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Published Monday, September 16, 1996
English/literature Web links
English, literature
A comprehensive guide to Internet resources related to books for
children and young adults.
D.H. Lawrence information
http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/SchEd/lawrence.html
What do you need to know about D.H. Lawrence and "Lady Chatterly's
Lover"? It's probably here.
Edgar Allan Poe
http://infoweb.magi.com/~forrest/index.html
A site with a lot of background and other information on Poe and his
works, along with links to related Web sites.
Elements of Style
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
This classic book by William Strunk is intended for use by students in literature and composition classes. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style, concentrating on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
This hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client
interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing the various
Webster's dictionary services on the Internet. First, type theword for
which you want the definition in the search window and hit return. Words in the resulting definition are hypertext linked back into the
dictionary, allowing you to use your mouse to access the definition of
those related (and unrelated) words.If you misspell the word, the
webster server may offer a list of close matches as alternatives.
English-French dictionary
http://mlab-power3.uiah.fi/EnglishFrench/avenues.html
English-French dictionary lets you plug in the English or French term
and get the equivalent in the other language. Includes vocabulary tests and a feature that shows the expression you provided as the root of other expressions in the language.
Since its founding in 1965, the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library in
Collegeville, Minn., has built one of the largest and most comprehensive archives of medieval and Renaissance sources in the world. Its Web site offers manuscript images, presentations and exhibits; events and programs; sound files; a gift shop; and links to medieval study sites around the world.
Iliad, Odyssey Online
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer are literature that nobody escapes
during high school. Both of them are online at this site.
The University of North Carolina project offers selected
poems from a number of contemporary poets. The archive will include the work of living poets from around the world. Highlights include audio clips, photographs, biographies and bibliographies. Poems will be presented in their original languages, as well as in English
translation.
James Joyce Web sites
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Authors/Joyce__James__1882_1941_/
A collection of links gathered by the Yahoo Web searcher that contain
criticism of the Irish writer's works and background on the author.
Jane Austen Web site
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Authors/Austen__Jane__1775_1817_/
Here's just about everything you'd want to know about Jane Austen and her work.
Lewis Carroll and his work
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Literature/Classics/Carroll__Lewis__1832_1898_/
Go through the looking glass here for something about the author of
"Alice in Wonderland."
An entire Web site dedicated to one of America's favorite authors. For
Twain trivia buffs, there's stuff even you may not have heard of.
Nobel Prizes
http://www.it-kompetens.se/swedish/nobel.html
Nobel Prize winners past and present and their works. Includes
following categories: The Nobel Foundation www server, literature - The Swedish Academy; chemistry, economic science, physics, medicine.
Offers the entire text of the 1084-page original, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, is available and searchable. The collection may be browsed using alphabetic indices of authors, titles, or first lines. A chronological index of authors, from a 13th-century Anonymous to R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900) is also available.
Poetry and poets
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Poetry/
Who and what do you need to know about in the world of poetry? This link will start a search that will return you a long list of other links relating to lots of dead poets. Poe, Sandburg, Virgil, Tennyson and lots of others.
The ambitious goal of the project is to put all public-domain literature and reference material on the Internet. Search by title or author for works by everyone from Aeschylus to the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
Contains the works and profiles of 1995 winners in journalism,
letters, drama and music. Winning entries are showcased in exhibits
that include full articles, photos, editorial cartoons, and even a sound bite. History of Pulitzer Prize; biographies of winning authors;
profiles of Pulitzer board and juries; electronic entry forms.
This might be a good place to start your search if you're not sure who
or what you're looking for. It allows you to do a broad search for
information about authors, scholarly papers and all sorts of things
connected to the study of literature.
Search the classics
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/index.html
This is a searchable archive of 375 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation), provided by The Tech. The original electronic sources for the works are freely available online. The works are searchable by author, title, date and translator.
Shakespeare Web site
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Complete works of William Shakespeare and links to other internet
Shakespeare sites.
T.S. Eliot
http://www.cacs.usl.edu/Departments/English/authors/eliot/index.html
Need to know something about T.S. Eliot? This site has background
information on Eliot and also includes a listing of his work.
The Book Cafe
http://www.books.com/scripts/newcon.exe?sid~UWgmkFlviByoG8L
A conference area for book lovers. Forums like Fiction, Poetry, Terror, Fantasy, SciFi, and Crafts are available and each is maintained by a moderator and has multiple topics. Topics contain the user's Messages which can be created as regular messages or HTML messages complete with live links. Each user's message includes their email address and home page, if available. The Book Cafe is one of the first online Web conferencing system of its kind.
William Blake and his poetry
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Poetry/Poets/Blake__William__1757_1827_/
A collection of information about revolutionary poet William Blake.
A site maintained at Ole Miss dedicated to the great Southern novelist. Includes criticism, synopses and background.
EXPO is a world wide exhibition that with the aid of many people makes
interesting exhibitions available to the general public. Visit a Russian exhibit, a paleontology exhibit, the Vatican or check out the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Numerous Web links to arts, drama, literature, music, astronomy,
biology, chemistry, computer, environment, geology, math, physics,
science, weather, meteorology, geography, government, history, fun and
games, and other digital libraries.
Bookshelf
http://www.auldbooks.com/biblio/index.html
Published by the Bibliophile Mailing List. This site is for collectors
and sellers of old, rare, scarce, and/or out-of-print books. Provides a forum for buying, selling, and trading books. In addition, there is
discussion of issues pertinent to identifying, collecting, preserving,
and restoring lovely old books. Bibliophile maintains a web page for the benefit of its subscribers.
Bookwire
http://www.bookwire.com/
An Internet-based news and information service for consumers and book
industry professionals. Publishes web editions of several major book
industry and book review publications including Publishers Weekly, The
Boston Book Review, The Computer Book Review, The Hungry Mind Review,
and the Quarterly Black Review. BookWire also maintains the web sites
for the Book Industry Study Group and the National Book Critics Circle. Includes an index of book-related sites that contain book reviews and several bestseller lists as well as thousands of annotated links to global book resources.
Online site of a trade association of children's publishers. A resource for information about children's materials and about the children's trade book publishing industry. Information about the Children's Book Council; National Children's Book Week; CBC articles about Children's Books; bibliographies and publications available; Promote Reading: Posters, materials available; CBC membership information; CBC members list.
Book reviews. Includes partial contents of latest issue, plus past
issues. Special section on children's books. Discussion areas.
Need to know something about grammar? This is the place to get the answers you need.
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