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A comprehensive collection of links to classical studies material maintained by the University of Florida Library. It includes Local Resources, Guides/Subject Indices, Directories, Bibliographies, Journals, Electronic Texts, Databases, Art & Archaeology, Classical Mythology, Instructional Resources and Other Resources.
Offers "easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources." Maintained at the University of Michigan.
"A collection of pre-Victorian women's writing in English... The texts cover a huge range of genres and topics, and represent an unparalleled resource for the study of women's writing and history, and of English literature generally." (Brown U).
An attempt to provide a comprehensive collection of pointers to eighteenth-century material across a variety of disciplines. It includes links to collections of texts, documents, conference information, societies, bibliographies, biographies, exhibitions and web pages of individuals working on the eighteenth-century. It brings together a tremendous amount of material from and on this period available on the net. Maintained by Jack Lynch (Rutgers).
A hypertext to help understand the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. Provides a list of terms, explanations of terms and links to occurrences of those words in texts. (University of Virginia).
A historical anthology of English poetry from the early medieval period to the early twentieth century. It includes poems as well as criticism of poetry. It provides author, title, date and keyword indexes. The current editor is Ian Lancashire (U of Toronto).
A collection of American poetry published prior to 1920 (mostly 19th century) coded in SGML in conformance with the Text Encoding Initiative. Verse was selected for this project "from standard bibliographies, anthologies, and histories of American literature....These were supplemented by specialized bibliographies of writing by American women and people of color." A joint project of the Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press.
"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate, SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period." Edited by Perry Willett, Indiana U.
Part of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, it offers a large collection of literary works, marked up with SGML in conformance with the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. It includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present. In most instances, the print sources are clearly noted. Many texts include illustrations.
This online collection of Dime Novels provides the complete text of a small, but selective, sample from one of Stanford's collections series, Secret Service. Secret Service was a 32-page weekly magazine of detective stories.
Explores the influence of 45 writers on U.S. culture. These include Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Black Elk, Will Rogers and William Buckley as well as other literary and historical figures. Produced by C-SPAN to accompany a TV program.
Although this site is a companion to the print volume, it functions independently, offering a wealth of information about modern American poets. It includes poetry, biographical material, illustrations, reviews, interviews and syllabi. Edited by Cary Nelson at University of Illinois.
Selections from a 41-volume series entitled "The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography". Built and maintained by Bruce Fort, University of Virginia.
A joint venture of University of North Carolina Press and the UNC Office of Information Technology. Its goal is to make available selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The initial offering includes Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz and Philip Levine. It contains the text of selected poems, critical material and audio clips of the poets reading their own work.
An historical anthology of English poetry from the early medieval period to the early twentieth century. It includes poems as well as criticism of poetry. It provides author, title, date and keyword indexes. The current editor is Ian Lancashire (U of Toronto).
A collection of American poetry published prior to 1920 (mostly 19th century) coded in SGML in conformance with the Text Encoding Initiative. Verse was selected for this project "from standard bibliographies, anthologies, and histories of American literature....These were supplemented by specialized bibliographies of writing by American women and people of color." A joint project of the Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press.
The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress dates back to 1943. It contains nearly two thousand recordings—of poets and prose writers participating in literary events at the Library’s Capitol Hill campus as well as sessions at the Library’s Recording Laboratory.
Although this site is a companion to the print volume, it functions independently, offering a wealth of information about modern American poets. It includes poetry, biographical material, illustrations, reviews, interviews and syllabi. Edited by Cary Nelson at University of Illinois.
A collection of English-language sonnets including sonnets from Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and a few from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden in English translation. For each author a brief introduction and sometimes a portrait precede links to individual sonnets. Maintained by Eric Blomquist.
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