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English: Recommended Websites

A guide to resources for English
  • Getting Started
  • Recommended Websites
  • New Books & DVDs
  • General Resources
  • Drama
  • Poetry
  • Ancient & Medieval Literature
  • Early Modern Literature
  • 18th & 19th Century Literature
  • 20th Century & Contemporary Literature
  • All Nobel Prizes in Literature
    Contains bio-bibliographies and award ceremony speeches for all 113 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2016.
  • Bartleby.com
    Freely available classics including fiction, nonfiction, reference, and poetry.
  • Cambridge Dictionary
    Available in 11 languages; includes definitions and grammar.
  • Green's Dictionary of Slang
    The largest historical dictionary of English slang.
  • NPR Books
    Book reviews and news from National Public Radio,
  • PEN America Digital Archive
    Makes available long-inaccessible but valuable public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Over 54,000 free e-books that can be downloaded or read online.
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
    Includes general writing resources on topics such as grammar, punctuation, and academic writing, information on research methods, and citation guides.
  • TED Talks - Literature
    A collection of TED Talks on the topic of literature.
  • Writer's Web
    Handbook of resources organized by stages in the writing process, including information on first drafts, focusing/connecting ideas, punctuation, grammar, clarity and style, and documentation.
  • PBS Great Performances: Drama
    Full episodes of great theater works, including "Driving Miss Daisy" with James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury, "King Lear" starring Ian McKellen, and "Macbeth" starring Patrick Stewart.
  • Pulitzer Prizes: Drama
    Winners for The Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1918-2017, includes finalists 1983-2017.
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
    Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost; Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Czeslaw Milosz, and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut read from their work at the Library of Congress.
  • Poetry Archive
    Over 2,000 freely available online recordings of poets from around the English-speaking world.
  • Poetry Foundation
    Text for more than 40,000 poems, over 1,500 audio poems.
  • Poets.org
    Website of the Academy of American Poets includes materials for teachers as well as poems and poets that can be browsed or searched by Occasions, Themes, Forms, or Schools & Movements.

  

  • Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
    This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until a manuscript curator rediscovered them in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997.
  • U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith: Online Resources
    Selected online resources related to Tracy K. Smith's life and work.
  • Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
    An online edition of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, or a dictionary of "Old English". The dictionary records the state of the English language as it was used between ca. 700-1100 AD by the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of the British Isles.
  • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
    This collection of Middle English texts was assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, as well as works created specifically for the Corpus by the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI).
  • Database of Middle English Romance
    Key information, including (where known) date and place of composition, verse form, authorship and sources, extant manuscripts and modern prints, is provided for each romance, as is a full list of modern editions.
  • Discovering Literature : Medieval (British Library)
    Unique collection items and expert articles relating to to some of the earliest works of English literature and most influential figures in literary history.
  • Internet Classics Archive
    441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian works), all in English translation.
  • Perseus Digital Library
    Covers the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
  • Thesaurus of Old English
    Conceptually arranged, and presents the vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon England within ordered categories.

  

  • Caxton's Chaucer
    Complete digitized texts of Caxton's two earliest editions of The Canterbury Tales from the British Library.
  • The World of Chaucer
    An introduction to Chaucer and his works, including descriptions of books with images (University of Glasgow Library).
  • The Chicago Homer
    Multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek.
  • Catalog of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1700
    Complete catalogue of literary manuscripts by 237 British authors of the 16th and 17th centuries. Offers descriptions of more than 37,000 manuscript texts of poems, plays, discourses, translations, etc., as well as notebooks, annotated printed books, corrected proofs, promptbooks, letters, documents, and other related manuscript materials.
  • English Short Title Catalogue
    Lists over 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries. Includes items mainly in English and published in the British Isles and North America.

  

  • The Digital Donne
    Digital images of early Donne editions and manuscripts.
  • The Marlowe Society
    Celebrating the life and work of Christopher Marlowe.

  

  • The Bodleian First Folio
    A digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Bodleian Archive.
  • British Library Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto
    107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before 1642.
  • Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    Online text of Shakespeare's complete plays and poetry.
  • Discovering Literature : Shakespeare & Renaissance (British Library)
    Works of Shakespeare and Renaissance writers in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which they were written.
  • Folger Digital Resources
    Meticulously accurate texts from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions. Free downloads of the source code - providing the basis for new noncommercial Shakespeare projects and apps.
  • MIT Global Shakespeares: Video & Performance Archive
    Online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.
  • Shakespeare's Words
    Full text of the plays and poems integrated with a glossary database, allowing users to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.
  • John Milton Reading Room
    "The John Milton Reading Room: the complete poetry and selected prose of John Milton, with introductions, research guides, and hyperlinked annotations."
  • Shakespeare Quartos Archive
    Digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays.
  • African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
    New York Public Library digital collection. Fifty-two published works by 19th-century black women writers provide access to their thought, perspectives, and creative abilities. Includes poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises.
  • BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
    Free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925.
  • Discovering Literature : Restoration & 18th Century
    Lives and works of key writers from a period that ushered in political unrest, social change and new literary forms.
  • Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
    Over 8,000 pages of collection items and explores more than 20 authors through 165 newly-commissioned articles, 25 short documentary films, and 30 lesson plans.
  • Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
    Collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century. Includes 272 authors and over 1,700 texts.
  • Romantic Circles
    Scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes electronic editions of Romantic-era texts, peer-reviewed volumes of literary criticism, bibliographies, indexes and concordances, chronologies, audio files, a curated collection of Romantic-era images, and reviews of current Romantic scholarship.
  • Romantics and Victorians
    Literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods
  • Victorian Serial Novels: Reading Like a Victorian
    Allows readers to get easy access to parts of Victorian novels in the order in which they were published in the nineteenth century.
  • The Victorian Web: Authors
    Alphabetical listing of authors active during the Victorian era.
  • Victorian Women Writers Project
    Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. Represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.

  

  • The William Blake Archive
    A collection of William Blake's visual arts and literary works.
  • William Blake Archive
    Digital access to major works in print, painting, and poetry of William Blake.
  • Charles Dickens : The Life of the Author
    New York Public Library digital collection. In this presentation, The New York Public Library's Kenneth Benson surveys the life and works of the most beloved author of the Victorian era.
  • Emily Dickinson Archive
    High-resolution images of Dickinson's surviving manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.
  • Dickinson Electronic Archives
    Repository for the study of resources related to Emily Dickinson.
  • Frederick Douglass : A Resource Guide
    The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with Frederick Douglass, including manuscripts, photographs, and books.
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection
    E-text of a selected group of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry, as well as an image gallery and bibliography of selected resources.
  • Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
    Comprehensive collection of e-texts of and about Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Shelley-Godwin Archive
    Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Selley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Moby Dick Big Read
    Online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.
  • The Walt Whitman Archive
    "The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers."
  • Discovering Literature: 20th Century
    Over 300 20th-century treasures from the British Library's collection including literary drafts, rare first editions, notebooks, letters, newspapers, and photographs.
  • Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947
    New York Public Library digital collection.
  • Harlem Renaissance : Research Guide
    African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s in the vast collections of the Library of Congress.
  • The Modernist Journals Project
    A major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern.
  • PEN America Digital Archive
    Captures more than 50 years of cultural programming at the intersection of literature and freedom of expression advocacy. Features the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.

  

  • Willa Cather Archive
    Freely available digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship, as well as a large amount of unique, born-digital scholarly content.
  • Allen Ginsberg Papers, 1937-1994: Digital Content
    Over 2,000 audio cassette recordings of Allen Ginsberg, acclaimed poet of the Beat Generation.
  • Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive
    Online repository of bibliographical, critical, and contextual materials related to Zora Neale Hurston's life and work.
  • First World War Poetry Digital Archive
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