Living Literature Library Literary Criticism and Bibliography Literature - Point of View Poetry Shakespeare Electronic Texts Fast Facts - Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Other First Amendment Web Sites

Literary Criticism and Bibliography

Outline of American Literature --by Kathryn Van Spanckeren--offers a series of lectures organized by time period.

Perspectives in American Literature --Paul P. Reuben--Early American Literature to Present-- Primary works, bibliographies, related outside links and a comprehensive list of authors.

20C British Literary Criticism - - Browse by author, literary movement and time period.

Online Literary Criticism - Internet Public Library - Browse by author, title and literary period. Includes foreign works.

Bibliography - Teaching American Literature - Housed at Georgetown University.

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Literature - Point of View

A Celebration of Women Writers - Search by name, date, country and ethnicity.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - From the New York Public Library.

Writing Black - "Literature and history written by and on African Americans".

Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Links to resources for literature, including e-journals.

Library of Congress - Links to their Spanish Reading Room and other interesting stuff.

Native American Authors - Internet Public Library.

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Poetry

Gale Group Library - Free resources at the "Poet's Corner".

Atlantic Online - search for Atlantic's "poetry pages" with interviews, reviews and what's new.

Poets & Writers Magazine - News, trends and what's happening with poets and poetry.

Academy of American Poets - Essays, biographies, poems. Features "find a poem" and "find a poet". Includes a "listening booth".

Academy of American Poets - listing of Rhode Island poets

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Shakespeare

Language

• Shakespeare Resource Center - Grammar
• Shakespeare Resource Center - Language
• Glossary
• Coined By Shakespeare - Some words coined by Shakespeare

Places

• Shakespeare's Globe, London - Education, exhibit, season information.
• Shakespeare & Company - Lenox, MA - Includes performance schedules,
  training opportunities and a photo gallery.

Resources for Teachers

• Folger's Shakespeare Lesson Plans - Teacher-created lesson plans from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a private research institute in Washington DC. Folger houses the largest collection of Shakespearean literature outside of the UK.
• Shakespeare Lesson Plans - From PBS, links to lesson plans for elementary or secondary school.

Also see electronic texts below.

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Electronic Texts

Online Books - University of Pennsylvania - 17,000 listings by author, title, subject and serial. Includes "Prize Winners", "Banned Books", and "Foreign Language".

Oxford Text Archive - Comprehensive site, free downloads. Search by author, title or language.

Shakespeare Bookshelf at Internet Public Library - Links you to Bartleby complete works of William Shakespeare.

Modern English Collection - University of Virginia Library

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Fast Facts - Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Other Resources

One Look Dictionary - This online search system searches 50 general and specialized dictionaries.

Webster's Dictionary

Roget's Thesaurus

Columbia Encyclopedia

Rhyming and More - Rhymes, synonyms, antonyms and more.

Bartleby Book of Quotations - Chronological and alphabetical author index.

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First Amendment Web Sites

American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU

American Library Association - Especially check out "Issues and Advocacy".

Freedom Forum - First amendment and media issues.