Internet Resources
This page contains links to the best English literature resources on the web.
The websites on this page are librarian selected and great starting points to find online collections of
Remember: when using any site from the internet for research purposes evaluate the website
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Poetry Websites
- Absolute ShakespeareAbsolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
- Bartleby.com: Great Books OnlineThis internet publisher of literature, reference and verse provide students and researchers with unlimited access to a number of anthologies of poetry from different eras
- Beowulf Online - University of KentuckyThis site is an image based edition of the poem Beowulf, and features the manuscript, glossary, transcripts and maps.
- British Women Poets: 1789-1832An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832.
- Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto LibrariesCollection of Canadian poets with biographies, list of published works, and sample poems.
- Great Books IndexAn Index to Online Great Books in English Translation
- Modern American PoetryProvides biographical and criticism on poets of our time. Content includes excerpts from previously published analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations and much more.
- Open Source ShakespeareThe complete works of Shakespeare, a powerful search mechanism, a concordance, and statistical analysis of the texts.
- Poetry ArchiveAs well as new recordings by contemporary poets, the Poetry Archive also contains historic recordings by poets from the past.
- Poets.orgPoets.org contains thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings.
- Representative Poetry Online - University of TorontoCollection of poetry, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present.
- Shaekspeare's Sonnets OnlineAll the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise.
