Literature | Online Texts | Poetry | Writing
Aesop's Fables
An online collection of over 650 fables indexed in table format, with morals listed. Also included are Real Audio narrations, images, fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and seasonal stories by well-known authors. Grimm's fairy tales and ancient myths are to be added soon.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Online texts of Shakespeare's plays and poetry, plus links to quotations and resources online.
English Literature on the Web
Links to sites on genres and periods of English Literature.
Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism
Links to literary criticism and authors by country and time period.
Literature Resource Center
Literary reference "standards" from Gale include biographical and bibliographic information for more than 120,000 authors, full-text articles from more than 130 literary journals updated daily, and links to more than 5,000 relevant Web sites and special collections. Available throughout Lahser, or from home with a password. See Ms. Scott for a password list.
Literary Resources on the Net
Information on literature, theatre and drama throughout history, plus links to other sources.
Mr. William Shakespeare
Includes a Shakespeare timeline, genealogy, biography quiz, the Shakespeare Canon, and links to other sites.
New York Times Books
50,000 book reviews from the New York Times since 1980, searchable by author or title, plus best-seller lists, author interviews, and forums.
Romantic Circles
A set of online research tools intended for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts. Includes texts, essays, and criticisms.
Romantic Links, Electronic Texts and Home Pages
Links to associations, works, and sites on the Romantic movement and its writers.
The Romantics Page at UNM
Links to sites on British and American Romanticism, compiled an English professor at the University of New Mexico.
Sensational Summer Reads
Lahser staff suggests favorite books for Summer Reading.
SF Site
Emphasizes the literary aspects of the genre, with book reviews and links to author web pages.
University of Michigan Fantasy and Science Fiction Website
Includes an Online Library, containing public domain stories, and a Links page to author information, commercial sites and research tools.
Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature
Links to a variety of topics in English and American literature.
What Do I Read Next?
"What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month." Available throughout the building, or from home at the Michigan Electronic Library (Mel).
ONLINE TEXTS
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Full text online editions of classic books, including the eighteen volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Bartlett's Quotations, poetry, and novels.
Bibliomania
Searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, biographies, research and religious texts.
IPL Books
Links to online book collections.
Online text of classic literary works that are in the public domain.
POETRY
American Poetry Archive
The American Verse Project, a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press, is "an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920."
Favorite Poem Project
Created by Robert Pinsky as his poet laureate special project, this site features ordinary Americans reciting the poems that they love best. RealPlayer is required to play the videos.
Internet Poetry Archive
The University of North Carolina Press and the UNC Office of Information Technology are responsible for the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive "will make available selected poems from a number of contemporary poets to make poetry accessible to new audiences and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts."
Poetry Daily
Published by the American Poetry Association, this site presents a new poem every day, selected from current books, magazines and journals.
Poetry 180
This Library of Congress site, a project by Billy Collins (the current US Poet Laureate), lists 180 poems -- one for each day of the year -- ideal for reading by high school students.
Over 6700 poems by 780+ authors, this also includes a biographical index of poets.
A project of the University of Toronto, this includes about 2,500 English poems by 403 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
Produced by the New York Public Library, this site features poetry by students aged 12 -18.
WRITING
An extensive guide to grammar at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels, plus sample letters, resumes, and links to additional resources.
Literary Market Place Online
Lists of publishers and the types of works they publish, information on choosing an agent, public relations firm, and submitting manuscripts for publication.