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English, Literature, and Grammar

	Authors and Literature	Books and Reading
	Criticism	English Language
	Folklore and Legends	General
	Poetry	Writing and Grammar

Authors

Authors and Literature

	African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/ African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers.

	American Collection: Educator's Site http://ncteamericancollection.org/ Works of major American authors (Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Langston Hughes, and Henry James) are found at this site. This is a joint venture of PBS, Masterpiece Theatre, and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

	American Literature on the Web http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm The American Literature on the Web site is maintained by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages, Japan. This set of American literature resource pages is mainly a collection of links to sites on the Internet especially dealing with American literature and its social, cultural contexts. It includes homepages and documents on over 300 authors and electronic texts of their works

	American Writers http://www.americanwriters.org/ From March through December 2001, C-SPAN will look at the lives and works of selected American writers. In this series, C-SPAN takes viewers around the country to historic sites, birthplaces and homes associated with the lives and works of these great American writers. Examples: Travel to Philadelphia to explore the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Visit Hannibal, Missouri, to discover the life and works of Mark Twain. Learn about the world and writings of Frederick Douglass and the abolitionists in Washington, D.C. Every program will feature these writers' novels, speeches, diaries, essays and life stories, creating a snapshot of American history.

	British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/index.htm The goal of this project is the design and development of highly accurate and reliable electronic editions of works published by British women poets between 1789 and 1832

	The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: an Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ This is an online publication of all eighteen volumes of Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Includes an index to authors, bibliographies, and chapters. A large resource on literary criticism and history.

	The Electronic Beowulf http://www.uky.edu/%7Ekiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm Edited by Kevin Kiernam and others. The Electronic Beowulf is an image-based edition of Beowulf.

	Gnooks http://www.gnooks.com/ "Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors"

	The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/ Biographies of the writers from Mississippi, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources (including literary criticism) are among the features available here. It is an ongoing project. Presented by the University of Mississippi English Department.

	Literary History http://www.literaryhistory.com/ Literaryhistory.com is an index to free internet articles on topics in English and American literature. It is designed to be convenient and useful for students, scholars, writers, teachers, reading groups, and general readers. All links lead directly to articles, and articles must meet basic academic standards to be included. Literaryhistory.com is edited by Jan Pridmore and has been online since 1998.

	Mark Twain's House and Museum http://www.marktwainhouse.org/about/ The mission of The Mark Twain House & Museum is to foster an appreciation of the legacy of Mark Twain as one of our nation's defining cultural figures, and to demonstrate the continuing relevance of his work, life and times.

	Meet the Author http://collierschools.com/NHS/LMC/YoungAdultAuthors.pdf At this site you can find links to personal web sites of authors who write books for young adults. A very cool site.

	Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose original profession and calling was as a Unitarian minister, left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking. Emerson became one of America's best known and best loved 19th century figures. This site is an excellent resource for a serious study of Emerson’s life, factors that influenced his writing, and contemporary interpretations of his works.

	Romantic Chronology http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/ A history of the romantic period unfolds at this site created by Allen Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Laura Mandell of Miami University of Ohio.

	Romantic Circle http://www.rc.umd.edu/ Romantic Circles is devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

	Sherlock Holmes http://221bakerstreet.org/ At this site you will find 48 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original canon of 60 tales of mystery and detection. Also includes several of the original illustrations.

	The Official Robert Burns site. Welcome to Burns Country http://www.robertburns.org/ A useful handbook to Scotland's most famous poet, Robert Burns.

	Sherlockian.net http://www.sherlockian.net/ You will find everything that you want to know about Sherlock Holmes.

	Today in literature http://www.todayinliterature.com/index.asp Today in Literature is a calendar of engaging stories about the great books, writers, and events in literary history.

	The Walt Whitman Archive http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

	Willa Cather Archive http://cather.unl.edu/ This Willa Cather site is from the University of Nebraska. It includes annotated full texts, images, biographical information, chronology and criticism.

	Zelda Fitzgerald http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/chronology/chronology.asp The complete chronology of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her life and listings of her works..
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Books and Reading


	100 best nonfiction books http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html The list was selected by Modern Library

	Banned Books—American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm Excellent for information and research

	Guys Read http://www.guysread.com/ A literacy program to connect boys with books they will want to read and to give young men more of a say in what they read. A literacy program by Jon Scieszka

	The On-Line Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Index includes more than 13,000 English works in various formats. All are free for personal, noncommercial use. You can search by Author and Title, New Listings, Author, Title, Subject and by Serial Archives. Tom Birt suggested this site.

	Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page The Project Gutenberg is to make information, books, and other materials available to the general public.

	Reading Rants http://www.readingrants.org/ A group of booklists for those of you teens out there who need a good read.

	Sherlockian Net http://www.sherlockian.net/ “Maintained as a labor of love since 1994 by Chris Redmond, a Director of Internal Communications at the University of Waterloo, this venerable yet active metasite offers comprehensive links to everything in 221B Baker Street and beyond. Categories include the original Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, major Sherlockian sites, actors and films, books and libraries, parodies, and Victorian Britain. Put on your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass, and pay a social call.” The Book Report

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Criticism


	The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: an Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ This is an online publication of all eighteen volumes of Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Includes an index to authors, bibliographies, and chapters. A large resource on literary criticism and history.

	Literary Criticiism http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ This Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

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English Language


	The Cliche Finder http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Fill out the form and the search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase.

	Dictionary of Phrase and Fable http://www.bartleby.com/81/ Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog "words with a tale to tell."

	Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/ Do you aim to become a member of the literati, or do you wish to be a savant? Do you want to avoid being verbigerative and be succinct instead? Search the Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words' A-Z index of over 13,900 difficult words to increase your vocabulary or just find out what those words really mean!

	Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/ Type in any word and get a visual presentation of all the synonyms that correspond to that word. Great for visual learners, teachers and students alike!

	Wordsmith.Org http://www.wordsmith.org/ Here's a fun web site. You will find: A.Word.A.Day, Internet Anagram Server, The Wordserver and Listat. Try the Internet Anagram Server. A anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For example, Elvis to Lives.

	Ye Olde English Sayings http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm Beat around the bush, cut through the red tape, minding your Ps and Qs and wet your whistle. Where did they come from?

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Folklore and Legends

	American Folklore http://www.americanfolklore.net/ This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more. So grab a cup of coffee or a soda, pull up a comfy chair, and stay awhile.

	Jean Hersholt : The Complete Andersen http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/index_e.html As the title conveys, The Complete Andersen is a rather extensive collection of Andersen's tales - and this is the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet.

	Legends http://bestoflegends.org/ The Legends web site promises visitors a guided access to primary source material, up-to-date scholarship, personal essays and reviews, historical surveys and commentary, and romance, adventure, and panache. Literature . Folklore . Fiction . The Arts
	World Myths and Legends in Art http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/ This collection of images brings together 26 works of art in the collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts inspired by mythology around the world." The site provides an essay about what is myth, and information and images of art from various world cultures and for mythological themes, such as creation myths and hero myths. Also includes a glossary, bibliography, and materials for teachers.

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General


	Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com Bartleby.com is "the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge." Included are works like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the King James Bible, and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. The site is easy to navigate and the interface is clear and clean. Users may search by keyword across the entire contents of the site or search specific subjects or works. Resources are also listed under the categories "Reference," "Verse," "Fiction," or "Nonfiction." A summary or short note about the origin of the work is given above the search bar for each resource. Reference Librarians will find this full-text site and all that it contains to be very valuable. Best Free Reference Web Sites 2001 Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association

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Poetry


	American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/ Assists the user in finding poems based on single words, boolean methods or proximity co-occurrence. It only searches for American Poetry.

	The Interactive Raven http://www.teachersfirst.com/share/raven/?CFID=447053&CFTOKEN=31875258 Looking for a suitably spooky October lesson unit? If poetry is part of your purview, look no further than the Interactive Raven. It's an online view of Poe's famous poem, complete with vocabulary prompts, examples of poetic devices, and some nice, creepy effects. This is a great one for individual review, or for use with a projector or smartboard as an innovative presentation tool.

	Modern American Poetry: A Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm This is a multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000). Edited by Cary Nelson, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

	Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for America’s High Schools http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, has designed this site for National Poetry Month. Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem each day of the 180 days of the school year.

	Poetry and Music of the War Between the States http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/ If you want to understand the emotions and thoughts of the men who fought in the Civil War and the people who waited for them to come home, read the poetry and music written before, during and after the war.

	Poetry Center http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry/ Go here and sign up for a poem a day for the month of April to celebrate poetry month. Art Sloan suggested this site.

	Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/

	Poets.org http://www.poets.org/

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Writing and Grammar


	A+ Research & Writing for high school and college students http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/ Need to write a research paper? Want to do an A+ job without going totally NUTS? Here's help!!

	Avoiding Plagiarism http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/ Academic writing in American institutions is filled with rules that writers often don’t know how to follow. A working knowledge of these rules, however, is critically important; inadvertent mistakes can lead to charges of plagiarism or the unacknowledged use of somebody else’s words or ideas.

	The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation http://www.grammarbook.com/ This site is an indispensable and entertaining guide for writers, proofreaders, editors, managers, clerical staff, teachers, and students.

	The Five Paragraph Essay http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html You do not have to be a wizard to learn to write excellent five paragraph essays. You do need some basic skill and practice. At this site, you will find the information you need to learn how to write the essay as well as some writing prompts to help you develop skill.

	Grammar Bytes http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm This site has an index of grammar terms, interactive exercises, teacher and student handouts and worksheets (downloadable in both html and Word 97 formats) grammar rules, etc. An English teacher's dream.

	The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/ Did I hear you say you don’t like to write. Here’s help!!!

	OWL Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Purdue"s OWL has been serving the Purdue community and the rest of the world over the Internet since 1993. They offer a website with materials and resources, e-mail tutoring for brief questions about writing (check out the Frequently Asked Questions) and a free weekly e-mail newsletter about writing.

	Paragigm Online Writing Assistant http://www.powa.org/ Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW. It uses hypertext structure to create a web of links and text frames that you can navigate quickly and easily by clicking your desired choice.

	Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html Places to go for help with student plagiarism, how to identify it, what to do when it happens, how to prevent it.

	Writers Write http://www.writerswrite.com/ Your one-stop resource for information about books, writing, and publishing

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