LITERARY RESOURCES
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Colletion - (Password protected off campus). Offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works.
Gale Student Resources in Context - (Password protected off-campus). An excellent source for criticism of poetry and literature and primary source documents for History.
Questia (Password protected). Full-text books, journals, magazines and newspapers.
eBooks on EBSCO - (See POWER Library). Full-text, scholarly and popular non-fiction books online.
Contemporary Authors - Literary biographies and lists of sources for authors who lived in the 20th and 21st centuries. Global in scope.
AmericArtes - celebrating the visual, performing and literary arts of Latin America.
American Literature Sites - An exhaustive listing of American literature sites, general literature sites, books online, 19th-century periodicals and primary sources, from Gonzaga University.
Bartleby - Great Books Online - Comprehensive publisher on the web of literature, non-fiction, verse and reference works. A trustworthy place to locate classic works. Searchable and browsable.
Literary Criticism on the Web from the Internet Public Library - Site features links to selected online criticism of major authors in American and British literature. Searchable by Author's last name, title, or literary period.
Literary Resources on the Net - Jack Lynch at Rutgers University has put together and maintains this site. Search for a (single) word or choose one of the following categories: Classical & Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century (a separate archive, not covered by the search engine), Romantic, Victorian British, Twentieth-Century British & Irish, American, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Other National Literatures, Bibliography & History of the Book, Hypertext, and Miscellaneous.
Historic Quotes and Proverbs Archive – historic and literary quotes.
Think Exist Quotations - 300,000 quotations by 20,000 authors.
The Quotation Page - Over 26,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors, and more are added daily.
Famous Poets and Poems - A free poetry site with a large collection of poems and quotes from over 631 poets.
Poets.org - Website of The Academy of American Poets where you can find essays on poetry, biographies of more than 450 poets, text of more than 1400 poems, RealAudio of one hundred poems read by their authors or other poets and much more.
Project Gutenberg - The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). Over 30 years, by the end of 2002, Project Gutenberg had exceeded 6267 total Project Gutenberg eBooks.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
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.
Shakespeare Resource Center - Here you'll find collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information of all sorts on William Shakespeare, including: information about Shakespeare, his works, the Globe Theater, Elizabethan England, a guide to the Bard's English and more.
LibriVox - goal is to make all books in the public domain available as free audiobooks. Volunteers record the books, chapter by chapter, and release the audio files back onto the net.
American Literature - Classic American short stories and novels in full text.
Using English.Com - A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources.
Paris Review Author Interviews - A big archive of interviews with famous literary figures: T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, etc. Click on the Interviews link.
