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General

American Authors http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/

American Literature Before the 20th Century http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.mimi.html

American Literature, 20th Century http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.sallyanne.html

American Literature Online http://web.missouri.edu/~engmo/amlit.html

Authors and Illustrators http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/cl.authors.html

British and Irish Authors on the Web http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site http://www.carolhurst.com

Classic Notes http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles.html

Concordances of Great Books http://www.concordance.com/

Dictionary of Literary Terms http://www.bell.k12.ca.us/BellHS/Littauer/Literary.Terms.Menu

Classic Review Index http://www.TheAtlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/classrev/crindex.htm

Critical Reading: A Guide http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html

Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web) http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/

English and its History http://www.bluerider.com/english/

English Pages! http://longman.awl.com/englishpages/

English Server Fiction: Criticism http://eserver.org/fiction/crit.html

Fairrosa Cyber Library http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/

Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/

FreeBooknotes.com http://www.freebooknotes.com/index.html

GALE's Literary Index http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

***A quick index to our many lit crit series!!! Try it!

Garbl's Writing Resources Online http://www.members.home.net/garbl/writing/

Glossary of Poetic Terms http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html

Glossary of Literary Terms (Gale) http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/lit_cent/glossary.htm

Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/Harris/rhetform.html

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

Graduation Speeches http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches/

Grammar Bytes http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm

Great Writers and Poets http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html

Handbook for Discussing Terms of Poetry http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html

High School Literature: Mulnomah Public Library http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/hslit.html

History of Mystery http://www.mysterynet.com/history/

If You Like ... http://www.hennepin.lib.mn.us/pub/reader2reader/iyl.html

Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/

Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adults' Authors http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm

Internet Resources in English Language and Literature http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/subj/english/englit.html

Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb/

Legends http://www.legends.dm.net/

Library Spot Writing a Paper http://www.libraryspot.com/paperfeature.htm

Linguistic Fun Page http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/

LitEngine.com http://www.litengine.com/

Literary History http://www.literaryhistory.com An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular

Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story? http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/

Literature and Culture of the American 1950s http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Literary Calendar: An Almanac of Literary Information http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/

Literary Critic.com http://literarycritic.com/

Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

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

Lit Links http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/

Literary Links http://www.ualberta.ca/~amactavi/litlinks.htm

Literary Menagerie http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~egcash/

Literary Resource Center http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/name/Joyce99:Joyce99

Literature and Poetry http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/literat.html

Malaspina Great Books http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/books.htx

Medea http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/medea.htm

19th Century American Women Writers http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/

Notes From the Windowsill http://www.armory.com/~web/notes.html

NovelGuide - Novel Resource Guide and Literary Analysis http://www.novelguide.com/

Pink Monkey http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp

Pilot-Search: A Literary Search Engine http://www.pilot-search.com/

Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/indexcriticism.html

Pulitzer Prizes http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html

Random House Reading Group Guides http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/rgg.html

Reading Group Choices - http://www.readinggroupchoices.com/

Recommended Literature: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/literature/

Resources for American Literature http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/index.html

Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html

Science Fiction Resource Guide (SFRG) http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/SFRG/

SparkNotes http://www.thespark.com/sparknotes/

Study Guides for Various Works http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/guides_index.html

Study Guide For Euripides' Medea http://www.temple.edu/departments/classics/medeamythho.html

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html

Wild Wonderful W.orld of Theatre History http://www.montevallo.edu/thea/theahis/Theahis_2.html

Women's Studies Resources: Literature http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/literature.html

World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language http://www.worldwidewords.org/

Write Tools: Editors' and Writers' Toolkit http://writetools.com/

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

****Remember to visit the "Catalogs and Databases" section of our Web page for magazine reviews in SuperTom, SIRS Knowledge Source, DISCovering Authors, elibrary and authors' biographies in Wilson's Biographies catalogs.html

Just for fun, try this one:

Book-A-Minute Classics http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Online Writing Laboratories/Grammar guides: (Try these for advice on how to write almost anything!)

AskOxford.com http://www.askoxford.com/

Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation http://www.grammarbook.com/

Chicago Manual of Style FAQ http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq.html

Daily Grammar http://www.dailygrammar.com/

Dakota State University Online Writing Laboratory http://www.departments.dsu.edu/owl/

Dr. Grammar http://www.drgrammar.org/

English Grammar http://members.home.net/englishzone/study/levelsort.html

Figures of Speech http://www.unipissing.ca/faculty/williams/figofspe.htm

Grammar Hotline Directory www.tc.cc.va.us/writcent/gh/hotlinol.htm

Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association http://cctc.commnet.edu/mla.htm

Guide to Grammar and Writing http://ccc.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm

Handbook of Rhetorical Devices http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm

Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Michigan Technological UniversityWriting Center http://www.hu.mtu.edu/wc/

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/

On-line Grammars http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html

Online Writery (University of Missouri--Columbia) http://web.missouri.edu/~writery/

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant http://www.powa.org/

Plain Language Action Network http://www.plainlanguage.gov/

Power Reporting http://powerreporting.com/

Public Speaking Workbook http://www.la.psu.edu/speech/100a/workbook/wrkbk.htm

Temple University Writing Center http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/

Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/handouts.html

Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html

SUNY Albany Writing Center http://www.albany.edu/writing/resource.htm

Sweetland Online Writing and Learning (University of Michigan) http://www.lsa.umich.edu/swc/OWL/owl.html

Trinity College Writing/Rhetoric Center http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/writcent/aksmith.html

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Online Writing Lab http://www.ualr.edu/~owl/

University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Writing Center Handouts http://www.utexas.edu/depts/uwc/.html/handout.html

University of Wisconsin Writing Center http://www.wisc.edu/writing/

Writing Centers Online http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/NWCAOWLS.html

Writers' Workshop http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/

Vocabulary University http://www.vocabulary.com

Voycabulary http://www.voycabulary.com

Forget your book? Get one online

Remember, you can find poems and short stories in PoemFinder in the ACCESS PA Power Library under Catalogs and Databases.

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alex/alex-index.html

American Authors on the Web http://ernie.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

American Literature Before the 20th Century http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.mimi.html

American Literature, 20th Century http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.sallyanne.html

American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/

British Poetry: 1780-1910 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

Canterbury Tales (Modern English) http://www.litrix.com/canterby/cante001.htm

Canterbury Tales http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm

Canterbury Tales (plot summaries) http://sfbox.vt.edu:10021/T/tomt220/tales.html

Celebration of Women Writers http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/writers/html

Children’s Literature Web Guide http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Classic Short Stories http://www.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/shorts/

Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

*Classic Reader (poetry, short stories, fiction, nonfiction, drama) http://www.classicreader.com/

Complete Works of William Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Ebook Library at the Electronic Text Center http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

Electronic Library http://www.books.com/scripts/lib.exe

Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF) - http://elf.chaoscafe.com/

Electronic Poetry Center http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors

Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia Library http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html

Electronic Texts in Western European Literature http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

English Server http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/

Folklore and Mythology - Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Gallica Classique (French texts) http://gallica.bnf.fr/Classique/

Geoffrey Chaucer http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Great Books Index http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html

Great Literature Online http://underthesun.cc/Classics/

Grimm's Fairy Tales http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/

Index of Poets in Representative Poetry Online http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/

Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/

LitEngine.com http://www.litengine.com/

Literature and Poetry http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/literat.html

Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

Literary Resources on the Net http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

LitLinks http://www.ualberta.ca/~amactavi/authors.htm

Middle English Collection http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html

Online Texts Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

Online Books Page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Poetry Server http://eserver.org/about/content.nclk

*Poet's Corner http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2012/poems/index.html

Poetry Center http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

Project Bartleby Archive http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/

Representative Poetry Online http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html

Resources for American Literature http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/index.htm

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

Short Stories http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from around the World http://members.nbci.com/darsie/tales/

Twenty Great American Short Stories http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML

Unbound Bible http://unbound.biola.edu/

Victorian Women's Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

Webtime Stories http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/webtime/

Words of Humankind http://landmark-project.com/page.php3?pn=3&psn=&cat=17

Works of the Bard http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/

Poetry/Sonnets

Remember, you can find poems and short stories in PoemFinder in the ACCESS PA Power Library under Catalogs and Databases.

Critical Reading: Poetry http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html

*Poetry 180: A Poem a Day For American High Schools http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

*Poet's Corner http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/

*Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm

*Aha! Poetry http://www.ahapoetry.com/

American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

*Atlantic Unbound Poetry Pages http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/poetpage.htm

About.com Poetry Home Page http://poetry.miningco.com/arts/poetry/

About.com 20th Century Poetry http://poetry.about.com/cs/20thcenturypoets/

*Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry: 1250–1920 http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

*British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

*Electronic Poetry Center http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

*Favorite Poem Project http://www.favoritepoem.org/

Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/

*Internet Poetry Archive http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa/

Lost Poets of the Great War http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/ThePoets.html

*Modern American Poetry: A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry

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

*Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html

Online News Hour: Poems http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poems/poems.html

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html

*Poetry Archives http://www.emule.com/poetry/

*Poetry Archives http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/6006/poets/index.htm

*Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com

Poetry Magic http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/

Poetry Pages http://www.poetrypages.com/frames.html

Poetry Portal http://www.poetry-portal.com/

Poetry Previews http://www.poetrypreviews.com/

Poetry Society of America http://www.poetrysociety.org/

*Poet's Corner--Poems http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/poems/index.htm

*Representative Poetry Online http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html

Romantic Circles - http://www.rc.umd.edu/

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary http://www.rhymezone.com

*Sonnet Central - http://www.sonnets.org/

*United States of Poetry http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/index.htm

*World of Poetry http://www.worldofpoetry.org/

Sonnets

Francis Petrarch http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/petrarch/index.html

Renascence Editions http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/sonnets.html

Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Sonnets http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/17th.htm

Sonnet Central http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/sonnet.htm

Sonnets http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/english/Courses/English213/Sonnet.html

Writing Reviews

CyberEnglish http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8565/Writing/writing.html

Film, Drama and Book Reviews http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/linksspecial.htm#film

Writing About Literature http://www.mcs.com/~prndrgst/WAL.html

How to Write a Book Review for History http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libinfo/research/bookrev.html

How to Write a Book Review http://stauffer.queensu.ca/inforef/bookreview/write_review.htm

How to Write a Book Review http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/mbgraham/c&i210/bokrev.html

How to Write a Movie Review http://www.millikin.edu/mr/Entertainment/howto2.html

Writing and Posting Film Reviews http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/filmsociety/Film%20Society/forum1.htm

Beowulf Background

Anglo-Saxon Culture http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/british_isles/anglo-saxon/anglo-saxon.html

Anglo-Saxon England http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/early/pre1000/ASindex.html

Anglo-Saxon Archaeology http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Archaeology/staff/jwh/anglo.html

Anglo-Saxon Living History http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2471/

Anglo-Saxons http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/russom/anglos.html

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Heroic Verse Epic (links) http://www.jps.net/pdeane/fgr/beoIndex.htm

Bullfinch: Northern Mythology http://www.showgate.com/medea/bulfinch/bull38.html

Celts and Saxons Homepage http://www.primenet.com/~lconley/index.html

Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/

Germanic Myths, Legends and Sagas http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/mythlinks.html

Hanly's Anglo-Saxon Page http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/oe/503.html

Medieval World: The Anglo-Saxons http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDTsaxons.htm

Norse Mythology Web Page http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/mythology.html

Open Directory: Beowulf Links http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/British_Literature/Medieval/Beowulf/

Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature (links) http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-med.html

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