ENGLISH & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Internet Resources

Hear interviews with poets (from Maya Angelou to William Butler Yeats) and writers (from Chinua Achebe to Virginia Woolf)

Noted for its streaming audio recordings of English-language poets (such as Robert Browning and Elizabeth Bishop) reading their own works.

By Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara. An excellent, comprehensive Web site for all periods of English and American literature, with links to specific author pages, listservs and newsgroups, teaching resources, syllabi, and conferences.

Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, and other media from the Library of Congress. Highlights include 19th century books and periodicals, Walt Whitman's poetry notebooks, Lewis Carroll's scrapbooks, the plays of Zora Neale Hurston, and items from the Federal Theatre Project Collection.

An exhaustive (or exhausting!) list of women writers, from classic to trashy. Searchable by author's name, century, country, or ethnicity. The information/links vary in quality.

A digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. Search, annotate, make public or private sets of annotations, create exhibits or character cue line lists, and download and print text and images.

See high-quality images of 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures; compare "good" and "bad" quartos.

Galleries and bibliographies of relevant information about four centuries of Shakespearean performances.

Online access to performances of Shakespeare from across the globe as well as essays by scholars and educators.

Digitized manuscripts, newspapers, diaries, letters, photographs, and maps from the British Library collections as well as accompanying articles and videos. Explore by author (e.g., Keats) or theme.

A large collection of annotated links to online archives, databases, indexes, and editions.

A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes an archive of Romantic-era texts, peer-reviewed literary criticism, bibliographies, images, and other material.

The "authors section" of this site is maintained by George P. Landow from the National University of Singapore and Brown University. Excellent overview of an author in Victorian times, including political, religious, and social contexts.

Complete, searchable texts of women writing in English during the 19th century in a range of genres, including poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. From Indiana University.