GENERAL LINKS

Ask Oxford.com  http://www.askoxford.com
(Dictionaries, writing tips, language q & a, crosswords)

The Blue Book of Grammar  http://www.grammarbook.com/
(Rules of grammar & online grammar quiz)

The Pulitzer Prize  http://www.pulitzer.org/

Bartleby.com  http://www.bartleby.com/
(Great books online, encyclopedia, thesaurus, dictionary, quotations)

Today in Literature  http://www.todayinliterature.com/

LitLinks  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/home.htm

Quotations & Proverbs Search  http://www.faganfinder.com/quotes/

Find a Quotation  http://www.thinkexist.com/

AMERICAN LITERATURE

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century  http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

American Literature Outline:  Colonial times to the Present 
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

American Literature Timeline  http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html

American Author Studies    http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts.htm

American Women Writers of the 19th Century  http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/eTextLib.htm

Asian American Literature  http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/asianam-culture.html

Ray Bradbury  http://www.raybradbury.com/

Willa Cather  http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/academics/english/cather/

Kate Chopin  http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/chopin1.htm

Sandra Cisneros  http://www.sandracisneros.com/home.html

Early American Fiction  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubindex.html

Early American Literature  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlit.htm

Jonathan Edwards  http://www.jonathanedwards.com/

Ralph Waldo Emerson  http://www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald  http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/

Nathaniel Hawthorne  http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html

Ernest Hemingway  http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/h/hemingway20.htm

Zora Neale Hurston  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/znhintro.html

Zora Neale Hurston  http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hurston_z.htm

Toni Morrison  http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm

Naturalism in American Literature  http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/natural.htm

Joyce Carol Oates  http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/wgoing.html

Tim O'Brien  http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/obrien.html

Edgar Allen Poe  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/poesites.html

Realism in American Literature  http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/realism.htm

Steinbeck, John  http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html

Amy Tan  http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0pro-1

Transcendentalism  http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/

Mark Twain  http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/

Edith Wharton  http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/

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

Women Writers  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/USA.html

BRITISH LITERATURE

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer  http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaubib.htm

Shakespeare.com  http://shakespeare.nowheres.com/

eNotes:  Shakespeare  http://www.shakespeare.com/

Shakespeare Online  http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

Shakespeare Resource Center  http://www.bardweb.net/

BBC News:  Shakespeare Online  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3641880.stm

WORLD LITERATURE

Chinua Achebe  http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html

World Lit Authors List    http://nancykeane.com/rl/185.htm

POETRY

Biographies of Famous Poets  http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/bio/index.htm

A Timeline of Poetry  http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/timeline/index.htm

Selected Full-text Poems  http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/poems/index.htm

American Verse Project (poetry database)  http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

The Academy of American Poets  http://www.poets.org/index.cfm

The Poetry Society of America  http://www.poetrysociety.org/

Online Poetry Classroom  http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/

Internet Poetry Archive  http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/

Elizabeth Bishop, Poet Laureate  http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/

Anne Bradstreet  http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/b/bradstreet1718.htm

Paul Laurence Dunbar  http://www.libraries.wright.edu/dunbar/

Robert Frost  http://www.robertfrost.org/indexgood.html

Louise Gluck (2004 U.S. Poet Laureate)  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/gluck/gluck.htm

Langston Hughes  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm

N. Scott Momaday  http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/annotated/roemer.html

Edgar Allen Poe  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/poesites.html

LITERARY CRITICISM ON THE WEB
Remember:  the best sources for literary criticism are our Reference books & Electronic databases. 

Gale Literary Index  http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
(This is the source that tells you in which reference books you will find your author/title.)

Internet Public Library   http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Lit Links  http://www.smpcollege.com/litlinks/home.htm

Literary Criticism Pathfinder   http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48496

Literary Criticism Glossary  http://www.sil.org/~radneyr/humanities/litcrit/gloss.htm

Reference Guide to Literary Criticism  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML

Literary Criticism Info on Library Spot  http://www.libraryspot.com/features/litcritfeature.htm

The Literary Encyclopedia   http://www.litencyc.com/

Literary History   http://www.literaryhistory.com/

LitFinder  (inside POWER Library database)  http://www.buckslib.org/online_resources/index.htm
[To find a critical review, limit your search to "Essays" with the author or title of the work in
the search term box.]

netLibrary (inside POWER Library database)  http://www.buckslib.org/online_resources/index.htm
[To search for literary criticism, try a "Title" search using the author's name in the title field.]