LANGUAGE ARTS

General Sites	Reference Grammar Quotations	Authors	Literature: American British Contemporary	Shakespeare/ Renaissance
Literature by Time Periods: Medieval 18th Century	Literature by Time Periods: 19th Century 20th Century	Poetry	Fairy Tales, Fables & Literature for Children	Banned Books and Censorship
History of Alphabets, Printing, and the Book	Ancient Greek Theater	ESL	Journalism	Return to Table of Contents

GENERAL SITES

• Beat Page
• Classics Online at the Literature Library
• Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
• Early American Literature 1600 - 1900, Resources for K-12
• Everything English
• Internet Resources in Literature
• Literary Movements
• Online Literature library
• Periods of Classical Literature
• SAT* Test Preparation Practice Exercises – (Online Free)
• Voice of the Shuttle – Literary Theory
• Voice of the Shuttle – Literature (In English)
• Voice of the Shuttle – Literature (Other than English)
• Web English Teacher
• World Literature by Country/Culture

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REFERENCE

• American Authors on the Web
• American Literature Sites
• The American Verse Project
• APA Manual
• APA Manual
• Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events 1620-1920
• Common Errors in English
• Great Writer's and Poets
• Key Terms in Literature
• Literature and Drama
• Literature Resource Center
• Literary Criticism
• Literary Movements
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Merriam Webster Dictionary
• MLA Style Manual
• MLA Style Manual
• Poetry
• Study Skills - Research - Writing - Ap/Sat/Regents - College INFO
• Today in Literature
• Women in The Fine Arts, Film & Literature

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GRAMMAR

• 11 Rules of Writing
• Accents
• Acronmy Finder
• Ask a Linguist
• Common Errors in English
• Dictionary Wars I: Noah Webster
• Elements of Style
• History House – Why English is spelled the Way It is
• Letters, Letter-writing and Other Intimate Discourse
• Online English Grammar
• Online Student Writing Labs
• RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus

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QUOTATIONS

• Bartlett’s Famous Quotations
• Land of Quote
• The Quotation’s Page

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AUTHORS

• American Authors
• American Authors on the Web
• Awesome Library: Biographies
• Biography. com
• Biography: Categorical Index
• Biography Dictionary
• Celebration of Women Writers
• Contemporary Authors
• Domestic Goddesses – 19th Century Women Writers
• Famous Poets and Poems
• Great Books – Author Index
• Great Writer's and Poets
•  Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators
• Internet Public Library: Biographies
• Literary Reference Center
• Literary Traveler – Index of Authors
• Lives, The Biography Resource
• Today in Literature
• Voices from the Gaps – Women Artists and Writers of Color
• Writers by Countries

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LITERATURE

AMERICAN

• American and English Literature Online Books for Educators
• American Authors on the Web
• American Authors
• American Literary Classics
• American Literature Comes of Age (1850-1900) Short Stories and Prose Writing
• American Literature Since 1865
• American Literature Sites
• An Outline of American Literature
• Brief Time of American Literature and Events: Pre1620-1920
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• Colonial America 1600-1775
• Dickinson Electronic Archives
• Documenting the American South
• Early American Literature 1600 – 1900
• Early American Literature 1700-1800 (also known as the Age of Reason, Enlightenment, & Naturalism)
• Early American Literature to 1700 & Puritanism
• Language of the Land – Journeys into Literary America
• Late Nineteenth Century and Realism
• Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910: American Naturalism
• Literary Movements
• Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Romanticism
• Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Transcendentalism
• Simonds History of American Literature
• Southern Literature: Women Writers
• Voice of the Shuttle – American Literature
• Voice of the Shuttle – Minority Literatures

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BRITISH

• 16th Century Renaissance English Literature
• 16th Century Renaissance English Literature 1485-1603
• 19th Century British and Irish Authors
• Anthology of Middle English 1350-1485
• Beowulf in Hypertext
• British and Irish Authors on the Web
• British and Irish Authors on the Web: Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
• Camelot Project
• Chaucer MetaPage
• Electronic Beowulf
• Elizabethan Authors
• Encyclopedia of Arda: An Interactive Guide to the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
• English Literature – The Early Century 1603-1660
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Geoffrey Chaucer – An annotated guide to online sources
• Heros of Legend - King Arthur/Merlin/Robin Hood
• Into the Wardrobe: A C.S. Lewis Web Site
• International Virginia Woolf Society
• Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
• Nineteenth Century English Novel
• Norton anthology of English Literature
• Milton Reading Room
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature
• Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
• Romantic Chronology
• Romantic Circle
• Romantics: English Literature by period
• Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature Index
• Seventy Years at the Hogarth Press: The Press of Virginia and Leonard Woolf
• Teams Middle English Texts
• Treasures in Full: Caxton’s Chaucer
• Victorian Literary Studies Archive
• Victorian Women’s Writer’s Project
• Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800-1900

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CONTEMPORARY

• American Cultural History 1900-1909
• American Cultural History 1910-1919
• American Cultural History of the 1920s
• American Cultural History of the 1930s
• American Cultural History of the 1940s
• American Cultural History of the 1950s
• American Cultural History of the 1960s
• American Cultural History of the 1970s
• American Cultural History of the 1980s
• American Cultural History of the 1990s
• Contemporary Authors

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SHAKESPEARE/RENAISSANCE

• Absolute Shakespeare
• Authorship Debate
• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Elizabethan Authors
• Elizabethan England
• Elizabethan England
• Elizabethan Recipes and Food
• Furness Shakespeare Collection – Electronic Text and Image
• Globe Theater
• Internet Public Library – Shakespeare’s Bookshelf
• London Theaters in the 16th Century
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Renaissance Theme Page
• Shakespeare Home Page
• Shakespeare Illustrated
• Shakespeare Resource Center
• Shakespeare Resources – Electronic Text Center
• Shakespeare: The Authorship Controversy
• Shakespeare Theme Page
• Shakespeare’s Biography
• Shakespeare’s Language
• Shakespeare’s Last Will and Testament
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
• Shakespeare’s Works
• Shakespeare’s Works
• The Shakespeare Problem
• William Shakespeare Collection
• William Shakespeare Resources

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LITERATURE BY TIME PERIODS

Medieval

• Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
• Anthology of Middle English (1350-1485)
• Chaucer MetaPage
• Heros of Legend - King Arthur/Merlin/Robin Hood
• History of the Highwaymen and their Predecessors, the Medieval Outlaws (includes street ballads, songs, satires, and letters)
• Medieval Bestiaries
• Medieval Manuscripts
• NetSERF – The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Petrarch at 700: A collection of Books and Manuscripts From the Collection of the Cornell University Library
• Teams Middle English Texts
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• The Middle World

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18th Century

• Beginnings of the English Newspaper
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789 - 1832
• Eighteenth-Century E-Texts
• Eighteenth-Century Resources
• From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Historical Outline of Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
• Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace
• Portraits of American Women Writers That Appeared in Print Before 1861

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19th Century

• A Hudson River Portfolio
• Academy of American Poets: Edgar Allen Poe
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• American Cultural History: The 19th
• American Fiction, 1851-1875
• Behind Louisa May Alcott's Civil War
• Civil War Literature
• Course Materials, Including Study Guides to Various Works
• Dickens Chronology
• Dickens
• Dickinson Electronic Archives
• Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
• Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• Edward Lear's Nonsense Poetry and Art
• Emily Dickinson International Society
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project
• George Gordon, Lord Byron – 1788-1824
• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
• Jane Austen
• Jane Austen’s World
• Jules Verne Collection
• Knowing Poe
• Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
• Life and Works of John Keats
• Life and Works of Lord Byron
• Mark Twain in His Times
• Mark Twain
• Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial Exhibition
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection
• Nineteenth Century English Novel
• Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
• Novels of Horatio Alger, Jr.
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
• Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
• Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
• Romantic Chronology
• Romantic Circles
• Shakespeare Illustrated
• Songs, poems, stories, memoirs, letters, satires, sermons, and other writings about the English highwayman from the 14th through the 19th centuries
• The Great Awakening & Revivalism in America
• The Horatio Alger Collection
• The Horatio Alger Collection: Rare Books and Special Collection Department
• The Man Who Invented Christmas: Charles Dickens & A Christmas Carol
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
• The Tennyson Page
• Theatre History on the Web
• Thoreau Reader
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• Walt Whitman Archive
• Web of American Transcendentalism
• Women in the Literary Marketplace – 1800 – 1900
• Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930
• Writings of Henry David Thoreau
• Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

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20th Century

• Arthur Miller Society Official Website
• Children’s Books Online
• Don Marquis
• Dreiser Web Source
• Edith Wharton Society
• Ernest Hemingway
• Eugene O’Neill Archive
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• George Orwell
• Herman Hesse Portal
• Hilda Doolittle
• In Cold Blood – a Legacy
• International Virginia Woolf Society
• Jack London Online Collection
• James Branch Cabell -- 1879-1958
• L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz
• Lost Poets From the Great War
• Modern American Poetry
• Nobel Prize in Literature 1949: William Faulkner
• Oprah’s Book Club – Faulkner 101
• Poetry 180 – A Poem A Day for American High School
• Ralph Ellison – An American Journey
• Representing America: The Ken Trevey Collection of American Realist Prints
• Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
• Richard Aldington -- 1892-1962
• Roald Dahl – The Official Website
• Seussville
• Soviet literature
• The National Steinbeck Center
• The Official Eric Carle Web Site
• The Wilfred Owen Association
• Treasures from the German Jewish Cultural Renaissance, 1898-1939
• Truman Capote
• Unspeakable Visions: The Beat Generation and The Bohemian Dialectic
• Western Writers of America
• Walt Disney Family Museum
• Willa Cather Archive
• William Steig, Children’s Book Author
• Wired for Books: Book Beat, from the 1970s through the early 1990s
• Zane Grey's West Society

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Poetry

• Academy of American Poets: Edgar Allen Poe
• American Poets and Poems
• English Poets and Poems
• Famous Poets and Poems
• Lost Poets From the Great War
• Modern American Poetry
• Poetry 180 – A Poem a Day for American High School
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
• Songs, poems, stories, memoirs, letters, satires, sermons, and other writings about the English highwayman from the 14th through the 19th centuries
• Spanish Poets and Poems
• Thematic Poems

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FAIRY TALES, FABLES, AND LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

• Aesop’s Fables
• Aesop’s Fables Online
• Alice In Wonderland Site
• American Folklore
• Anne of Green Gables Encyclopedia Pages
• Canadian Fairy Tales
• Celtic Fairy Tales
• Cinderella Variants
• Czecholovok Fairy Tales
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Dutch Fairy Tales
• Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning
• East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon
• English Fairy Tales 1
• English Fairy Tales 2
• European and Folk Fairy Tales
• Fairy Tales
• Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
• Folk and Fairy Tales Sites
• Folklore
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
• Grimm Brothers' Home Page
• The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimm’s' Fairy Tales)
• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Hungarian Fairy Tales
• Indian Fairy Tales
• Irish Fairy Tales
• ISLMC Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources
• Italian Fairy Tales
• Japanese Fairy Tales
• Japanese Fairy Tales
• Jataka Tales 1
• Jataka Tales 2
• L Frank Baum
• Lewis Carroll Home Page
• Lewis Carroll
• Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Mother Goose: A Scholarly Exploration
• Norse Fairy Tales
• Once Upon a Time
• Philippine Fairy Tales
• Picturing Childhood The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book
• Portuguese Fairy Tales
• Reviews of Kids' Books
• Russian Folk Tales
• Shel Silverstein
• South African Folk Tales
• The Wizard of Oz – Parable on Populism
• True Story of My Life: A Sketch by Hans Christian Andersen
• World Of The Child Two Hundred Years Of Children's Books

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BANNED BOOKS AND CENSORSHIP

• Banned Books – Censorship
• Banned Books and Censorship
• Banned Books On-line
• Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities
• Brief History of Comic Book Censorship

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HISTORY OF ALPHABETS, PRINTING AND THE BOOK

• A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
• Ancient Languages and Scripts
• Ancient Scripts of the world
• Book, Manuscripts and the Printing Press
• Development of Print Technology
• Evolution of Alphabets
• Four Important Periods in the History of the Book
• History of Writing
• Incunabula: Examples of Early Printing
• Johann Gutenberg c.1397-1468 The Invention of the Printing Press
• Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
• PSA and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: A Brief History
• Rise of the University
• Timeline – Printing and Book History

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ANCIENT GREEK THEATER

• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Description of a Theater of 5th Century B.C.
• Greek Theater pictures
• Origins of Theater
• Theater in Ancient Greece
• Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece

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ESL

• Common Errors in English
• Dave’s ESL Café
• Ideas For Working With Students Who Speak English As A Second Language
• National Association for Bilingual Education
• Online English Grammar 

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JOURNALISM

• American Editor
• ASNE – Leading America’s Newsrooms
• ASNE – High School Journalism
• Broadcast Journalism
• High School Journalism
• Investigative reporting resources for high school journalism teachers and students
• Journalism Careers
• The Journalist's Toolbox: High School Journalism
• National Scholastic Press Association
• New York Times on the Web Learning Network: Journalism
• NSPA/ACP Student Media Sourcebook
• Poynter's High School Journalism Guide
• Poynter Online - Everything You Need to be a Better Journalist
• Student Press

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