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LiteratureGeneral Sites | Electronic Texts | Poetry
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Literature
General
Sites | Electronic Texts | Poetry
American
Library Association
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists
View information on various book awards and lists.
Booklist
http://www.ala.org/booklist/
The Web site of the American Library Association's Booklist provides access to reviews of books for adults, young adults, and children, written by librarians. The overall ALA Web site is searchable, and you can browse the reviews by category (Adult, Youth, Nonfiction, etc.). From January 1996 to the present; reviews appear approximately one month after their appearance in the print version of Booklist
BookWire
http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/
BookWire calls itself "the first place to look for book information," and it does offer an impressive number of features, including reviews from The Quarterly Black Review of Books, The Boston Book Review, The Asia Pacific Review, Computer Book Review, and others. The overall site is searchable by author, title, or publisher name and the individual review sources can be browsed. There is a nice Frequently Asked Questions list about book publishing available also.
Fiction
Genres
http://www.manuslit.com/old/Definitions.htm
Defines the different literary genres
Genreflecting
http://www.genreflecting.com/Genres.html
Literary
Calendar
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml
An almanac of literary information. Click on a day of the current month or choose a new month, then click on a date. Provides brief descriptions of notable literary events and many authors and/or works are clickable, leading to a biography of the author and/or to electronic texts of their works. Scroll down the page to search the site by dates, short phrases, or names.
Literary
Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
An annotated index to Shakespeare-related sites on the Internet. Considered a resource for scholars of Shakespeare, many of the links tend to be rather academic; however, this site is so comprehensive and huge, that there are many links which would be worthwhile for high school students. There are links to critical essays on specific works, information on Shakespeare's life and times, a chronological listing of all his works and electronic texts
A
Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html
Women writers throughout history—from 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Includes biographical and bibliographical information and links to other related material.
Oklahoma
Sequoyah Book Award
http://www.yukon.lib.ok.us/sequoyah.html
Provides current and past award winners and master lists of nominated books.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
Excellent source for information on specific authors by period of American history from the Colonial Period to the Present. Additional information including obituaries for some authors, introductory essays for each period (e.g., Early 19th Century Transcendentalism, The Harlem Renaissance) and bibliographies.
Resources
for American Literature
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/index.html
Student works, interactive text, interpretations of several major American works including A Raisin in the Sun, The Yellow Wallpaper, Young Goodman Brown, McTeague, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Blue Hotel, Langston Hughes' poems, American poetry and songs, and a few others.
Bibliomania:
Classic Fiction
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html
Provides complete text for over 40 classic works by the likes of Jane Austen, James Joyce, and George Eliot.
Classic
Short Stories
http://www.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/shorts/
A collection of short stories by the likes of Hawthorne, Chekhov, Poe and many others. Some include biographies. None include analysis.
Electronic
Text Center
http://e-text.lib.virginia.edu/english.html
Choose from the Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present), the Middle English Collection (written in Middle English language), and much more
Internet
Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/
"A searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary."
The
On-Line Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
A large collection of links to complete books on-line. Allows searching by author or title and includes a subject directory based on Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Luminarium:
16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, etc. Includes essays and articles on the various works, biographical information, links to related sources, bibliographies, complete texts. Provides audio clips.
Project
Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/
The ultimate collection of electronic texts searchable by author or title.
The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
M.I.T.-sponsored site offers the full text of the complete works of Shakespeare (tragedies, histories, comedies, poetry). It includes the ability to search the texts using keywords.
The
Modern English Collection
http://e-text.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
A fairly large collection of "fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present." Browse by author name or by subject category including African American (many slave narratives, poems, and letters), Native American and American Civil War. You may also search the collection by keyword, author and/or title.
The
Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/
“The
largest organization in the country dedicated to the art of poetry.”
American
Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
The
project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior
to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital
form.
The
Haiku Society of America
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
Haiku
collections and links
Modern
American Poetry
http://aol.bartleby.com/104/
Modern American Poetry contains over 130 poems from American masters such as Ezra Pound, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Vincent Benét, Emily Dickinson, and many others.
The
Complete Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=9d5b5e747a7bfe89cf961
4f84d61898f;idno=PoeEACompl;c=amverse
Find famous and infamous poems by Poe in full text online. Searchable or browsable site.
Poets'
Corner
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html
The most diverse collection of poetry on the Web, containing thousands of works by several hundred poets, both familiar and obscure.
Poetry
Daily
http://www.poems.com/
Daily poems and links to poets
Poetry
180
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Poet
Laureate Billy Collins hosts this Website with a poem for every day of the
school year. “Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or
read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year.”
Verse.Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/