General Resources: Writing Aids

• The Writing Center. Help with writing problems, grammar and usage from Princeton University.
  
• Elements of Style by Strunk and White full text of the work from Bartleby.com.
  
• The Internet Public Library provides access to reference resources, to the full text of many works in the public domain, and to much more. The full text (Online texts) are searchable.
  • Books and Writing resources and links from the teen division of The Internet Public Library.
  • Books on Line from The Internet Public Library provides access to full texts of works in the public domain.

General Resources: Literature and Full-text Resources

• eServer or The English Server includes collections of fiction, film & television, poetry, and history. The resources are searchable.
  
• Humanities Text Initiative of the University of Michigan provides access to the full text of many authors and texts. Includes Middle English works, the Bible and the Making of America (MoA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• The Internet Public Library provides searchable access to full text of works in the public domain.
• The ARTFL Bible includes search and browse access to the King James Bible plus other versions of the Bible: the Luther German, Louis Segond French, and the Latin Vulgate.
• Library of Congress
  
• Project Bartleby, full text resources from Columbia University, includes access to the Harvard Classics, the Rare Book Room with illuminated documents, music scores, references resources, etc.
• Project Gutenberg contains full text access to over 20,000 books and works. Search by author, title, subject, language, or Library of Congress classification. Site also provides audio books.
  
• University of Virginia Electronic Texts provides the full text on many works. Some items are restricted to U of V students and faculty.
  
• Literature Webliography: An extensive guide to literature resources from Louisiana State University.
• English Renaissance resources from Tufts University (Includes Shakespeare, Marlowe).
• Glossary of Literary Terms (Virtual Salt) by Robert Harris, writer and educator with more than 25 years of teaching experience at the college and university level.
• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples maintained by Ross Scaife of the University of Kentucky.

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General Author Resources

• Author Webliography Extensive access to authors and their works from Louisiana State University.
• The Chaucer Scriptorium. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales resources
• Great writers and poets Access to home pages and resources for many authors. Site maintained by Piet Wesselman (Book Lovers).
• Project Bartleby includes access to the full text of writings by George Chapman, Agatha Christie, F.S. Fitzgerald, H.W. Fowler, Herman Melville, John Stuart Mill, Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, William Strunk, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many poets (see Poetry section)
• Books On-Line provides free access to over 13,000 books, news, archives, and more.
• Audio Specials: Reading and interview with famous authors, a feature of The New York Times On the Web. Requires registration..
• Yahoo index to authors Authors may be accessed through the A to Z listening

Individual Author Resources

• Countee Cullen "Life's Rendezvous" an early work from The Magpie Sings, a literary magazine of De Witt Clinton High School in NYC.
• Modern American Poets provides access to 161 individual poets (texts, biographies, articles, etc.) from the University of Illinois.
• Sylvia Plath Page Biography, poems, and more related to Sylvia Plath.
• Victorian Women Writers Project Full text of many British Victorian Women writers. An Indiana University project.
• Virginia Hamilton Website of Virginia Hamilton who died February 19, 2002.
• The life and works of Virginia Woolf web site. This site includes links to her writings and works derived from them such as movies, operas, etc.
• J.K. Rowling Information about the books and the author of the Harry Potter books. Links to interviews included.
• Biography of Rita Dove, 1993 U.S. Poet Laureate. Interview with Rita Dove.
  
• Interview with Raymond Carver (1938-1988) about his shorty story "Cathedral"

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Poetry

• Poetry & Literature Center of the Library of Congress. Includes archive of recorded poetry.
• 180 days of poetry by Poet Laureate, Billy Collins
• Yahoo Poets list The list includes access to authors of different styles and forms of poetry.
• The English Server: poetry section
• American Verse University of Michigan collection of American Verse. Most Full text. Allows searching or browsing. To get list of authors, click on Browse. To read the text click on the HTML button of the desired text.
• Project Bartleby of Columbia University. Includes full text of poems by Emily Dickinson, W.E. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, G.M. Hopkins, A.E. Houseman, John Keats, D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Siegfried Sassoon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Untermeyer, Walt Whitman, Wordsworth, William Yeats. Section devoted to poetry and poets
• British Poetry and Poets 1780-1910 From the University of Virginia Archives
• English On-line library of University of Virginia. Includes African American writers. Some restricted to U of VA.
• Search for poetry by author, title, subject, language from the Project Gutenberg collection.
• The American Academy of Poets Website, Includes links to poets and National Poetry Month (April) events.
• Modern American Poetry Anthology Online companion to Oxford University Press publication.
• Lost Poets of the Great War hypertext document of poetry of World War I developed by Harry Rusche of Emory University.
• British Women Romantic Poets from U.C. Davis. Many minor poets included.
• Representative Poetry On-line. collection of poets writing in English from Old English to living poets. Includes about 2,500 poems by 403 poets. Access by poet, title, timeline, keyword and first line.
• Chinese poetry
  • Lu Xun (called the father of modern Chinese poetry): links to his life, poems, and revolutionary activities; Another Website with biography and poetry in English and Chinese characters; Books and writers Website about Lu Xun that includes his short stories

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Literature

• University of Virginia Electronic Texts. Full text on many works.
  
• Biblical literature, the King James Bible includes search and browse functions by book and/or words. Other versions of the Bible may also be searched
• Resources about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from Luminarium, a source for Medieval literature. Includes music, texts, background.
  • Sir Gawain from Pace University. Includes link to Sir Gawain text in Middle English, analysis, background, links to other sites.
  • Also from Pace University: a class project site on Sir Gawain

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Classics: Greeks
Odyssey

• The Trojan War: An Illustrated companion
• The Odyssey: An Illustrated companion
• The Classics Pages, created by Loxias (aka Andrew Wilson) in the UK, includes information about classics, about Greek literature, drama, poetry, life and culture, etymology, arts, ancient technology, and more.
• Ancient Greek World Culture Greece, the land and time, daily life, economy, religion & death.
• Perseus Classics server at Tufts Full Texts available in Greek or English. Also art, architecture, and archaeology.
• Exhibit about Hercules and the stories about Hercules.
• Information and exhibit about the Ancient Olympics from Perseus.
• Internet Classics Archive at MIT Greek and Roman Classics. Site also links to other resources. (As of 11/7/01 not all aspects working. Click on Browse to locate texts by author.)
• Greek and Roman History links

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Reference and Miscellaneous

• OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Access restricted to Urban School. Requires password for remote access.
• Roget's Thesaurus from ARTFL. Searchable
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• A+ Writing and Research Guide from the Teen Division of The Internet Public Library

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Last updated 3 January 2007.