English Language and Literature Resources
Updated 1/09/08

General Resources

Biographies

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.

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.
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."

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.
 

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.
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.
 

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.

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