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Literature SitesPoetryDown the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
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| The American Literature I Index, to 1865 | This website is provided by Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D., of the Department of English at San Antonio College. This site provides links to information on major American writers before 1865, such as Bradford, Edwards, Wheatley, Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. | |
| The American Literature II Index, 1865 - Present | This website is provided by Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D., of the Department of English at San Antonio College. This site provides links to information on major American writers since 1865, such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, DuBois, Twain, Hughes, Morrison, and others. | |
| American Literature on the Web | An excellent collection of links to sites on the Internet especially dealing with American literature and its social, cultural contexts. | |
| Anthology of American Literature | The interactive website of George McMichael' Anthology of American Literature, published by Prentice Hall. The site contains practice quizzes, study guide, and resources. An excellent site for students and faculty who use the textbook - or for students preparing for exams with other textbooks. | |
| geoffreychaucer.org | An annotated guide the Geoffrey Chaucer online resources, edited by David Wilson-Okamura of Macalester College | |
| The Chaucer Pedagogy Page | "Online Assistance for Teachers and Students of Chaucer and the Later Middle Ages." | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary | This site maintained by The University of South Carolina provides essays, articles, voice and film clips, biography, and works about and by F. Scott Fitzgerald. | |
| William Faulkner on the Web | This site is provided by Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D., of the Department of English at San Antonio College. This site provides links to surveys of British, American, African-American, Mexican, and world literature. | |
| The Death of a Salesman Study Resource Center | This site provides a detailed study guide to the play by Arthur Miller, including reviews of the play, critical articles about the play and by Miller, interviews with Miller, and biographical information on Miller. | |
| Ernest Hemingway in Oak Park | This site provides biographical information of Hemingway, including a tour of his home in Oak Park and links to many other excellent sites for learning about this important American author. You can listen to recordings of Hemingway, read discussions of his writing, and view his several homes. One of the best sites for connecting to Hemingway the man and the writer. | |
| John Steinbeck | This site is one of the most extensive on the Internet. It contains study guides for all of Steinbeck's major works, biographical material, a research center, and links to more than a dozen Steinbeck websites. | |
| Mark Twain in Cyberspace | Mark Twain in Cyberspace is a wonderful site for connecting to Mark Twain's works, literary criticism and study guides about those works, and virtual tours of his homes and travels. An excellent journey into the life and mind of Mark Twain. | |
| "Fifty Years of Desire" | An Online NewsHour transcript of the November 11, 1997, broadcast on the 50th anniversary production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. | |
| The Thomas Wolfe Web Page | This site, provided by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, provides links to biography, photo albums, virtual tours of Wolfe's home in Asheville, and collections of Wolfe's works at the UNC-Chapel Hill Library. You can also connect to the online resources of the North Carolina Collection in the UNC-CH library. | |
| The San Antonio College LitWeb | This site is provided by Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D., of the Department of English at San Antonio College. This site provides links to surveys of British, American, African-American, Mexican, and world literature. | |
| Yahoo! Arts and Humanities | Use the Yahoo! search engine to connect to literature websites. | |
| Short Stories of George MacDonald | A complete list of the short stories, with links to web-sites with E-texts. | |
| The Republic of Pemberley | Huge site celebrating Jane Austin's work. | |
| Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era | Courting customs background to Victorian social novels (e.g. Austen). | |
| Cliff-Notes Literature Notes | Useful even if you don't have to write a term paper. | |
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| Representative Poetry On-line | About 2,900 English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke: 3 Gedichte | Three poems by Rainer Maria Rilke in German and English translation read (in quicktime audio). | |
| Friedrich Hölderlin - Selected Poems | Translations by James Mitchell of the great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who inspired the philosopher Martin Heidegger, among others. | |
| 'A Faun's Afternoon' | An exquisite online translation and commentary of 'L'après-midi d'un faune' by Stéphane Mallarmé. | |
| Bartleby Verse | American & English poetry, 1250-1920 | |
| Modern American Poetry | MAPS is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry from the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | |
| Poetry Pages | A multimedia feature of the Atlantic Unbound (online version of the Atlantic Monthly) devoted to poets and poetry, classic and contemporary. Includes An Audible Anthology "Atlantic Monthly poets read aloud their work from the current and past issues of the magazine." For example, Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight with RealAudio reading by the poet Jane Hirshfield. | |
| T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' | Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. But to what purpose Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves I do not know. | |
| Sonnets to Orpheus | Fifty-five poems by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Howard A. Landman. | |
| Blake Digital Text Project | "A single (huge!) text file containing a complete version of Blake's poetry and prose. If you are searching for a specific line of Blake, this is the way to find it." | |
| The complete texts of William Shakespeare's plays | About.com's great edition of the bard's works with commentary. Only flaw is the presence of obtrusive online ads. | |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare with other resources | |
| Shakespeare Bookshelf | The complete works of William Shakespeare from the Internet Public Library with a search engine for quotes. | |
| Poems by Galway Kinnell | Excellent contemporary poetry, from the plagiarist.com. | |
| Poems by Billy Collins | Touching, humorous poetry by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. From the plagiarist.com. | |
| PoemHunter | 94,413+ poems from 10,619+ poets, 39,210+ songs, 64,870+ quotations - lots to browse - searchable | |
| Poetry Links at About.com | Many resource links to poetry. | |
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