English Language and Literature Resources

Symbolism Dictionary: Look up a symbol and find its meaning. "his symbolism dictionary endeavors to provide some possible cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context."
Symbols.Com: Common graphic symbols which represent words, ideas, concepts and people are offered here. This is the alphabetical index.
On-Line English Grammar: Check here for the mechanics of using the English language. Look up information about parts of speech, and how to properly use them. From a school in England. Includes examples and helpful diagrams.
Etymology Online: A wide variety of information (files) realted to the origins and development of the English language. Includes current usage.
Greek and Latin Roots: Three charts are available here relating to Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes.
Latin Phrases Used In English: Here are some commonly used phrases which are directly from Latin.
Internet Bibliographic Citation Style: When you use information obtained from an electronic source, such as the World Wide Web or Internet, you need to provide a citation in your bibliography or references section. This page tells you how to cite a number of the most common types of Internet resources.
College Bound Reading List: Compiled by Arrowhead Library System, an extensive reading list for those headed for college.
History of American Literature: A handy way to understand how American Literatire evolved as our nation grew from its origins.
English and American Literary Resources on the Net: Another superb collection of Internet resources for the study of Literature, gathered by Professor Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania.
ChildLit Web Guide: A guide to what is available on the Web related to Children's Literature, including links to many full-text sources, discussion group archives, etc.
MidLink Magazine: Magazine by kids ages 10-15.
Sci-Fi: The Dominion: The Dominion is the Sci-Fi Channel online.
Eighteenth-Century Internet Resources: Professor Jack Lynch's thorough collection of Internet resources related to the Eighteenth-Century. Many full-text documents are available.
Mythology, Folklore, Medieval and Classical Literature

The Olympian Gods: Fifteen Greek gods and goddesses are listed here with links to images and information about them. Very thorough and complete set of resources. Nicely organized and easy to use.
Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History: Essay from Project Perseus by Thomas Martin, which describes the world of the ancient Mediterranean cultures in great detail.

Medieval and Early European Mythology and Folklore

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Collection of links to background information about the Medieval Era. Helpful as a resource when studying the myths, legends and literature of this period.

Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress...: "The goal of this project is to produce a collection of "interesting" ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern listener."
The Mary Rose Virtual Maritime Museum: Built on the orders of Henry VIII between 1510 and 1511. After a long and successful period of service she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in the Solent in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were one of the seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology.
Renaissance Forum Resources: Links to Internet information resources related to the English Renaissance (mainly the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.)
Readers' Theatre Scripts: A collection of scripts for readers' theatre provided by storyteller, Aaron Shepard. Available for free educational use.


To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now: This website contains primary source documents, lesson plans, and student work. During the next 3 years, additions will be made which further support the goals of the Teleconferences held in April, 1997 and the teaching of the novel.
Romantic Circles: Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts.
BookWire: BookWire is a comprehensive guide to the book-related resources of the Internet. Book reviews, author information, book-related events, links to publishers and booksellers, a book-related cartoons gallery, and other related topics are to be found here.
Literary Review: Offers fairly thorough reviews of books written by "literary" authors.
Book Page: Mostly brief book reviews on a very wide variety of books and authors, plus interviews with leading current authors.
The Complete Review: This book review site attempts to bring together reviews from a wide variety of online sources.
Ed's Internet Book Review: Fairly brief reviews of popular fiction and non-fiction.
Reviews Online, From New Pages: Links to many excellent sources of book reviews. "The New Pages Weblog and Guides, though not ignoring the best of the mainstream sources, focus on the alternatives -- the work of smaller, independent publishers."
Online Literary Criticism Collection: Leads to over 1,000 websites with criticism and biographical information about authors and their works. These sites are screened and selected for their usefulness, and are generally of a very high quality.

Favorite Poem Project: Sponsored by America's Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress, Robert Pinsky, this Web site gathers the experiences of Americans reading and talking about their favorite poems. It is the launchpad for an experience that is aimed at shearing poetry aloud all over the nation.
American Verse Project- Texts: The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press, is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920.
American & English Poetry: 1250–1920: This superb poetry site (at Bartleby.Com) contains five separate collections of poetry: 1)The Oxford Book of English Verse; 2) Yale Book of American Verse; 3) Modern British Poetry; Modern American Poetry; 4) Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C.; and 5) The Golden Treasury. The collections may be searched by keyword, and browsed via: Indexes to Poems: Chronologic, Author, Title, First Line
British Poetry 1780-1910: Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Electronic Text Center. This project invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1900.
The Modern English Collection: "This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."
Internet Poetry Archive: This archive strives to make selected works of contemporary poets available, and to allow for new ways to study the poets and their texts. Includes sound and graphics.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE): Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is an archive being assembled as a service to the Internet. A free and easy way to access some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
The Tech Classics Archive: An online archive of 184 works (including poetry) by 17 classical authors (in translation), provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The texts are in HTML format, but raw text files are also available. Each work has been segmented into the different books, sections, parts, etc. whenever possible.
Poetry Daily: Poems Arranged By Author Name: A collection of poems, according to their authors. Usually only one poem per author is available. These are mostly modern poems.
Japanese Text Initiative: A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web. Features "100 Poems by 100 poets" text in English, Japanese, and Romaji. Includes Japanese woodblock prints too.
Dogwood Blossoms: An electronic Journal of Haiku. You are welcome to read poems online, written in the style known as "haiku".
Reflections of Leon Malinofsky: Mr. Malinofsky's collection of poets and great thinkers, presented through text and audio links, organized by a series of themes: Voices, Spirit, Passion, Muse, Nature. A friendly, pleasant presentation.
HarperAudio! (Poetry): Recordings online of famous poetical works being read aloud. HarperAudio! and has consented to a limited distribution of HarperAudio! as an 8 kHz computer sound file on Internet Town Hall.


The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: An online set of resources related to the entire subject of philosophy, including biographies of the famous philosophers.
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: A huge file of information related to philosophy and philosophers.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Another place to find out about philosophy.

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