- Online Literary Criticism Collection
- The Online Literary Criticism Collection leads to over 1,000 websites with criticism and biographical information about authors and their works. These sites are screened and selected for their usefulness, and are generally of a very high quality.
- Great Writers and Poets
- A collection of Home Pages for poets and writers from modern to ancient. These pages offer background information on many of the persons covered. Includes listings of literary prize and award winners.
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- The finest works of writing are annually recognized by this famous American prize for 80 years. Includes Pulitzer Prize-winning works from the past three years, including photos, editorial cartoons, music clips and the full text of all winning articles! Awards are given for journalism, letters, drama and music. See especially the Archive and History sections.
- Romantic Circles
- Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts.
- Sixteenth Century English Literature
- Many of the founders of the long and rich tradition of literature in the English language are documented here, in all their forms. Very thorough and well-documented, with lots of resources. Includes the life, works and articles about them, as well as music from the period.
- Literary Kicks
- A page which draws together Internet informational resources on the "Beat Generation" of writers, such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder.
- Bohemian Ink: Beat Authors
- Includes biographical sketches and examples of the writings of a number of writers of the Beat Generation, including Burroughs, Cassady, di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Kesey, McClure, Rexroth, Snyder, Welch, Walen, and more.
- Bohemian Ink: Women of the Beat Generation
- A special section which explores the women of the Beat generation and their literary work.
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, & Utopias
- A collection of links organized for the use of Mr. Mathews' C.H.S. English students as they read Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
- William Shakespeare, Complete
- This is an online version of the complete works of William Shakespeare, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also includes links to other Internet information resources related to Shakespeare, his life and times.
- The Shakespeare Web
- An interactive, commercial hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding of Shakespeare's plays and other works. Includes information on current performances of the plays.
- Mr. William Shakespeare On the Internet/Web
- Dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding of Shakespeare's plays and other works. Includes information on a wide variety of topics related to Shakespeare. This is an excellent place to start research on Shakespeare, his life, and times.
- Shakespeare Illustrated
- A collection of illustrations based on the works of William Shakespeare. Thorough, colorful, and very interesting!
- Richard Wright
- Important 20th Century African-American writer, whose works influenced many others. Biographical and critical information is provided. An excellent chronology of Wright's life is included.
- The Life and Works of Herman Melville
- The Life and Works of Herman Melville is a publication dedicated to disseminating information about Herman Melville on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
- IQ Infinity: The Unknown James Joyce
- "These WWWeb pages offer a great deal of as-yet-unpublished research into Joyce's notebooks and early drafts. They show him pursuing a detailed analysis of human psychology, in ways that should prove useful to artificial intelligence theorists as they try to build a simulated human personality. "
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe, son of Actress Eliza Poe and Actor David Poe Jr., born 19th of January 1809, was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his psychological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide.
- Mark Twain Resources On the World Wide Web
- These pages list resources by or about Mark Twain. They range from texts of his books to an analysis of his character's appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- J. D. Salinger
- One of the most influential authors of the mid-Twentieth Century. Jerome David Salinger, b. New York City, Jan. 1, 1919, established his reputation on the basis of a single novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), whose principal character, Holden Caulfield, epitomized the growing pains of a generation of high school and college students.
- Jorge Luis Borges
- The Garden of Forking Paths, the section of the Great Labyrinth devoted to Jorge Luis Borges. Here you will find information and resources on Borges and his works, links to other Borges sites across the Web, and miscellaneous Borgesian tidbits.
- Steinbeck Research Center
- Dedicated to the life and works of the famous writer, John Steinbeck.
- The Jack London Collection
- Images, Documents, Writings and other informational resources related to the life of the noted California author, Jack London.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- This nicely illustrated page chronicles the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's novels were filled with youth or the desire for it; his writing has produced shelves and shelves of books from his critics; and 300,000 copies of The Great Gatsby are sold each year to high school and college students everywhere. His work has been translated into 35 languages and more of Fitzgerald's books are sold every year than were sold during his entire lifetime. Here is also another F. Scott Fitzgerald Page, with additional information.
- Ernest Hemingway: The Papa Page
- Ernest Hemingway brought onto the Net. It is not an extensive archive nor a detailed scholastic study of Hemingway. It simply contains an outline of his life experiences, his tastes, and his works. It seeks to color the meaning of the words Ernest Hemingway in the reader's mind. Lots of interesting and useful links, including photos are to be found here.
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- Bob Dylan: Music and Lyrics
- An official website for the music and lyrics of the legendary rock singer and composer, Bob Dylan. Includes official lyrics, plus live audio recordings from original albums and concert performances.
- Walt Whitman
- A major collection of the influential 19th Century poet's works and background information.
- Emily Dickinson
- Poems and a bit of biographical information about this distinctive poet.
- Robert Frost
- Biography, poems, interviews and other helpful information.
- E. E. Cummings
- e.e. cummings resources and information.
- Anne Sexton
- A few poems from several of her works.
- Sylvia Plath
- A few poems and background material.
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Author Links From the Chico High School Library
The following links connect to a wide assortment of Internet information resources about writers of all types of literature, including drama, poetry, novels, stories, and all that literature has to offer. If you like, you may go directly to these sections below: | General Author Resources | Individual Authors | American Poets | British Poets | Online Poetry Archives and Collections |
General Author Resources
Individual Authors
Individual Poets On the Web
American Poets
British Poets
- Willliam Blake Archive
- Large collection of writings and drawings of this British poet and artist of the 19th Century.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- A database archive composed of images of manuscripts, art, maps and photographs related to the study of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
- Edmund Spenser Home Page
- A great Sixteenth Century writer! This page will seek to collect any and all Net materials pertaining to the life and works of Edmund Spenser.
- William Shakespeare
- The complete works of the famous poet and dramatist.
- Shakespeare and the Internet
- A major effort to pull together all the best Shakespeare links on the web.
- John Milton
- Comprehensive collection of resources for the study of the "Blind English Bard".
- John Donne
- Selected poetry by the immortal, "simple country parson."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A major online resource center for Coleridge study and appreciation.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- The complete writings and pictures of Dante Bagriel Rossetti. A hypermedia environment for studying the works of the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882).
- Robert W. Service
- A major presentation on the British-born Canadian poet and his works. Includes full text of the famous "The Cremation of Sam Mcgee", and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew".
- T.S. Eliot
- Although its focus is the "Prufrock" poem, this exhibition includes other helpful information on the American-born, British poet, T.S. Eliot.
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Online Poetry Archives and Collections
- American Verse Project- Texts
- The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press, is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920.
- Search The American Verse Project
- Search this poetry archive using key words, names or phrases, or go to the list of poets and poems and scan the list.
- Representative Poetry Online
- Excellent collection of the great poets of the English language, courtesy of Ian Lancashire. Poetry has been selected with editorial comments by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to 1996. Included is an extensive collection of criticism, both in verse and prose forms. The works are indexed by poet, title, date, keyword and first line.
- British Poetry 1780-1910
- Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Electronic Text Center. This project invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1900.
- Academy of American Poets
- Offers a number of online exhibits on American poets and poetry. Also other related information is available, with information chenging regularly.
- Poet's Corner
- Poet's Corner, an eclectic mix of poems provided for you to peruse and contemplate. You will find many things here, both obscure and familiar, from well and lesser known poets, from medieval ballads in middle english to poems of the early 20th century. This site is named for a corner of Westminster Abbey where a number of famous English poets are buried.
- Poetry (Literature)
- A set of links to general poetry resources on the Internet, including poetry, criticism and biography.
- Internet Poetry Archive
- This archive strives to make selected works of contemporary poets available, and to allow for new ways to study the poets and their texts. Includes sound and graphics.
- Bartleby Library of Columbia University
- A nice collection of famous poets and authors from America and Great Britain, along with special collections prepared from the Columbia University resources.
- Poetry
- A collection of links to poetry, organized according to the poets' names. Includes a set of links to essays and humor.
- Richard's Poetry Library
- A nice collection of links to the works of a variety of poet, organized alphabetically, by poet name. Also a helpful collection of links to other online poetry resources.
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is an archive being assembled as a service to the Internet. A free and easy way to access some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
- The Tech Classics Archive
- An online archive of 184 works by 17 classical authors (in translation), provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The texts are in HTML format, but raw text files are also available. Each work has been segmented into the different books, sections, parts, etc. whenever possible.
- Japanese Text Initiative
- A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web. Features "100 Poems by 100 poets" text in English, Japanese, and Romaji. Includes Japanese woodblock prints too.
- Dogwood Blossoms
- An electronic Journal of Haiku. You are welcome to read poems online, written in the style known as "haiku".
- The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon
- This project seeks to provide a network forum for introducing to the world the joy of Japan's short poem, Haiku. Their stated hope is that those who see this will develop an appreciation and respect for Haiku, familiarize themselves with it, and, ultimately while enjoying the art form as its practitioners, help to promote international exchange and friendship through Haiku.
- The Tower Lyrics Archive!
- Chad Tower has collected lyrics to some of his favorite Broadway musicals, and has made them available online.
- Reflections of Leon Malinofsky
- Mr. Malinofsky's collection of poets and great thinkers, presented through text and audio links, organized by a series of themes: Voices, Spirit, Passion, Muse, Nature. A friendly, pleasant presentation.
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