Literature, generally

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General Literature Resources | Literary Reference | Genres: Poetry | Short Stories | Oratory | Letters | Parody

General Literature Resources

• EServer - Literature and related subjects (formerly English Server)
• Literary Criticism Collection - Links to over 4,000 sites for literary criticism (Internet Public Library)
• Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
• Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Library of Congress)

• Gale Literary Index - Index to authors and titles in reference series published by Gale. From here, you will need to use your library's materials to look up the full text (either in the library or via its Web site)
• A Literary Index - A meta-site listing many good literature sites, with annotations
• Literature and Composition Resources - Recommended sites for students writing papers
• LitLinks - Links on literary genres, periods, and criticism (Bedford St. Martins)
• Literature Webliography (Louisiana State University)
• Literature on the Internet (Wolfgang Hink)
• LitWeb - Biographies of major authors
• New Pages Guide to Literary Magazines - Also has Reviews of literary magazines
• Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch:
• On the Art of Reading (Bartleby)
• On the Art of Writing (Bartleby)
• Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature (Piet Wesselman)
• Readers and Writers Resource Page - Bookstores, publishers, book lists, reference sources
• Women Writers Project, Brown University

Study Guides:

• Cliffs Notes - Many are available to read free online
• Shmoop Literature Learning Guides and Teaching Resources
• SparkNotes - Study guides to works of literature

Special Topics:

• Children's Literature Center (Library of Congress)
• Index Translationum - Find translations from one language to another (UNESCO)
• Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities - The history of censorship and free speech
• First Lines - Test your skill

Literary Reference

Quotations:

See also

• Oratory, below
• Bartleby.com:

Home of many free quotation sources

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed., 1919
• Respectfully Quoted, 1989


• BrainyQuote - By topic and author
• Creative Quotations
• Internet Public Library: Quotations
• Oxford Dictionaries: Quotations
• Quotations (The Other Pages)
• Quotations Page
• Quoteland
• WikiQuote

Web Directories of Quotation Sites (and other help with quotations):

• Finding Quotations - Research guide (Library of Congress)
• LibrarySpot: Quotations
• Quotation Websites - As recommended by Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations (Find it in a library). Includes sites devoted to specific subjects (such as advertising and film) and authors (such as Lincoln and Twain)
• Quote Investigator - Takes questions

They Didn't Say It:

• Churchill: All the "Quotes" Churchill Never Said
• Jefferson: Spurious Quotation (Monticello.org)

Dictionaries of Literary Terms:

• Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms (Jack Lynch)
• A Glossary of Literary Terms by Robert Harris
• Literary Vocabulary by Dr. L. Kip Wheeler

Other Literary Reference:

See also

• E-Texts, E-Books
• Mythology
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:
• 1898 ed (Bartleby)
• 1894 ed (Bibliomania)
• Literary Hyper-Calendar - This day in literary history
• Forest of Rhetoric: Silva rhetoricae - All kinds of figures of speech, as understood by rhetoricians in the Renaissance
• TV Tropes - Tropes explained and exemplified, not only on TV, but in all the narrative arts

Poetry

• Electronic Poetry Center - Contemporary poets (SUNY Buffalo)
• Library of Congress Poetry Resources
• Locating Criticism of Individual Poems
• Poetry 180 - A poem a day for high schools, selected by former Poet Laureate Billy Collins
• Academy of American Poets - Promotes poetry and poets, not all of them American
• pmpoetry: Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource - Links to pages with poetry
• Poetry Foundation
• Poems and Poets - Find poems by occasion, category, and literary term as well as by title, first line, and poet (Poetry Foundation)
• Representative Poetry Online - Mostly English- and French-language poets (University of Toronto Libraries)

Index:

• Union First Line Index of English Verse, 13th-19th Century (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Theatre

• See Theatre on my Performing Arts page

Short Stories

• Los Angeles Public Library Short Story Index

Oratory, Speeches

• World's Greatest Orations - Ed. by William Jennings Bryan, 1906 (Bartleby)
• American Rhetoric - Great speeches (text, audio, video)
• Best Commencement Speeches, Ever (National Public Radio)
• Douglass Archives of American Public Address
• Gifts of Speech - Speeches by women, 19th and 20th centuries
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby)

Letters

• Letters of Note - "An attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos."

Parody

• Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - Annual contest to come up with the worst first line for a work of fiction