Language and Literature     

• Absolute Shakespeare  The plays, sonnets, poems, biographical information and information on the Globe Theater. http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/
• Academy of American Poets Poets, poems, news, events, discussions, readings...for and about poets. www.poets.org/
• AllReaders  A Readers' advisory service with thousands of reviews from other readers, divided by genre. Search by plot, character type, setting, theme, and style. http://www.allreaders.com/
• American and English Verse 1250-1920.  Indexed by author, title, first line, and chronologically. www.bartleby.com/verse/
• Arts and Letters Daily  "A portal for intellectuals", this  site covers every area of the humanities, with   links to magazines and daily news and reviews. http://Cybereditions.com/aldaily/
• AskOxford From Oxford University Press, this site will be welcome to wordsmiths and those who love language. It includes a word of the day, quote of the week, language and writing tips, word games, educational resources and a question and answer area. www.askoxford.com
• Bartleby  Bartleby has full text poetry, fiction and non-fiction as well as some major reference works to the  classics. Also includes dictionaries, thesaurus, and more. www.bartleby.com/
• Booklist The American Library Association's book review journal. www.ala.org/booklist/index.html
• Classic Reader This collection of over 600 books and 900 short stories may be browsed by author, title or type of work. Included children's literature. All works are in the public domain and may be read online or downloaded. www.classicreader.com/
• Copyright Clearance Center Here you may get permission to use copyrighted materials. www.copyright.com/
• Free Book Notes This is a very useful index to the free online study guides available on the Internet for over 250 classic novels. www.freebooknotes.com/
• The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage  Prepared for Harvard University's Chaucer classes. this is  a  collection of information on Chaucer and his times, as well as the complete text of the Canterbury Tales.  icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/ 
• GradeSaver ClassicNotes  Analyses and summaries of classic literature. There is also author information, links to other sites, and information on how to cite the page. Very useful for the student doing literary analysis. www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/
• Literary History An index to free Internet articles in which  all the sites meet basic academic standards. Useful for students, scholars, teachers, reading groups, and general readers. http://www.literaryhistory.com
• Literary Index  This is an index to the Gale literary series, but it can help in discovering which author wrote a particular book, or assembling  a list of writers by nationality, birth or death date. www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex/
• Luminarium   Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century English literature. For each author, there is a biography, list of works, essays, related books, and links to other sites. www.luminarium.org/
• The Milton Reading Room  John Milton's major poetry and some of his prose. Includes Paradise Lost. www.dartmouth.edu/~milton 
• Modern American Poetry  A multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry from Oxford University Press, 2000. Contains reviews, interviews, analyses of over 100 poets. www.english.uiuc.edu/maps
• Official MLA Page Citation style. www.mla.org/
• Online Book Club  Here you may sign up to receive two or three chapters from any of 11 different book clubs, ranging from Fiction to Romance to Teens, to Pre-publication books. Each day you'll receive text from a book. After 2 or 3 chapters are completed, a new book will begin.   www.dearreader.com/
• Online Books Page Links to more than 13,000 full text free books. digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
• Poetry Archives  Over 3600 classical poems by 137 poets, all non-copyrighted. There is also a forum for discussion. www.emule.com/poetry
• Poetry Portal  A directory of poetry links of all kinds--poems online, events, styles, criticism, courses and writers' aids. www.poetry-portal.com
• Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web) A directory of web resources on American literature. Includes general teaching resources, syllabi from colleges and universities, and author chronologies. There is also a collection of annotated links.  www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/
• SearcheBooks.com  Another good search tool, this one searches the full text of thousands of online books. The results link you to the page the text is on and to the main site of the book. www.searchebooks.com/
• Shakespeare--Complete Works The complete text of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. http://the-tech.mit.edu/shakespeare/works.html
• Shakespeare in Quarto "The British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642," is the description given for this website, which enables anyone to view the texts. There is also background information, a timeline, a section showing how the plays have changed both in print and in performance over the years, a glossary, and further references. http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
• Short Stories Complete texts of both fiction and non-fiction , with both classics and newer works. Includes Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, de Maupassant, and other well known authors. www.short-stories.co.uk/
• Spark Notes Like Cliff Notes, but these are composed by Harvard students and alumni and are free. Now includes study guides to math, chemistry, physics and other subjects, as well as SAT. www.sparknotes.com/
• What Do I Read Next?
• Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) This collection of 19th century American fiction from Indiana University includes every known novel published between 1851 and 1875.  Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville are among the 862 authors. Not all texts have been edited. Browse by author or keyword, or do a search. You may view as text or image. www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/

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