Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature by Period, vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2968

The Literature Network, www.online-literature.com/

“Literary Criticism” in the Internet Public Library, www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ ("over 1,000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period")

Literary Resources on the Net, andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Lit Links, bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx

Classic Authors, www.classicauthors.net/

MIT Libraries guide to internet resources on literature,
    libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/index.html

Intute: Arts & Humanities: English (UK),   www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/english/

Converse: the literature site for GCSE and A level English and beyond (UK),
    aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/home.acds

Modern English Collection, UVa Electronic Text Center,
    etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

Early American Fiction Collection 1789-1875 (UVa), etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/

American literature materials, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/index.html

American Authors on the Web,
    www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit-G.html

American Literature Archive (U. of Texas), www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, in 18 volumes, published 1907-1921,
    www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

LiteraryHistory.com, www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm

E-Notes literary criticism, www.enotes.com/guides/criticism/

A Glossary of Literary Terms, www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

Literary Timeline,
    www.ncteamericancollection.org/timeline/Calendar_January.htm

Today in Literature, www.todayinliterature.com/index.asp

Catholic Authors, www.catholicauthors.com/index.html

The Writer's Almanac  (NPR)

LitQuotes ("quotations from the great works of literature")

"Great Books" sites
    Access the Great Books  (Encyclopedia Britannica)
    Great Books of the Western World (mirror site)
    The Great Ideas Program (also from EB, with many links)
    Center for the Study of the Great Ideas  (founded by Mortimer Adler)
    WGN Radio Extension 720 (recent books, hosted by Milt Rosenberg)
           Milt's File (his blog)
    NY Times Book Review Reading Room ("conversations about great books")
    National Great Books Curriculum (consortium of community colleges)
    Great Books & Film (Fordham grad students of Mary Nichols, now at Baylor)

More large free text sites
    Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
    The Harvard Classics ("The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume '5-foot shelf of books' and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.")
    Malaspina Great Books home page and blog
    Project Gutenberg ("20,000 free ebooks")
    Electronic Text Center (UVa), including its
        Modern English Collection
    Digital Texts Projects (Columbia U.)
    On-Line Literature Library
    On-Line Books Page ("over 25,000 free books") (U. of Penn.)
    Eserver.org  (Iowa State)
        fiction, http://fiction.eserver.org/
        books collection, http://books.eserver.org/
    ReadPrint ("your free online library")
    WikiSource ("an online library of free content")
    Electronic Classics (Penn State U.)

Poetry
    The Poetry Archive
    Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)
    Modern American Poetry (U. of Illinois)
    20th Century Poetry in English (Kobe U.)
    PoemHunter.com/  (pop-up ads, alas)
    Poetry Archive, www.emule.com/poetry/
    The Poetry Society  (UK)
    Representative Poetry Online  (U. of Toronto)
    British Poetry 1780-1910 (UVa)
    Sonnet Central
    The Art of Reading a Poem (according to Harold Bloom) (audiofile)

Audio Files (famous authors reading their work)
    Harper Collins
    LibriVox

Nobel Prize in Literature, nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/index.html
Pulitzer Prizes, www.pulitzer.org/
National Book Awards, www.nationalbook.org/
PEN/Faulkner Award, www.penfaulkner.org/

Norton Anthology of English Literature,
    www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/welcome.htm
Norton Anthology of American Literature,
    www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/
English Literature in Context (CUP),
    www.cambridge.org/features/literature/poplawski/introduction.htm
 

Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org/

English Literature and Religion (U. of Maryland),
    www.english.umd.edu/englfac/WPeterson/ELR/elr.htm

Medieval Imaginations (Cambridge), www.english.cam.ac.uk/medieval/
Online Medieval & Classical Library (UC Berkeley), omacl.org/

Luminarium Anthology of English Literature (medieval through Restoration),
    www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

The English Renaissance in Context (Penn), dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm

Early Modern Literary Studies,
    E-texts, extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsetxt.html
    Web resources (including blogs), extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html

Eighteenth Century Resources,
    andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/  including
    Eighteenth Century E-texts, andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html

Eighteenth Century English Novel (Brooklyn College), academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/index.html
Cambridge History  of English & American Literature -- The Age of Johnson,
    essays on Richardson, Fielding & Smollett, Sterne and the Novel of His Times,
    www.bartleby.com/220/index.html

Romantic Circles (U. of Maryland),  www.rc.umd.edu/

American Transcendentalism, www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html
Transcendentalists, www.transcendentalists.com/

The Victorian Web, www.victorianweb.org/
Victoria Research Web, www.victorianresearch.org/
Victorian Studies, www.indiana.edu/~victstu/home.htm
Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana U.), www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

The Literary Gothic, www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html

Modernist Journals Project, dl.lib.brown.edu:8080/exist/mjp/index.xml

World War I Poetry website (Oxford U.), www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/

The Modern Word, www.themodernword.com/default.aspx

Southern Literature, academics.vmi.edu/english/southern.html
Library of Southern Literature (before 1924), docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
Southern Literary Review, www.southernlitreview.com/authors.htm
Mississippi Writers Page (Ole Miss), www.olemiss.edu/mwp/
Center for the Study of Southern Culture (Ole Miss), www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/
Center for the Study of the American South (UNC), www.unc.edu/depts/csas/

Punch magazine, www.punch.co.uk/

Pulp Fiction Central, www.vintagelibrary.com/pulpfiction/PulpFictionCentral.php

The Beat Generation Archives, wild-bohemian.com/beats.htm
The Beat Page, www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s (U. of Penn.),
    www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
The Beat Generation and the Sixties (U. of Adelaide),
    www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/english/beats.html
Bohemian Ink, levity.com/corduroy/
Post-World War II American Literature and Culture Database (UC Berkeley),
    english.berkeley.edu/Postwar/default.html

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (U. of Penn.) (many links),
    writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature (Cal State Stanislaus) (many links),
    web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm

American Masters (PBS), www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html

Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English, www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html

The Northrop Frye Centre, vicu.utoronto.ca/fryecentre/ and
    www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1512651&lastnode_id=1512194

Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website (“Frankfurt School” (Marxist)),
    www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
 

Matthew Arnold,

Jane Austen Information Page, www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html
    Asuten.com, www.austen.com/
    Jane Austen Centre (UK), www.janeausten.co.uk/
    Jane Austen Society of North America, www.jasna.org/

Samuel Beckett Online Resources, samuel-beckett.net/
    www.themodernword.com/beckett/index.html
    Endpage, www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*SBECKETT

Beowulf (McMaster U.), www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html

John Betjeman, www.johnbetjeman.com/

William Blake Archive, www.blakearchive.org/blake/
    Digital text project, www.english.uga.edu/~wblake/home1.html
    The complete poetry and prose, www.english.uga.edu/nhilton/Blake/blaketxt1/
    Online (Tate Gallery), www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/

Jorge Luis Borges, www.themodernword.com/borges/

James Boswell, www.jamesboswell.info/
    On Boswell and Johnson, www.geocities.com/sschaeff/

Bronte Sisters Web, www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html

Lord Byron, englishhistory.net/byron/contents.html
    engphil.astate.edu/gallery/byron.html

Cervantes Project, cervantes.tamu.edu/V2/CPI/index.html

Geoffrey Chaucer page, www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
    Chaucer Metapage, www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/
    Guide to online Chuacer resources, geoffreychaucer.org/
    www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg073.htm

G.K. Chesterton, chesterton.org/
    www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/index.html

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
    Friends of Coleridge, www.friendsofcoleridge.com/

Stephen Crane Society, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/index.html

Dante
The Divine Comedy
the text:  www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html
www.italianstudies.org/comedy/index.htm
www.bartleby.com/20/
study guides:  Princeton, etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/
Dartmouth, dante.dartmouth.edu/
Danteworlds, danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
Columbia, dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/ & dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/
Virginia, www2.iath.virginia.edu/dante/
www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg064.htm
Renaissance Dante in Print, www.nd.edu/~italnet/Dante/
entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/

Robertson Davies,

Daniel Defoe, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/
    www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/3205-04/websites/alan/index.html
    A Paradoxical Genius, www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0047.html

The Dickens Project (UC Santa Cruz), dickens.ucsc.edu/

Emily Dickinson Electronic Archive, www.emilydickinson.org/
    links, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm
    International Society, www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org/

John Dos Passos,

Umberto Eco, www.themodernword.com/eco/index.html

T.S. Eliot website, web.missouri.edu/~umcastselist/tse.html
    What the Thunder Said, www.whatthethundersaid.org/

Ralph Ellison, www.centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/weblio/ellison.html
    On Invisible Man, www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ellison-main.html
    American Masters (PBS), www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ellison_r_homepage.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson, www.emersoncentral.com/
    Complete Works, www.rwe.org/
    Society, www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/

William Faulkner, www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
    Absalom, Absalom Interactive Chronology, etext.virginia.edu/railton/absalom/
    Faux Faulkner and Imitation Hemingway contests (United Airlines)

Henry Fielding, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/fielding/index.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary, www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

Robert Frost,

Barry Hannah Society, mywebpage.netscape.com/thomasbjerre/

Nathaniel Hawthorne, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/hawthor.htm
    www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm
    Society, asweb.artsci.uc.edu/english/HawthorneSociety/nh.html

Ernest Hemingway Resource Center, www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm and
    www.ernest.hemingway.com/
    A Bad Hemingway Story, badhemingway.com

Homer
Iliad
the text: classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
www.perseus.tufts.edu/
www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm
study guides:  academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Iliad.html
www.temple.edu/classics/iliadho.html
ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/homer.htm
www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg023.htm

William Dean Howells Society, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/index.html

Samuel Johnson, andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/
    Sound Bite Page, www.samueljohnson.com/

James Joyce Centre, www.jamesjoyce.ie/
    The Brazen Head, www.themodernword.com/joyce/index.html
    James Joyce Portal, www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/portal.html

Franz Kafka, www.themodernword.com/kafka/index.html

John Keats, englishhistory.net/keats.html

Milan Kundera, www.kundera.de/english/

Philip Larkin Society, www.philiplarkin.com/

C.S. Lewis Into the Wardrobe, cslewis.drzeus.net/

Sinclair Lewis Society, www.english.ilstu.edu/separry/sinclairlewis/

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.themodernword.com/gabo/index.html

The Life and Works of Herman Melville, www.melville.org/
    Billy Budd (UVa), xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/BB/bb_main.html

H.L. Mencken, www.mencken.org

John Milton reading room, www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/
    Milton-L home page, www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/
    Darkness Visible (Cambridge U), www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/
    www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg117.htm
    Paradise Lost Audiotexts, www.laits.utexas.edu/miltonpl/

Thomas More, www.thomas-more-online.org/default.html

Nabokov Society, www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/nabsoc.htm
    on Lolita:  John Derbyshire (2006), Frank Meyer (1958)

Flannery O’Connor Repository, mediaspecialist.org/  and
    www2.gcsu.edu/library/sc/foc.html

George Orwell, www.george-orwell.org/
    The Orwell Diaries, orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/
    The Orwell Trust, www.theorwellprize.co.uk/home.aspx
    www.k-1.com/Orwell/

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, www.pepys.info/
    www.pepysdiary.com/
    www.bibliomania.com/2/1/59/106/frameset.html

Walker Percy, ibiblio.org/wpercy/entrance.html

Edgar Allen Poe, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/poe.htm
    Society, www.eapoe.org/works/
    Collected Works, www.pambytes.com/poe/poe.html
    Knowing Poe, knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock Homepage,
    www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/

Charles Portis, www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wvest
    2003 essay about Portis
    2004 essay about Portis

Thomas Pynchon, www.themodernword.com/pynchon/index.html

Samuel Richardson, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/richardson/index.html

Rosetti Archive, www.rossettiarchive.org/

Carl Sandberg,

Shakespeare Complete Works, shakespeare.mit.edu/
    Shakespeare and the Internet, shakespeare.palomar.edu/
    Shakespeare Resource Center, www.bardweb.net/
    Shakespeare Online, www.shakespeare-online.com/
    Absolute Shakespeare, absoluteshakespeare.com/
    Internet Shakespeare Editions, internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html
    Google Shakespeare, books.google.com/googlebooks/shakespeare/
    Touchstone, www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/
    Shakespeare Oxford Society (skeptics), www.shakespeare-oxford.com/
    Shakespeare Authorship Coalition (ditto), www.doubtaboutwill.org/
    The Shakespeare Authorship Page (defenders), shakespeareauthorship.com/

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
    www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/mws.html

Percy Shelley, www.wam.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/home.html
    Complete Poetical Works, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/

Tobias Smollett, www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/smollett.htm

Edmund Spenser Homepage, www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm

The National Steinbeck Center, www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
    John Steinbeck: The California Novels, www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/
    Center for Steinbeck Studies, www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/home/index.jsp

Laurence Sterne, academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/sterne/index.html

Wallace Stevens, www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/home.html

Tom Stoppard Travesties, www.sff.net/people/mberry/stoppard.htp

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Homepage, www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

Thoreau Society, www.thoreausociety.org/
    Reader, thoreau.eserver.org/

James Thurber,

J.R.R. Tolkien,

Mark Twain in his Times, etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
     Twain Quotes, www.twainquotes.com
     Ken Burns/PBS program, www.pbs.org/marktwains

John Updike Homepage, userpages.prexar.com/joyerkes/
    New York Times page, www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike.html

Robert Penn Warren, www.robertpennwarren.com/

Evelyn Waugh, www.catholicauthors.com/waugh.html

Eudora Welty Society, eudoraweltysociety.org/
    Foundation, www.eudorawelty.org/
    Home, www.mdah.state.ms.us/welty/index.html

Edith Wharton Society, www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/index.html

Walt Whitman Archive, www.whitmanarchive.org/
    www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/whitman.htm

Tennessee Williams,
    www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

P.G. Wodehouse Appreciation Page, www.smart.net/~tak/wodehouse.html

Tom Wolfe, Jefferson Lecture and interview (2006),
    www.neh.gov/whoweare/wolfe/index.html

Virginia Woolf Society, www.utoronto.ca/IVWS/

William Wordsworth Trust, www.wordsworth.org.uk/

William Butler Yeats Society, www.yeats-sligo.com/
    Yeats Society of NY, www.yeatssociety.org/links.html
    5 minute BBC interview, 1936, www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/yeatsw1.shtml
 

    NY Times Book Review site includes first chapters of hundreds of books, here.
    Washington Post Book World
    Times Literary Supplement (UK)
    London Review of Books
    NY Review of Books
    The New Republic
    The Complete Review
    The New Criterion and its blog

    Arts & Letters Daily

    American Writers (C-SPAN)
    BookTV (C-SPAN2)
    Booknotes (C-SPAN)
    Wired for Books (Ohio U.'s literary audio site)
    Contentions, Commentary magazine's blog (the Friday feature, "Weekend Reading," is a "greatest hits" sort of thing)
 

Refdesk.com (“the single best source for facts”), www.refdesk.com/

Yourdictionary.com (“the last word in words”), www.yourdictionary.com/

Online Writing Lab (with MLA Style Guide) (Purdue U.), owl.english.purdue.edu/

Social Science Research Network, www.ssrn.com/, has just added an "English & American Literature Research Network"

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, www.h-net.org/
    Includes dozens of “discussion networks,” listed at www.h-net.org/lists/ such as H-Southern-Lit, H-Women, etc.

Intute: Arts & Humanities (UK), www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/

The WWW Virtual Library, vlib.org/

Scholars' Guide to the WWW, tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/, by Richard Jensen

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, plato.stanford.edu/

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.utm.edu/research/iep (includes Philosophy Text Collection)

Dictionary of the History of Ideas (UVa), etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html

Catholic Encyclopedia (1912), www.newadvent.org/cathen/index.html

WWW Virtual Library -- Philosophy,  www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/department/resources/virtual.html
    and Religion, www.facetsofreligion.com/

Bible Research, www.bible-researcher.com/

Online Anglican Resources, justus.anglican.org/resources/index.html
Project Canterbury (several Anglican authors), anglicanhistory.org/

Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham U.),
    Ancient, www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
    Medieval, www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
    Modern, www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

The Labyrinth: Sources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown U.), labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, the-orb.net/

British:
    BBC History homepageBBC History TV & Radio Programmes archive
    Simon Schama, A History of Britain (BBC)
    The History Channel (UK)
    British History resources on Britannia.com
    British History Online -- an amazing site
    British Library Online Gallery and "Treasures in Full"
    History tab of the Official Website of the British Monarchy
    Church of England history tab
    Anglican Timeline
    Bede's World
    Essential Norman Conquest
    Magna Carta
    War of the Roses
    Tudor England
    TudorHistory.org
            The English and Scottish Reformations
     British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60
             Mark Kishlansky's lecture on Cromwell (video)
     Glorious Revolution of 1688

American:
    American Memory (Library of Congress)
    A Timeline of American Thought (Oklahoma State U.)
    American Political History On-line (Richard Jensen, UIC)
    American Experience (PBS)
    The History Channel
    American Studies at UVa, xroads.virginia.edu/  includes many “hypertexts”
    Center for History and New Media (George Mason U.), chnm.gmu.edu/

Rome Reborn (UVA)
VRoma Project

Eyewitness to History

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary