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.

A searchable archive of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors. Includes mainly Greek and Roman texts (in English translation), but also some Chinese and Persian works, complete with commentary." Maintained by Daniel C. Stevenson (MIT).

A collection of classical & medieval literary texts with a powerful search engine. Created by Douglas Killings (University of California, Berkeley).

Created and maintained by Maria C. Pantelia (UNH).

Maintained by James O'Donnell at Georgetown University.

"An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece." Gregory Crane (Tufts University) is Director of the Project.

"An interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean."

A large collection of medieval (predominantly European) resources, in various European languages, including English (Georgetown).

Includes links to full text material from the medieval period, an index of selected and excerpted texts for teaching, secondary sources, multimedia, etc. Edited by Paul Halsall

"The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary & cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions." All texts are under copyright. Russell Peck (University of Rochester) is general editor.

Includes material by and about Chaucer, Gawain, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Malory, plus Medieval plays and lyrics. Edited by Anniina Jokinen.

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 online works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799. These texts have been carefully produced, but are not being presented as scholarly editions. The general editor is Richard Bear (University of Oregon).

Part of Luminarium.org. http://www.luminarium.org/

"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 digitized collection of 18th and 19th century English journals, including a minimum of twenty year runs of Gentlemans' Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. This is a joint project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford.

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 website devoted to the study of Romantic period literature and culture. It contains, for example, an Anthologies section which "seeks to provide a comprehensive list of all the major anthologies currently available for the study of Romantic literature, tables of contents for those anthologies, supplementary anthologies that assist the study of Romantic literature, and errata for various anthologies."

Provides concordances for selected works by these five poets. Maintained by R.J.C. Watt at University of Dundee.

An archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle. Maintained by Elizabeth Fay at U. Mass., Boston.

"Allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists)."
Cardiff University

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.

Selections from a 41-volume series entitled The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Built and maintained by Bruce Fort (U. of Va.).

Over 2800 novels and other works of fiction published between 1851 and 1875, with more to be added. The site consists of scanned images of the original volumes. A project of many Big Ten university libraries hosted at Indiana University

Lists important articles, books and reviews dealing with the Victorian period. The bibliography is connected to the journal Victorian Studies at the University of Indiana.

A networked interface for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship, NINES is " a project to found a publishing environment for aggregated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies, British and American."

An offshoot of the Victoria discussion list, "VRW is intended to supply a handy set of tips and links to help Victorianists find practical information they need, whether it's an archive catalogue, a listserv address, a sample syllabus, or a journal's submission guidelines." Maintained by Patrick Leary, Indiana University.

A hypertext containing a great deal of material on Victorian literature, history and society. Maintained by George Landow.

An index to articles and other information available freely on the web concerning 19th century English, Scottish, and Irish authors.

"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.

Contains information on, as well as the text of poems by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and others. There is also a chronology of World War I and a bibliography. Also includes some audio material. Maintained by Harry Rusche (Emory University).

Pieces range from mere blurbs to scholarly essays.

An index to free internet articles on topics in English and American literature.

"A standard reference source for the study of (20th-century) English literature. It includes information about the manuscript holdings of repositories of all sizes, from the British Library to small-town museums, and about literary authors of all genres, from major poets to minor science fiction writers and romantic novelists." (University of Reading)

A hypertext devoted to Beat authors maintained by Levi Asher - "unaffiliated with any corporation, university or organization." Contains biographical material, bibliographies, photographs and much interesting information about the Beats and Beat culture.

Includes an impressive collection of articles and other material from and about American literature, art, politics and sociology of the 1950's. Maintained by Alan Filreis for a course at the University of Pennsylvania.

Well organized site providing a wide range of material on science fiction, horror & fantasy writing. Includes interviews, reviews, an author directory & more.

An index to over 50,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror. Compiled by Hal W. Hall (Texas A & M).

A catalog of the world's largest open-shelf collection of science fiction (broadly defined). It also contains hours and membership information.

"An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which is being developed as a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in medical humanities." It is a multi-institutional project, centered at NYU School of Medicine, coordinated by Dr. Felice Aull.

A collection of pointers to interactive fiction resources on the net, including connections to guides to writing interactive fiction, authoring tools, ftp sites, usenet FAQs, newsgroups and newsletters. Maintained by Scott Reilly (Carnegie Mellon).

Includes the Department of Objects and Delusions, manifestos, the surrealist compliment generator, personalized Dada readings, and an assortment of texts. Also contains links to pages dedicated to Surrealist authors.

Provides an introduction to contemporary postcolonial authors. Organized by country, the site offers geographical and historical background for each country and a wide variety of essays on each author. The site is directed by George Landow at Brown University but many pages are by his students.

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.

Using maps and photographs from the collections of the Library of Congress, this exhibition documents the connections between America's geography and its literature.Language of the Land

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.

Provides an overview of literature of the American South, a bibliography by the late Robert Bain, the full text of about 70 primary works, and a considerable amount of critical material. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Over 1700 novels and other works of fiction published between 1851 and 1875, with more to be added. The site consists of scanned images of the original volumes. A project of many Big Ten university libraries hosted at Indiana University.

"This site was conceived ... to make the writings of Native American authors, particularly poets, both more visible and more widely available."

Devoted to the study of environmental literature and culture. Its resources include a bibliography, an "Ecocritical Library," syllabi and discussion lists.

Digitized and searchable versions of a variety of collections on American history at the Library of Congress.

Selections from a 41-volume series entitled "The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography". Built and maintained by Bruce Fort, University of Virginia.

"An archive of art and literature by New York City's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians." Includes texts (mostly from The New York Saturday Press), biographies and other material related to about 150 literary and artistic figures who gathered at Charles Pfaff's beer cellar in lower Manhattan. Writers include Whitman, Poe and Twain.

Includes biographies, bibliographies and criticism of Mississippi writers. Maintained by the University of Mississippi English Department.

A joint project of the Canadian (Public) Broadcasting Corporation and Canada's CultureNet to showcase the work of Canadian creative and performing artists. Includes material on visual and performing arts, books and writers, new media, cultural politics and a calendar of events. It's a combination of electronic magazine and website.

A project to provide access to Canada's published heritage. Over 1,037,000 pages have been digitized. It features work published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th century.

Contains information on Canadian authors, discussion lists, writing unions and organizations, booksellers, festivals, awards and general resources.

Primarily a collection of links about contemporary Australian authors. Maintained by Perry Middlemiss

A collection assembled by the National Library of Australia

A nonprofit collaboration between 12 Australian universities and The National Library of Australia to provide authoritative information on Ausatralian Literature.

"Developed at University College Cork, the Corpus of Electronic Texts project is intended to "bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly project.""

Online version of the leading U.S. poetry magazine. Includes a directory of writers, information about grants and conferences, audio clips and other resources.

A resource for British poets & poetry. Includes an online poetry classroom project, information about poetry events in the London area, lists of forthcoming poetry titles in the UK and links to two poetry Society journals, Poetry Review and Poetry News

The site of the Academy of American Poets - includes biographies and other information about 450 American poets, with selections from their works & some audio clips. Also contains a database of 1200 poems searchable by title & first line.

Includes poetry and prose by contemporary poets, journals of contemporary poetry, audio of readings, and more.

A comparison of the websites (listed above) of the Academy of American Poets and the Electronic Poetry Center by David Caplan. MUSE archive for Postmodern Culture.

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.

An electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.

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.

Contains information on, as well as the text of poems by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and others. There is also a chronology of World War I and a bibliography. Also includes some audio material. Maintained by Harry Rusche (Emory University).

Contains information on about 160 poets, with separate pages for eleven major poets. These include biographical and critical information, photos, discographies, and filmographies as well as full-text of some poems. Maintained by Eiichi Hishikawa at Kobe University, Japan.

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 site that features avatars of contemporary poets performing. Maintained by J.J. Web, aka "Beau Blue."

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.