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North American and European Literature

• 20th Century Authors
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• American Authors
• American Literature on the Web
• American Literature Sites
• American Transcendentalism ~ Scroll down and click Criticism. From Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University.
• American Verse Project
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• Center for Book Culture
• Classics Collection
• CSpan American Writers

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• Indigenous People's Literature
• IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection ~ An extensive gateway to critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works. Browse by author, title, or literary period.
• Library of Southern Literature
• The Literary Gothic
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Luminarium ~ Medieval, Renaissance, and early 17th century European literature
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
• Shakespeare
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Criticism ~ An extensive index of web sites. Click on General Criticism or Criticism of Individual Plays.
  • ShakespeareHelp.com
  • ShakespeareHigh.com
  • Shakespeare at the Furness Image Collection ~ 2000 prints and photos from the University of Pennsylvania
• Voice of the Shuttle - American Literature

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Digital Texts and Images

• The Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery ~ COLLAGE, an image database containing over 20,000 works of art from its collections.
• Digital Book Index ~ Digital Book Index provides links to more than 114,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 75,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
• Electronic Literature Directory
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature ~ "This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English."
• International Children's Digital Library

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• Legends
• Literature@SunSITE ~ "A collection of digital texts that can be read online, printed, or downloaded."
• The National Archives ~ "The National Archives is the U.S. Government’s collection of documents that records important events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials and makes them available for research." The archives contain materials such as "firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources."
• The New York Public Library Digital Gallery ~ "The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
• Project Gutenberg ~ 17,000 free books
• Shakespeare at the Furness Image Collection ~ 2000 prints and photos from the University of Pennsylvania

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Literature by Continent, Country and Culture

• Literature by Country - Librarians Index to the Internet

Poetry

• American Verse Project
• BBC Arts - Poetry
• British Poetry 1780-1910
• Chinese Poetry
• Contemporary American Poetry Archive
• The Internet Poetry Archive
• Poetry 180: a poem a day for American high schools
• Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress
• The Poetry Archives
• Poetry Daily
• Poets.Org ~ from the Academy of American Poets
• Poetry Portal
• Poetry Society of America
• PSI: Poetry Slam Inc.
• Salon.com
• World Poetry Directory

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N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Last update: 4/07/08