• Early English Books 1475-1640
  Nearly 26,500 titles from Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue and its revised edition.
• Essay and General Literature Index
  Index to contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences
• Humanities Abstracts
  Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities
• Literature Resource Center
  Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
  Index to information about literature, language, linguistics, and folklore
• Oxford English Dictionary
  Online version of the OED with full text definitions
• Project Muse  
  Full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in the arts & humanities, social sciences and mathematics
• Scribner Writers Series (Part of Literature Resource Center)
  1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world; full text
• Twayne's Author Series (Part of Literature Resource Center)
  Nearly 600 full text books devoted to literary criticism of authors from around the world
• Expanded Academic ASAP
  Scholarly journals from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology
• ProQuest Direct
  Index to articles on a variety of topics, including some full text
• Wilson Select Plus
  Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business

• American Writers a starting point for beginning undergraduates embarking on a consideration of US writing and culture; explores the influence of 45 US authors from 1600 - 1975 (see also Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites, in Reference 016.81 B797u)
• Dickinson, Emily: Dickinson Electronic Archives Features The Classroom Electric, which provides an understanding of Dickinson and Walt Whitman within the contect of 19th century American life. Also includes links to criticism and Dickinson family writings.
• O'Neill Eugene: eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill archive is a guide to O'Neill archives, publications and other items of interest to scholars of both O'Neill's career and history of the 20th-century American stage.
• Wharton, Edith Edith Wharton Society Includes primary sources, a bibliography of secondary sources and links to web sites containing research and general information about the author
• Whitman, Walt: Walt Whitman Archives is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

• Geoffrey Chaucer Includes critical articles, translations and glossed versions of sources that are relevant to Chaucer; also has graphics and general information about the Middle Ages.
• Geoffrey Chaucer home page Chaucer-related scholarly resources (chronology, glossary, texts, etc.)
• Geoffrey Chaucer.org A selective annotated guide to online resources
• Middle English Dictionary offers a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500
• New Chaucer Society Provides a wide array of useful materials for all academic audiences interested in Chaucer and late medieval literature and culture.

• Children's Literature: Librarian's Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
• Children's Literature Guide to the Web is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults."
• Literature for Children Provides access to over 550 high-quality digitized children?s literature titles, pre-1850 to post-1950. Focuses on literature from the US and Britain. Provides basic and advanced search functions in keyword, author, title, subject.

• Early English Books 1475-1640 From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare
• Early Modern Literary Studies "A refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area ." Journal issues include examinations of English literature and literary culture, articles on language in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as reviews and links to relevant Internet sites.
• Eighteenth Century Resources This collection of Internet links includes information on literature, history, art, music religion, economics, philosophy, etc., from around the world in the eighteenth century, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics.
• Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia) holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
• Middle English Texts Full text versions of texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions. The editions maintain the linguistic integrity of the original works but within the parameters of modern reading conventions. Middle English Dictionary
• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies "ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."
• Renaissance Electronic Texts "A series of old-spelling editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period."

• Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4689 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
• Voice of the Shuttle Literary Theory Page A very complex indexing of web sites that covers many major disciplines. Includes links to resources, libraries and reference sources.
• See also Contemporary Authors, MLA, and Project Muse

• American Verse Project - collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative University of Michigan Press digitizing pre-1920's American poetry.
• British Poetry from 1780-1910 electronic archive of scholarly editions of British poetry from 1780-1910.
• Poetry Portal A directory of worldwide poetry online
• Poets.org: The American Academy of Poets Visitors can find, among other things, essays on poetry, biographies of more than 200 poets, text of nearly 600 poems, and RealAudio of eighty poems read by their authors.

• Bartleby.com contemporary and classic reference works, including dictionaries, literary anthologies, fiction, poetry, mythology, etc.
• Credo Reference literature collection
• Dictionary of Slang Links to information about slang from any English-speaking country.
• Electronic Literature Directory Tool for locating and accessing electronic literature; including texts with multimedia or interactive features, generated texts and audio of performed work.
• Encyclopedia Mythica "This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, magic, and more. It contains over 4300 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world."
• Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices An online book that "...contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing."
• Greek Mythology Lists, maps, drawings, photos, and summaries
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Published in 1994 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 160,000+ entries and 214,000+ definitions. Besides definition, a retrieved word is accompanied by pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, a brief etymology. More info available online.
• Oxford English Dictionary Online version of the OED; find definitions and etymologies of words
• Oxford Reference Online: Classics, Literature, Mythology & Folklore
  Urban Dictionary Collection of definitions of slang terms, submitted by readers.

• Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs, 1870-1982 More than 400 digitized photographic images of professional Shakespeare productions across more than a century.
• Collected Works of Shakespeare and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare both contain full text versions of Shakespeare's plays as well as some poetry.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
• Oxford Shakespeare (Bartleby/Oxford University Press)

• ArtsLynx International Theater Resources This collection of Master Sites takes you to the giant sites that link with theatre companies, etc, plus other collections that include hard to find resources.
• Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theater and Performance Studies A comprehensive site with descriptive and evaluative annotations intended to facilitate location of information.

Liaison for English: Susan Ponischil 632-2134 (20080128)