American
Comparative
Literature
Association
Is the
principal
learned
society
in the
United
States
for
scholars
whose
work
involves
several
literatures
and
cultures
as well
as the
premises
of
cross-cultural
literary
study
itself.
This
site
mostly
offers
an
opportunity
to
explore
what is
happening
professionally
in this
field.
American
Verse
Project
From the
University
Of
Michigan
Humanities
Text
Initiative
and the
University
of
Michigan
Press. A
searchable
archive
of
mostly
pre-1920
American
poetry.
BBC
Audio
Interviews
Hear
interviews
with
poets
(ranging
from
Maya
Angelou
to
William
Butler
Yeats)
and
writers
(ranging
from
Chinua
Achebe
to
Virginia
Woolf)
British
Women
Romantic
Poets,
1789
--1832.
An
electronic
collection
of texts
from the
Shields
Library,
University
of
California
at
Davis.
Includes
poetry
by
British
and
Irish
women
written
(but not
necessarily
published)
between
1789 and
1832.
A
Celebration
of Women
Writers
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.
Department
of
English
Links
By John
Lye,
Brock
Univesity.
A good
selection
of Web
sites,
including
genre
collections
and
creative
writing.
Middle
English
Compendium
Access
to three
major
Middle
English
electronic
resources:
an
electronic
version
of the
Middle
English
Dictionary,
a
HyperBibliography
of
Middle
English
prose
and
verse,
based on
the MED
bibliographies,
and a
Corpus
of
Middle
English
Prose
and
Verse,
as well
as links
to an
associated
network
of
electronic
resources.
Mr.
William
Shakespeare
and the
Internet
Maintained
by Terry
Gray at
Palomar
College.
Includes
works,
criticism,
theater,
life and
times,
etc.
Ploughshares
The
literary
journal
at
Emerson
College.
Over
2,750
poems,
stories,
and
articles
from the
current
issue
and the
archives
may be
read for
free.
Also, a
multitude
of
Web-only
information
about
many of
the
2,000-plus
authors:
bios,
news,
events,
even
blurbs
about
their
favorite
books.
The
Poetry
Archive.
Provides
links to
poets
reading
their
own
works.
The
president
of the
Poetry
Archive
is
Seamus
Heaney
thepoetryfoundation.org
Home of
Poetry
magazine,
this is
an
enormous
resource
for all
things
poetry.
poets.org
The
Academy
of
American
Poets'
Web
site.
Romanticism
on the
Net
Is an
international
refereed
electronic
journal
devoted
to
British
Romantic
studies.
Shakespeare
in
Quarto
On this
site you
will
find the
British
Library’s
93
copies
of the
21 plays
by
Shakespeare
printed
in
quarto
before
the
theatres
were
closed
in 1642.
Victorian
Web
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.
Victorian
Women
Writers
Project
The goal
of the
Victorian
Women
Writers
Project
is to
produce
highly
accurate
transcriptions
of works
by
British
women
writers
of the
19th
century.
Voice of
the
Shuttle:
English
Literature
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.
Wired
for
Books
From the
Ohio
University
Telecommunications
Center.
Includes
audio
interviews
by Don
Swaim of
CBS
radio of
many
famous
writers
from the
popular
to the
poetic.
There
are also
clips of
modern
writers
reading
their
work.
WSSLinks:
Women
and
Gender
Studies:
Literature
and
Culture
Web
Sites
A
high-quality
list of
Web
sites
maintained
by
Marlene
Manoff
at MIT.
