Literature Sites for Students
General Literature
Poetry (Analysis and Poems Online)
Drama and Theater
Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Literary Glossaries
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Literary Studies: Resources on the Net is a British site that provides a number of valuable links. | |
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Literary Resources on the Net is maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University and covers a wide variety of areas. | |
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Luminarium provides links to sites dealing with Medieval, Renaissance, and Seventeenth Century English literature. | |
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The Literature (in English) page of Voice of the Shuttle provides an extensive list of web resources for every period of English literature. On the VOS home page you can also find useful links to resources for a variety of other disciplines, such as art and history. VOS is probably the best place on the web for humanities students interested in online research. this is a great place to start. | |
| British and Irish Authors on the Web is an impressive site with links to many articles, biographies, and authors' works. | |
| The Cambridge Dictionary of English and American Literature allows you to search its articles online. | |
| English Literature Resources "These links are intended to provide a useful resource for students on our English Literature distance-learning course, and anyone else studying English Literature." | |
| Literary Periods is a site that briefly discusses the concept of "literary periods" and how they are labeled and offers an overview of several periods, such as the Renaissance and the Neoclassical Period. | |
| Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Dialogues is a resource for students, scholars, and teachers of postcolonial and multicultural approaches to British and world literature. | |
| Postcolonial Web | |
| Web Resources for Women Writers | |
| Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color | |
| Magical Realism on the Web | |
| The Modern World (This is the Web’s largest site devoted to exploring twentieth-century experimental literature.) | |
| The Modern Word’s Scriptorium Pages (The Scriptorium is one of the major sections of The Modern Word, an index of pages featuring writers who have pushed the edges of their medium, combining literary talent with a sense of experimentation to produce some remarkable works of modern literature.) |
Analyzing Poetry
| Examples of Iambs, Trochees, Spondees, Dactyls, and Anapests (pdf file), by L. Kip Wheeler | |||||||||
| Schemes and Tropes (pdf file), by L. Kip Wheeler | |||||||||
| Scansion: The Feet Upon Which English Poetry Walks, Arnie Sanders | |||||||||
| A Look at Scansion Methods, by Caleb Murdock | |||||||||
| A Guide to the Theory of Poetry, Manfred Jahn | |||||||||
| Some Basics of Poetic Form, by Meegan Kennedy | |||||||||
| We've Got Rhythm, from Kalliope | |||||||||
| Analyzing Poetry, Dr. Kent-Drury | |||||||||
| How to Eat a Poem, by Eve Merriam | |||||||||
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Guide to Verse Forms, by Bob Newman
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| Understanding and Explicating Poetry | |||||||||
| Web Guide for Poetry Explication Contains Multiple Links) |
Poems Online
| Representative Poetry Online | |
| Modern American Poetry | |
| The Academy of American Poets | |
| Poems Online at Bartleby.com | |
| Poets' Corner |
| Theater History on the Web | |
| Inter-Play: Online Index to Plays in Collections | |
| Dramatists Play Service | |
| Monologue Madness | |
| Shakespeare's Monologues | |
| Samuel French Bookstores (Plays) | |
| Greek Theater History Notes contains information about tragedy and tragic heroes. |
| The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms (Virtual Classroom of the Cambridge English Faculty) | |
| Glossary of Poetic Terms (by Ian Lancashire, Department of English, University of Toronto) | |
| Glossary of Literary Terms (Gale and Thomson Free Resources) | |
| Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms (by Jack Lynch) | |
| A Glossary of Literary Terms (Virtual Salt) | |
| Literary Vocabulary (by Dr. Wheeler) | |
| Notes in the Margin: Glossary Notes | |
| All American: Glossary of Literary Terms | |
| Literary Terms | |
| Norton LITWEB Glossary | |
| Glossary of Terms and Conventions |