive
Almost 400 full text Greek and Roman works, with searchable text and
links to reader discussion.
- Mything Links
From Pacifica Graduate Institute, this site is "An Annotated & Illustrated
Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore,
Sacred Arts & Traditions
- The Perseus Project
An "evolving digital library on Ancient Greece and Rome." Some full
text documents.
- Project Gutenberg
Contains more than 10,000 copyright-free texts and is adding more all
the time.
- The University
of Virginia Electronic Text Library
Thousands of texts in English, as well as some in German, French,
Japanese and Latin, along with background information.
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