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English Internet Links
Yahoo! English - Links to American, Australian, Canadian and British English, as well as dictionaries, grammar, writing and more.
African American Literature - Part of the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, this site has archived works by African Americans. Note: Larger works can be retrieved in sections by way of a Table of Contents [TOC] choice. Items marked with an asterisk are available to UVa users only, due to licensing requirements.
American Authors on the Web - Created by a professor of Language & Culture at Nagoya University, Japan, access links to scholarly as well as irreverent web sites relating to authors of American literature. Authors are listed in chronological order and include such writers as Cooper, Ginsberg, and Poe.
American Literary Classics: A Chapter a Day Library - Find classic American stories, divided by chapter, such as: Heart of Darkness, The Prince and the Pauper, and Moby Dick.
American Literature, Post Civil War - Find links to the works of such authors as Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, and Ernest Hemingway.
American Verse Project - Part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative site, this portion includes verse by such American poets as John Greanleaf Whittier, Carl Sandburg and Stephen Vincent Benét.
A Celebration of Women Writers - part of the Online Books Project at the University of Pennsylvania;
Early American Literature - This site lists American authors by the following categories: Native American Literary Expressions, Pre-Colonial, Links Indian Captivity, Colonial America, The Puritan Influence, Neo-Classic Influence, The Romantics, The Romantic Poets, Abolition and Uncle Tom, Transcendentalist, Humorists and Local Colorists, Links to American Literature (other collections), Links to Post Civil War American Literature (another page made at the same site), as well as an alphabetical listing of American authors. Find links to the works of such authors as Anne Hutchinson, Washington Irving and Thomas Paine.
Early Twentieth-Century American Sonnets - Access the sonnets of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Rupert Brooke.
Mimi: American Literature - This site based at Keele University, UK, has links to American literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Authors include Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville and many more.
Native American Literature - Part of the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, this site has archived works by Native Americans. Note: Larger works can be retrieved in sections by way of a Table of Contents [TOC] choice. Items marked with an asterisk are available to UVa users only, due to licensing requirements.
The Online Books Page - search for literature of American writers
SallyAnne: American Literature - This site based at Keele University, UK, has links to American literature in the twentieth century. Authors include Truman Capote, Timothy Leary, Kurt Vonnegut and many more.
Twenty Great American Short Stories - Part of the American Literary Classics: A Chapter a Day Library web site, this portion is dedicated to American short stories. Find short stories by American greats, such as Irving, London and Twain.
16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) - Part of the larger multi-award winning Luminarium web site, this portion includes quotes, life and works of such authors as Thomas Campion, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, as well as essays and articles and additional resources.
Anthology of Middle English Literature: (1350-1485) - Part of the larger multi-award winning Luminarium web site, this portion includes quotes, life and works on: Chaucer, Sir Gawain, William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Mergery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory, as well as Everyman, Medieval Plays, Medieval Lyrics, essays and articles and additional resources.
British and Irish Authors on the Web - Created by a professor of Language & Culture at Nagoya University, Japan, get links to scholarly as well as irreverent web sites relating to authors of British and Irish literature. Authors are accessible by time period, and include such writers as Chaucer, Eliot and Swift.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - From MIT, get the Shakespeare comedy, history, tragedy, or poetry or your choice.
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) - Part of the larger multi-award winning Luminarium web site, this portion includes quotes, life and works such authors as John Donne, Robert Herrick, and Henry Vaughan, as well as essays and articles and additional resources.
The Middle English Collection - Part of the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, this site has archived works by British authors. Note: Larger works can be retrieved in sections by way of a Table of Contents [TOC] choice. Items marked with an asterisk are available to UVa users only, due to licensing requirements.
Oxford Book of English Verse - Part of Project Bartleby at Columbia University, this is an electronic version of the print book of the same name, published in 1919. It covers British verse from 1250 to 1900, and includes the works of Gray, Shelley, Brontë and many more. Also included are indexes of: authors, authors chronologically, titles and first lines.
Victorian Women Writer's Project - A project of Indiana University, this expanding site has collected the works of such authors as Harriet Martineau, Edith Nesbit, and Lady Jane Wilde.
Yahoo! United Kingdom Literature - Links to authors, classics, genres, periods, and more.
Banned Books On-line - From the On-Line Books Page, links to the full text of books which have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts, from Voltaire's Candide to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Best Books for Young Adults - current winners with links to lists of previous winners, nominations for next year;
Caldecott Medal - See the latest winners awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children, or look at past winners through the 1930's.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - This includes reviews of select children's books.
Children's authors.Children's Authors Biographies and Autobiographies - Links to biographical information about
Children's Literature Web - This site has links to children's literature resources for parents, teaches, storytellers and much more.
Children's Literature Web: Individual Authors - Part of the larger Children's Literature Web, this portion has links to the works of such classic children's authors as A.A. Milne, Beatrix Potter, and Beverly Cleary.
Children's Literature Web Information Guide - This wonderful site includes links to children's book awards.
Children's Notable Lists - from the American Library Association, Association for Library Service to Children.
Texas Bluebonnet Award - Developed in order to encourage the children of Texas to read more books.
Newbery Medal - See the latest winners awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, or look at past winners through the 1920's.
APA Publication Manual FAQ - From the American Psychological Association, get answers to there frequently asked citation questions.
APA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources - The APA version from Janet Walker, University of South Florida.
Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities - From Melvin E. Page at East Tennessee State University, this site is based on the Turabian style of citation.
MLA Style - The only site authorized by the Modern Language Association of America, find examples of citations for web sites, books, poems and more.
Columbia Guide to Online Style - This resource by Janet Walker, University of South Florida, has been endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing.
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
Bartlett's Quotations - From Project Bartleby. Type in your phrase or click on a list of some of the major sources- such as the Shakespeare and the Bible.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary - This dictionary offers definitions, pronunciations and an option to see synonyms by clicking on the Thesaurus button on the search results page of your term.
Online Rhyming Dictionary - Stumped for a rhyme? Enter the word you're trying to rhyme in the rhyming dictionary, and retrieve lots of possibilities.
Roget's Thesaurus - Type in your term and hit the enter key for synonyms.
Yahoo! Quotations - A collection of resources to track down your quote
Centre for Research in Early English Drama | Records of Early English Drama (REED) - This site from the University of Toronto covers Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern drama. Categories include: General Theatre Resources, Resources for Mediaeval and Early Modern Theatre, Other Theatre History Sites, Shakespeare, Early Music and Dance, General Resources for Medieval, Renaissance, or Early Modern Lit, E-Journals, and Research Links: MSS, Palaeography, and Documentary Editing.
Five 16th Century Latin Plays in English Translation - This site from the University of Toronto has, as it says translations of Latin plays. These translations are not just literal versions but are readable prose, close to the Latin, in the tradition of the Loeb translations of the Classics.
Middle English Plays - Part of the larger multi-award winning Luminarium web site, this portion includes several plays in middle English, as well as essays and articles.
Yahoo! Drama - Links to playwrights, scripts, and more.
Grammar Handbook - Based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this resource explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.
An On-line English Grammar - Based at the The Digital Education Network Ltd., UK, and authored by Anthony Hughes, this site provides basic information on the parts of speech, and even includes sound files of the alphabet in English.
Strunk's Elements of Style - Grammar problems? Try this resource from Project Bartleby.
Author Webliography - Alphabetical listing of individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.
Online Literary Criticism Collection - From the Internet Public Library, this collection is primarily evaluative or explanatory writings about works of literature. There has been an attempt to collect only works of some merit. The collection may be browsed by author's last name, by the title of a work, or by period of work. Note: A few of the site included have restricted access.
Bibliomania: Poetry - Access the poetry of William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, or Collected French Verse from this commercial site.
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions - From the Electronic Text Center Alderman Library, University of Virginia, get links to poetry such as Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which are archived on site, or linked to other sites.
Find a Poet - From the Academy of American Poets, this is a work in progress, though many poets have been completed. The completed sections include a brief biography, selected bibliography, and exhibits of the poet's work archived at this site and elsewhere. Poets include E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, William Butler Yeats and many more.
Glossary of Poetic Terms - Click on the letters of the alphabet to find definitions for Aclaic verse to Zeugma.
Index of Linked Poems - Designed to accompany a course on poetry taught at Western Michigan University, this site has collected the full text of a variety of poems. Find such poets as Plath and Donne.
Internet Poetry Archive - Based at the University of North Carolina, find poems and hear readings from the poets Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
Lyrical Ballads - From the University of Oregon, this html etext has been prepared from the original edition of Lyrical Ballads, the Bristol imprint of 1798. Poems include The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, and more.
Poet's Corner - This commercial site has an extensive collection of links to the works of from around the world, with an emphasis on British and American poets. This page is the beginning of the alphabetical listing of the poets by name. Access more of the list by clicking on other letters of the alphabet. Find such poets as Conrad Aiken, Sarojini Naidu, and A.W.E. O'Shaughnessy.
Oxford Book of English Verse - Part of Project Bartleby at Columbia University, this is an electronic version of the print book of the same name, published in 1919. It covers British verse from 1250 to 1900, and includes the works of Gray, Shelley, Brontë and many more. Also included are indexes of: authors, authors chronologically, titles and first lines.
Sonnet Central - The main portion of this site is devoted to English sonnets divided into the following time periods: Early, Elizabethan, 1615-1780, Romantic Era, Victorian, World War I, Early 20th Century. It also includes links to Sonnets from Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Nineteenth Century Americans and Early Twentieth Century Americans.
Twentieth-Century Poetry in English - This site based at Kobe University, Japan, and created by a faculty member, has archived some works by W. H. Auden, Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and William Butler Yeats, but also has an excellent set of links to the works of other Twentieth-Century Poetry in English.
Twenty Great American Short Stories - Part of the American Literary Classics: A Chapter a Day Library web site, this portion is dedicated to American short stories. Find short stories by American greats, such as Irving, London and Twain.
Web Sites Related to Editing - Developed by a professional copy editor with experience at Time magazine and The Washington Post, this site is a valuable tool for editing and style.
Yearbook of Experts, Authorities & Spokespersons - This site is searchable by keyword, topic, participants, or geographic indexes.
19th-Century German Stories - From Virginia Commonwealth University, works by Heinrich Hoffmann, Wilhem Buschm and the Grimm Brothers.
Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet - Based at North Carolina State University, Browse Alex by Authors, Date (time period text was written), Host (where text is archived), Language, Subject or Title. Many subjects, languages and authors are covered, including: catalogues to sociology; Arabic to Vietnamese; and Abbott to Zazen.
Banned Books On-line - From the On-Line Books Page, links to the full text of books which have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts, from Voltaire's Candide to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Bibliomania: Classic Fiction - Part of the larger Bibliomania site, this portion covers classic works of fiction. Access such works as James Joyce's Ulysses, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, or Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Celebration of Women Writers - Part of the larger The Online Books Page site at Carnegie Mellon, this portion covers women writers through the ages. Browse women writers by century or country.
Classics at the Online Literature Library - This site is the personal project of a literature lover and continues to evolve. The texts archived here have generally been copied from sites like Project Gutenburg and converted to HTML documents, rather than left in plain text. Authors covered include Lewis Carrol, Voltaire, H.G. Wells and many more.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Based at the University of Evansville, Indiana, this multi-award winning site covers the Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. It includes primary texts archived at the site, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Genesis, The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead) and more.
French Literature - From the the Western European Specialists Section (WESS) of Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), part of the larger Electronic Text Collections in Western European, this site has links to French Literature, Poetry Collections, and Individual Authors. Note: Most of the collection is in French.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Literary Texts - From Fordham University, the emphasis is on the religious, but includes other resources as well. Access Beowulf, The Song of Roland and many more.
Labyrinth Library - This site is sponsored by Georgetown University and includes links to texts in Latin, Old English, Middle English, French, Italian, and Spanish and Iberian. Works in English include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, Orpheus and Eurydice and more.
Literary Resources on the Net - Listing of literary resources organized by time period and geographical area.
Literature@SunSITE - This resource from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, is building a collection of digital texts. Access the works of such authors as Jane Austen, Upton Sinclair and Joseph Conrad. Of special interest is the extensive Jack London collection which includes not only literary works, but nonfiction works such as Jack London's Journalism, as well.
Modern English Collection - Part of the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, this site has archived works by American and British authors. Note: Larger works can be retrieved in sections by way of a Table of Contents [TOC] choice. Items marked with an asterisk are available to UVa users only, due to licensing requirements.
Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) - Browse this resource from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE by Title, Author, Genre or Language. Access Medieval and Classic literature and historical documents such as The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Troilus and Criseyde, or The Fall of Troy.
Perseus Project's Texts & Translations - Hosted by Tufts University, this site is also sponsored by Harvard University, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Grant program and many others. Perseus has received many awards for its outstanding coverage of Greek, and more recently Roman, literature, history, art, and archaeology. This link points specifically to the Texts & Translations page, which has links to many of the primary texts archived at Perseus, such as Euclid's Elements, and Homer's Iliad.
Project Bartleby - Full text collection including classic literature as well as reference works.
Project Gutenberg - One of the most comprehensive collections of electronic texts. Many classic and contemporary works of literature.
Renascence Editions - This site based at the University of Oregon has a collection of works printed in English, 1477-1799. It includes works by authors Bacon, Gascoigne, Sidney and many more.
Spanish Literature - From the the Western European Specialists Section (WESS) of Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), part of the larger Electronic Text Collections in Western European, this site has links to Spanish literature, individual authors, poetry and literary magazines. Note: Most of the collection is in Spanish.
University of Virginia Electronic Text Library - Large collection of electronic texts. Holdings include collections of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Spanish, as well as some French, Japanese, and English texts.
Writing Black - From the University of Keele, UK, this site has collected links to Black writers, generally American, such as Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass and writers who portrayed Blacks in their writing, such as Mark Twain. There are also to historical tests, such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and The Emancipation Proclamation, as well as a select collection of other Internet resources on Black or African American topics.
Resources for Writers - Part of the larger OWL (On-line Writing Lab), a project of the Purdue University Writing Lab, this portion of the site has links to online handouts created for the writing lab at Purdue. Topics include: General Writing Concerns, Writing Research Papers & Citing Sources, Writing in the Job Search, Professional Writing, English as a Second Language, Parts of Speech, Sentence Construction, Punctuation and Spelling.
University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide - This site based at the University of Victoria, Canada, is an excellent resource for the writing process. It includes information on: Essays, Paragraphs, Sentences, Words, Sources, Literary Terms (Alphabetically or by Category), Summaries, Logic, Grammar and Marking Symbols.
Web Sites Related to Editing - Developed by a professional copy editor with experience at Time magazine and The Washington Post, this site is a valuable tool for editing and style.
Writing World - offers more than 250 articles on just about every aspect of writing (fiction, nonfiction, freelancing, greeting cards, international, etc.), plus over 500 links to other resources, market information, contest listings, and more. It also offers a free biweekly newsletter that offers feature articles, columns, markets, contests, links, and news from the writing/publishing world.
Writing Techniques Handbook - Based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this resource offers advice on various elements of the writing process, including general techniques, and techniques specific to various genres of writing.
Yahoo! Writing Resources - Categories of writing sites that range from grammar and usage to contests.
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