English Language and Literature Resources
Updated 1/09/08
General Resources
Biographies
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- College Bound
Reading List
- Compiled by Arrowhead Library System, an extensive reading list for
those headed for college.
- English
and American Literary Resources on the Net
- Another superb collection of Internet resources for the study of
Literature, gathered by Professor Jack Lynch, Rutgers
University.
- Resources for the Anglo-Saxon World
- A collection of links to Web Pages dealing with a wide variety of
Anglo-Saxon Studies information resources.
- Hypertext
Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- This classic work of reference - described as a browser's joy - has
been in popular demand since 1870. The Dictionary is extensively cross
referenced, lending itself ideally, to the hypertext environment. This
First Hypertext Edition is taken from Dr. Brewer's substantially revised
and extended edition of 1894.
- World
Mythology: Myth by Image
- Visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and look at this great
collection of images from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China! If you
click on the picture, you will discover more about the myths of these
cultures.
- Folklore and
Mythology Electronic Texts
- A collection of links to actual texts of folk tales and myths from
countries of the world. Also includes links to images associated with the
stories and cultures.
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Shakespeare Resources
- Mr. William Shakespeare
On the Internet/Web
- Dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding of Shakespeare's
plays and other works. Includes information on a wide variety of topics
related to Shakespeare. This is an excellent place to start research on
Shakespeare, his life, and times.
- William
Shakespeare, Complete
- This is an online version of the complete works of William
Shakespeare, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also
includes links to other Internet information resources related to
Shakespeare, his life and times.
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Sixteenth
Century Ballads: A work in progress...
- "The goal of this project is to produce a collection of "interesting"
ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and lyrics, both in
their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern listener."
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Drama Resources
- Readers' Theatre Scripts
- A
collection of scripts for readers' theatre provided by storyteller, Aaron
Shepard. Available for free educational use.
English and Literature Resources
- ChildLit Web Guide
- A guide to what is available on the Web related to Children's
Literature, including links to many full-text sources, discussion group
archives, etc.
- MidLink Magazine
- Magazine by kids ages 10-15.
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Links to Books and Book Related Resources
- The Tech Classics Archive
- An online archive of 184 works by 17 classical authors (in
translation), provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The
texts are in HTML format, but raw text files are also available. Each
work has been segmented into the different books, sections, parts, etc.
whenever possible.
- Romantic Circles
- Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and
historical contexts.
- BookWire
- BookWire is a comprehensive guide to the book-related resources of
the Internet. Book reviews, author information, book-related events,
links to publishers and booksellers, a book-related cartoons gallery, and
other related topics are to be found here.
Poetry Archives and Poetry Related Resources On The Web
- Search The
American Verse Project
- Search this poetry archive using key words, names or phrases, or go
to the list of poets and poems and scan the list.
- British Poetry 1780-1910
- Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Electronic Text Center. This
project invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature
and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of
marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between
1780-1900.
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Project
Aldus
- Project Aldus was created as an electronic archive for
source and secondary materials related to the study of the English
Renaissance/Early Modern Period. This included the reign of Elizabeth I,
and produced such writers as Shakespeare, Spenser, Waytt, Raleigh, Milton,
Donne, and many, many others. Project Aldus files are physically located
at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and made available
through the World Wide Web. Note: Be sure to visit the Gallery and
Library sections.
- Bartleby Library
of Columbia University
- A nice collection of famous poets and authors from America and Great
Britain, along with special collections prepared from the Columbia
University resources.
- by poet name. Also a helpful collection of
links to other online poetry resources.
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Philosophy and Philosophers
- The Internet Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
- An online set of resources related to the entire subject of
philosophy, including biographies of the famous philosophers.
- Guide to
Philosophy on the Internet
- A huge file of information related to philosophy and philosophers.
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Another place to find out about philosophy.
- Return to the Stiern Middle School Library Web Links Page..