Google Map of Litarary Oxford, maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=212814219524054970344.00049c0440775cd9d127b&z=14  Click on a pin for links to authors   

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature by Period, vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2968

The Literature Network, www.online-literature.com/

“Literary Criticism” in the Internet Public Library, www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ ("over 1,000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period")

Literary Resources on the Net, andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Lit Links, bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx

Classic Authors, www.classicauthors.net/

MIT Libraries guide to internet resources on English & American literature,
    libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=12397

Intute: Arts & Humanities: English (UK, "closed" in 2011), www.intute.ac.uk/english/   

Converse: the literature site for GCSE and A level English and beyond (UK),
    www.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/

American literature materials, public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/aufram.html

American Authors on the Web,
    www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit-G.html

American Literature Archive (U. of Texas), www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, in 18 volumes, published 1907-1921,
    www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

LiteraryHistory.com, www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm

E-Notes on literature, www.enotes.com/lit/

A Glossary of Literary Terms, www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

Today in Literature, www.todayinliterature.com/index.asp

Catholic Authors, www.catholicauthors.com/index.html

The Writer's Almanac  (NPR)

LitQuotes ("quotations from the great works of literature")

More large free text sites
    Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
    The Harvard Classics ("The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume '5-foot shelf of books' and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.")
    Project Gutenberg ("20,000 free ebooks")
    Electronic Text Center (UVa)
    Digital Texts Projects (Columbia U.)
    On-Line Literature Library
    On-Line Books Page ("over 25,000 free books") (U. of Penn.)
    Eserver.org  (Iowa State)
        fiction, http://fiction.eserver.org/
        books collection, http://books.eserver.org/
    ReadPrint ("your free online library")
    WikiSource ("an online library of free content")
    Electronic Classics (Penn State U.)
    Short Story Archive

Poetry
    The Poetry Archive
    The Poetry Foundation 
    Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)
    Modern American Poetry (U. of Illinois)
    20th Century Poetry in English (Kobe U.)
    PoemHunter.com/  (pop-up ads, alas)
    Poetry Archive, www.emule.com/poetry/
    The Poetry Society  (UK)
    Representative Poetry Online  (U. of Toronto)
    British Poetry 1780-1910 (UVa)
    Sonnet Central
    The Art of Reading a Poem (according to Harold Bloom) (audiofile)

Audio Files (famous authors reading their work)
    Harper Collins
    LibriVox

Nobel Prize in Literature, nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/index.html
Pulitzer Prizes, www.pulitzer.org/
National Book Awards, www.nationalbook.org/
PEN/Faulkner Award, www.penfaulkner.org/

English Literature in Context (CUP),
    www.cambridge.org/features/literature/poplawski/introduction.htm

The Paris Review interview archive,
    www.theparisreview.org/literature.php

92Y on Demand, 92yondemand.org/ 

Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org/

English Literature and Religion (W. Peterson, emeritus at U. of Maryland, English dept.) 

Medieval Imaginations (Cambridge), www.english.cam.ac.uk/medieval/
Online Medieval & Classical Library (UC Berkeley), omacl.org/

Luminarium Anthology of English Literature (medieval through Restoration),
    www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

The English Renaissance in Context (Penn), dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm

Early Modern Literary Studies,
    E-texts, extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsetxt.html
    Web resources (including blogs), extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html

Eighteenth Century Resources,
    andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/  including
    Eighteenth Century E-texts, andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html

Eighteenth Century English Novel (Brooklyn College), academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/index.html

Cambridge History  of English & American Literature -- The Age of Johnson,
    essays on Richardson, Fielding & Smollett, Sterne and the Novel of His Times,
    www.bartleby.com/220/index.html

Romantic Circles (U. of Maryland),  www.rc.umd.edu/

Original texts, Romanticism, www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook15.html 

Original texts, 19th Century Britain, www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook20.html  

American Transcendentalism, www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html
Transcendentalists, www.transcendentalists.com/

The Victorian Web, www.victorianweb.org/
Victoria Research Web, www.victorianresearch.org/
Victorian Studies, www.indiana.edu/~victstu/home.htm
Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana U.), www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

The Literary Gothic, www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html

Modernist Journals Project, dl.lib.brown.edu:8080/exist/mjp/index.xml

World War I Poetry website (Oxford U.), www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/

The Modern Word, www.themodernword.com/default.aspx

Southern Literature, academics.vmi.edu/english/southern.html
Library of Southern Literature (before 1924), docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
Southern Literary Review, www.southernlitreview.com/
Mississippi Writers Page (Ole Miss), www.olemiss.edu/mwp/
Center for the Study of Southern Culture (Ole Miss), www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/
Center for the Study of the American South (UNC), www.unc.edu/depts/csas/

Punch magazine, www.punch.co.uk/

Pulp Fiction Central, www.vintagelibrary.com/pulpfiction/PulpFictionCentral.php

The Beat Generation Archives, wild-bohemian.com/beats.htm
The Beat Page, www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s (U. of Penn.),
    www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
The Beat Generation and the Sixties (U. of Adelaide),
    www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/english/beats.html
Bohemian Ink, levity.com/corduroy/
Post-World War II American Literature and Culture Database (UC Berkeley),
    english.berkeley.edu/Postwar/default.html

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (U. of Penn.) (many links),
    writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature (Cal State Stanislaus) (many links),
    web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm

American Masters (PBS), www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html

Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English, www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html

The Northrop Frye Centre, vicu.utoronto.ca/fryecentre/ and
    www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1512651&lastnode_id=1512194

Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website (“Frankfurt School” (Marxist)),
    www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
 

Matthew Arnold,

W.H. Auden Society, www.audensociety.org/  

Jane Austen Information Page, www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html
    Asuten.com, www.austen.com/
    Jane Austen Centre (UK), www.janeausten.co.uk/
    Jane Austen Society of North America, www.jasna.org/

Samuel Beckett Online Resources, samuel-beckett.net/
    www.themodernword.com/beckett/index.html 
    Summer School, www.beckettsummerschool.com/    
    International Foundation, www.beckettfoundation.org.uk/  
    Circle, www.beckettcircle.org/  
    At Reading, www.reading.ac.uk/beckett/  
    Endpage, www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*SBECKETT

Beowulf (McMaster U.), www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html

John Betjeman, www.johnbetjeman.com/

William Blake Archive, www.blakearchive.org/blake/
    Digital text project, www.english.uga.edu/~wblake/home1.html
    The complete poetry and prose, www.english.uga.edu/nhilton/Blake/blaketxt1/
    Online (Tate Gallery), www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/

Bronte Sisters Web, www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html

Lord Byron, englishhistory.net/byron/contents.html
    engphil.astate.edu/gallery/byron.html

Cervantes Project, cervantes.tamu.edu/V2/CPI/index.html

Geoffrey Chaucer page, www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
    Chaucer Metapage, www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/
    Guide to online Chuacer resources, geoffreychaucer.org/
    www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg073.htm

Anton Chekhov, people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
    Friends of Coleridge, www.friendsofcoleridge.com/

Stephen Crane Society, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/index.html

Dante
The Divine Comedy
the text:  www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html
www.italianstudies.org/comedy/index.htm
www.bartleby.com/20/
study guides:  Princeton, etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/
Dartmouth, dante.dartmouth.edu/
Danteworlds, danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
Columbia, dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/ & dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/
Virginia, www.worldofdante.org/
www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg064.htm
Renaissance Dante in Print, www.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/

Robertson Davies,

Daniel Defoe, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/
    www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/3205-04/websites/alan/index.html
    A Paradoxical Genius, www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0047.html

The Dickens Project (UC Santa Cruz), dickens.ucsc.edu/

Emily Dickinson Electronic Archive, www.emilydickinson.org/
    links, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm
    International Society, www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org/

John Dos Passos,

Fyodor Dostoyevski, people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/dostoevskybio.html

Bob Dylan, www.bobdylan.com/us/home

Umberto Eco, www.themodernword.com/eco/index.html

T.S. Eliot website, web.missouri.edu/~umcastselist/tse.html
    What the Thunder Said, www.whatthethundersaid.org/

Ralph Ellison, www.centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/weblio/ellison.html
    On Invisible Man, www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ellison-main.html
    American Masters (PBS), www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ellison_r_homepage.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson, www.emersoncentral.com/
    Complete Works, www.rwe.org/
    Society, www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/

William Faulkner, www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
    Absalom, Absalom Interactive Chronology, etext.virginia.edu/railton/absalom/
    Faux Faulkner and Imitation Hemingway contests (United Airlines)
    Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive, faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/

Henry Fielding, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/fielding/index.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary, www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

E.M. Forster, www.musicandmeaning.com/forster/

Robert Frost,

Northrop Frye, library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/nfrye100/index.html   

Graham Greene, www.grahamgreenebt.org/

Barry Hannah Society, mywebpage.netscape.com/thomasbjerre/

Nathaniel Hawthorne, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/hawthor.htm
    www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm
    Society, asweb.artsci.uc.edu/english/HawthorneSociety/nh.html

Ernest Hemingway Resource Center, www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm and
    www.ernest.hemingway.com/
    A Bad Hemingway Story, badhemingway.com

Homer
Iliad
the text: classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
www.perseus.tufts.edu/
www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm
study guides:  academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Iliad.html
www.temple.edu/classics/iliadho.html
ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/homer.htm
www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg023.htm

William Dean Howells Society, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/index.html

Samuel Johnson, andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/
    Sound Bite Page, www.samueljohnson.com/

James Joyce Centre, www.jamesjoyce.ie/
    The Brazen Head, www.themodernword.com/joyce/index.html
    Summer School, www.joycesummerschool.ie/
    Portal, www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/portal.html

Franz Kafka, www.themodernword.com/kafka/index.html

John Keats, englishhistory.net/keats.html

Milan Kundera, www.kundera.de/english/

Philip Larkin Society, www.philiplarkin.com/ 
    Larkin 25, www.larkin25.co.uk/

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.themodernword.com/gabo/index.html

The Life and Works of Herman Melville, www.melville.org/
    Billy Budd (UVa), xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/BB/bb_main.html

H.L. Mencken, www.mencken.org

John Milton reading room, www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/
    Milton-L home page, www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/
    Darkness Visible (Cambridge U), www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/
    www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg117.htm
    Paradise Lost Audiotexts, www.laits.utexas.edu/miltonpl/

Thomas More, www.thomas-more-online.org/default.html

Nabokov Society, www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/nabsoc.htm
    on Lolita:  John Derbyshire (2006), Frank Meyer (1958)

Flannery O’Connor Repository, mediaspecialist.org/  and
    www2.gcsu.edu/library/sc/foc.html

George Orwell, www.george-orwell.org/
    The Orwell Diaries, orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/
    The Orwell Prize, theorwellprize.co.uk/
    Orwell Archive (UCL), digitool-b.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R/?local_base=ORWELL
    www.k-1.com/Orwell/

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, www.pepys.info/
    www.pepysdiary.com/
    www.bibliomania.com/2/1/59/106/frameset.html

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock Homepage,
    www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/

Charles Portis, www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wvest
    2003 essay about Portis
    2004 essay about Portis

Samuel Richardson, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/richardson/index.html

Rosetti Archive, www.rossettiarchive.org/

Carl Sandberg,

William Shakespeare Complete Works, shakespeare.mit.edu/
    Shakespeare and the Internet, shakespeare.palomar.edu/
    Shakespeare Resource Center, www.bardweb.net/
    Shakespeare Online, www.shakespeare-online.com/
    Absolute Shakespeare, absoluteshakespeare.com/
    Internet Shakespeare Editions, internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html
    Google Shakespeare
    Touchstone, www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/
    Shakespeare Oxford Society (skeptics), www.shakespeare-oxford.com/
    Shakespeare Authorship Coalition (ditto), www.doubtaboutwill.org/
    The Shakespeare Authorship Page (defenders), shakespeareauthorship.com/

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
    www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/mws.html

Percy Shelley, www.wam.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/home.html
    Complete Poetical Works, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/

Tobias Smollett, www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/smollett.htm

Edmund Spenser Homepage, www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm

The National Steinbeck Center, www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
    John Steinbeck: The California Novels, www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/
    Center for Steinbeck Studies, www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/home/index.jsp

Laurence Sterne, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/sterne/index.html

Wallace Stevens, www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/home.html

Tom Stoppard Travesties, www.sff.net/people/mberry/stoppard.htp

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Homepage, www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

Thoreau Society, www.thoreausociety.org/
    Reader, thoreau.eserver.org/

Leo Tolstoy, www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/anna/tg_history.html

John Kennedy Toole 
    Ignatius' Ghost blog (Dunces Tour), ignatiusghost.blogspot.com/  
    2012 biography, corymaclauchlin.com/    
    The Omega Point, 2013 film, jktoole.com/johnkennedytoolehome.html    

Mark Twain in his Times, etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
     Twain Quotes, www.twainquotes.com
     Ken Burns/PBS program, www.pbs.org/marktwains

John Updike Society, blogs.iwu.edu/johnupdikesociety/  
    New York Times page, www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike.html
    2008 Jefferson Lecture (NEH), www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/john-updike-appreciation

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, www.vonnegutlibrary.org/ 
    quotations, www.avclub.com/article/15-things-kurt-vonnegut-said-better-than-anyone-el-1858    

Robert Penn Warren, www.robertpennwarren.com/

Eudora Welty Society, eudoraweltysociety.org/
    Foundation, www.eudorawelty.org/
    Home, www.mdah.state.ms.us/welty/index.html
    Review (Ga State U), www2.gsu.edu/~wwwewn/

Rebecca West Society, www.rebeccawestsociety.com/index.html  

Edith Wharton Society, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/index.html

Walt Whitman Archive, www.whitmanarchive.org/
    www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/whitman.htm

Tennessee Williams,
    www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

P.G. Wodehouse Appreciation Page, www.smart.net/~tak/wodehouse.html
    www.wodehouse.org/
    www.drones.com/wodehouse/
    www.pgwodehousesociety.org.uk/

Tom Wolfe, www.tomwolfe.com/index2.html
    2006 Jefferson Lecture (NEH), www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/tom-wolfe-appreciation

William Wordsworth Trust, www.wordsworth.org.uk/

William Butler Yeats Society, www.yeats-sligo.com/
    Yeats Society of NY, www.yeatssociety.org/links.html
    5 minute BBC interview, 1936, www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/yeatsw1.shtml
 

    NY Times Book Review (once included first chapters of hundreds of books, now apparently no longer).
    Washington Post Book World
    Times Literary Supplement (UK)
    London Review of Books
    NY Review of Books
    The New Republic
    The Complete Review
    The New Criterion and its blog

    Arts & Letters Daily

    American Writers (C-SPAN)
    BookTV (C-SPAN2)
    Booknotes (C-SPAN)  800 non-fiction authors inteviewed 1989-2004
    Wired for Books (Ohio U.'s literary audio site)
    Commentary magazine's blog 
 

Refdesk.com (“the single best source for facts”), www.refdesk.com/

Yourdictionary.com (“the last word in words”), www.yourdictionary.com/

Online Writing Lab (with MLA Style Guide) (Purdue U.), owl.english.purdue.edu/

Social Science Research Network, www.ssrn.com/, has just added an "English & American Literature Research Network"

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, www.h-net.org/
    Includes dozens of “discussion networks,” listed at www.h-net.org/lists/ such as H-Southern-Lit, H-Women, etc.

Intute: Humanities (UK) ("closed" 2011)

The WWW Virtual Library, vlib.org/

Scholars' Guide to the WWW, tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/, by Richard Jensen

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, plato.stanford.edu/

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.iep.utm.edu/ 

Dictionary of the History of Ideas (UVa), etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), www.newadvent.org/cathen/index.html

WWW Virtual Library -- Philosophy,  www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/resources/virtual.html
    and Religion (currently offline)

Large links page (Mt. Mercy U.), www.mtmercy.edu/virtual-library-religion

Bible Research, www.bible-researcher.com/

Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham U.),
    Ancient   
    Medieval   
    Modern  

The Labyrinth: Sources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown U.)  
The Orb: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies 

British:
    BBC History homepage
    Simon Schama, A History of Britain (BBC)
    The History Channel (UK)
    British History resources on Britannia.com
    British History Online -- an amazing site
    British Library Online Gallery and "Treasures in Full"
    History tab of the Official Website of the British Monarchy
    Church of England history tab
    Anglican Timeline
    Bede's World
    Essential Norman Conquest
    Magna Carta
    War of the Roses
    Tudor England
    TudorHistory.org
            The English and Scottish Reformations
     British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60
             Mark Kishlansky's lecture on Cromwell (video)
     Glorious Revolution of 1688 
     Britsh Pathe archive on YouTube (3500 hours of film) 

American:
    American Memory (Library of Congress)
    A Timeline of American Thought  
    American Political History On-line (Richard Jensen, UIC)
    American Experience (PBS)
    The History Channel
    American Studies at UVa, xroads.virginia.edu/  includes many “hypertexts”
    Center for History and New Media (George Mason U.), chnm.gmu.edu/

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