Literature, Grammar & Writing

American Literature

• Literature Resource Center (LRC) - TEL
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
• American Authors on the Web
• American Writers Series from C-Span
• American Literature Sites
  Contains brief essays on movements and important concepts in American literature. Each page also contains links to a bibliography of secondary sources for further reading and links to outside sites.
• Gale Literary Index
  Index to Gale Literature series.
• Literary Resources - American
  Index of mostly scholarly literary web resources.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
  4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
• Native American Authors
• Outline of American Literature
  A historical account of American literature, including 20th Century prose and poetry. Published by the United States Information Agency.
• Perspectives in American Literature
  Includes images and bibliographical and biographical information on American writers. The guide has links study questions, and citation information.
• Spark Notes
  Contains study guides on major works of literature written by Harvard students.

English Literature

• Literature Resource Center (LRC) - TEL
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
• British and Irish Authors on the Web
  Large number of links to information about authors from 600 AD to the present.
• Gale Literary Index
  Index to Gale Literature series.
• Literary Resources on the Net
  Index of literary resources available on the Web, focusing on those of interest to scholars. Searchable and organized by period and topic.
• Luminarium
  Specializes in Middle English, Renaissance and 17th-century literature.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
  Contains 4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
• Spark Notes
  Contains study guides on major works of literature written by Harvard students.

Full Text Collections

• Bartleby.com
  Full-text publications of literature, nonfiction and reference resources.
• Bulfinch's Mythology
  Three volume classical work of myths, legends, and romances by Thomas Bulfinch.
• Eserver.org
  Includes a variety of literature-related materials, plus archives of poetry, fiction.
• NetLibrary
  Full-text books in the public domain. Requires free registration. Nashville Public Library no longer offers a netLibrary collection.
• On-line Books Page
  Contains an index of on-line books.
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
  Provides a collection of Classical and Medieval literary works.
• Oxford Text Archive
• Project Gutenberg
  Full-text publications of literature and reference materials, formatted in ASCII.
• Univ. of Va. English Electronic Text Resources
  Browse e-books by subject.

Grammar & Writing

• Common Errors in English
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  Find etymologies and learn about Words with a tale to tell.
• Kentucky Classics - Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
• Grammar, Usage & Style
• World Wide Words
  Index of weird word/phrase definitions.
• APA
  Citing electronic sources.
• Citation Styles
  Summarizes and provides examples for citing web site, e-mail, and other electronic sources using the MLA, APA, Chicago Style, CEB Style and more.
• EasyBib
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
  Writing tutorials, explanations of citation styles (MLA, APA).
• Sources
  Sponsored by Dartmouth College, this site provides examples of how to cite sources.
• Writers Handbook
  University of Wisconsin, guide to footnotes. Outlines the major citation styles.
• Writers Write
• See also Dictionaries & Thesauri

Multicultural Literature

• Literature Resource Center (LRC) - TEL
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
• African American Writers Page
  Resources for educators on African American writers, online texts.
• African Writers: Voices of Change
  African American Writers The Africana Collection at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries provides assistance to scholars seeking library materials in support of research and teaching about Africa.
• Celebration of Women Writers (International)
  Browse lists of women authors by country, period, ethnicity, and writing format.
• Native American Authors
  Listings include bibliographies, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
• Storytellers: Native American Authors On-line
  Includes audio clips of stories.
• Electronic Text Center - African American
  Includes the full text of literature by African American authors.
• Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
• Voice of the Shuttle: World Literature Written in English
  Provides an annotated guide to humanities resources; Contains over 70 pages of links.

Poetry

• Litfinder (Library card required for remote use)
  Search 800,000 poetry citations and 125,000 Full-text poems. Also find short stories, essays, speeches, and plays.
• American Verse Project
  Texts of American poetry prior to 1920.
• Electronic Poetry Center
  Provides an edited collection of primary literary texts centered on contemporary experimental and formally innovative poets.
• Modern American Poetry
  Contains information on 161 Modern American poets and course syllabi based on Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
• Poets.org (The American Academy of Poets)
  Provides poetry news and award winners.
• Poets' Corner
  Contains works ranging from medieval ballads in middle English to traditional ballads, popular songs of centuries past, and interpretations of American Indian chants.
• Representative Poetry Online
  Includes over 2,500 English poems by 403 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
• Sonnet Central
  Contains an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant Web links.
• Twentieth Century Poetry in English
  Contains information relating to 158 poets.

Shakespeare

• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  The Complete works in full-text, divided by scenes.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  Includes a timeline, genealogy chart, bibliography of research on Shakespeare and other features of interest to scholars.
• Shakespeare and the Globe
  University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. Centered around the construction of the replica of the Globe playhouse in London.
• ShakespeareHigh.com
  Formerly, Surfing with the Bard. Contains lesson plans, discussions and reviews of his works.