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Blach library: "Search Starter" Links for our
English and Drama Classes

*Other helpful links for these classes arefound in other subject areas. For example, links to the Great Depression are found in the Social Studies--U.S. History Bookmarks.

Reference Books On the Web: Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other helpful reference works online.
Symbolism Dictionary: Look up a symbol and find its meaning. "this symbolism dictionary endeavors to provide some possible cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context."
Symbols.Com: Common graphic symbols which represent words, ideas, concepts and people are offered here. This is the alphabetical index.
On-Line English Grammar: Check here for the mechanics of using the English language. Look up information about parts of speech, and how to properly use them. From a school in England. Includes examples and helpful diagrams.
Etymology Online: A wide variety of information (files) realted to the origins and development of the English language. Includes current usage.
Greek and Latin Roots: Three charts are available here relating to Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes.
Latin Phrases Used In English: Here are some commonly used phrases which are directly from Latin.
ChildLit Web Guide: A guide to what is available on the Web related to Children's Literature, including links to many full-text sources, discussion group archives, etc.
MidLink Magazine: Magazine by kids ages 10-15.
Sci-Fi: The Dominion: The Dominion is the Sci-Fi Channel online.
College Bound Reading List: Compiled by Arrowhead Library System, an extensive reading list for those headed for college.
History of American Literature: A handy way to understand how American Literature evolved as our nation grew from its origins.
English and American Literary Resources on the Net: Another superb collection of Internet resources for the study of Literature, gathered by Professor Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania.
The English Server: The English Server is a cooperative that has published humanities texts to the Internet since 1990. They offer links to many English resources which will be useful in many types of study.

Online Literary Criticism Collection: The Online Literary Criticism Collection leads to over 1,000 websites with criticism and biographical information about authors and their works. These sites are screened and selected for their usefulness, and are generally of a very high quality.
Great Writers and Poets: A collection of Home Pages for poets and writers from modern to ancient. These pages offer background information on many of the persons covered. Includes listings of literary prize and award winners.
The Pulitzer Prizes: The finest works of writing are annually recognized by this famous American prize for 80 years. Includes Pulitzer Prize-winning works from the past three years, including photos, editorial cartoons, music clips and the full text of all winning articles! Awards are given for journalism, letters, drama and music. See especially the Archive and History sections.
Sixteenth Century English Literature: Many of the founders of the long and rich tradition of literature in the English language are documented here, in all their forms. Very thorough and well-documented, with lots of resources. Includes the life, works and articles about them, as well as music from the period.

`General Mythology Links and Reference Materials`

Thomas Bulfinch's "The Age of Fable Or Stories of Gods and Heroes": "...the book probably most responsible (followed by Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Robert Graves' The Greek Myths, the works of Joseph Campbell, and the historical fiction of Mary Renault) for popularizing Greek mythology during the past hundred and fifty years.
Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: "This classic work of reference - described as a browser's joy - has been in popular demand since 1870. The Dictionary is extensively cross referenced, lending itself ideally, to the hypertext environment. This First Hypertext Edition is taken from Dr. Brewer's substantially revised and extended edition of 1894."
World Mythology: Myth by Image: Visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and look at this great collection of images from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China! If you click on the picture, you will discover more about the myths of these cultures. See images organized also as: Myth By Culture, and please note the glossary and other information available.
Myths and Legends: Large general collection of links to information resources about myths and legends.
Myths and Legends From Around the World: A very large and thorough collection of links about the study of mythology from around the world. Includes links to Celtic, Arthurian, Classical (Greek, Roman) and other mythologies.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts: A collection of links to actual texts of folk tales and myths from countries of the world. Also includes links to images associated with the stories and cultures.

The Mythology Project: A Princeton University professor has made information and images available for the Greek myths and heroes. Use their search engine to search this site.
Mythmedia: Mythology In Western Art: The object of this project-- --is to form a collection of art images relating to Classical mythology. This collection consists of scanned images from various periods of Western art which depict the deities, and heroes mentioned in Homer. The images are classified according to the names of the various deities and heroes.
The Olympian Gods: Fifteen Greek gods and goddesses are listed here with links to images and information about them. Very thorough and complete set of resources. Nicely organized and easy to use.

`Medieval and Early European Mythology and Folklore`

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Collection of links to background information about the Medieval Era. Helpful as a resource when studying the myths, legends and literature of this period.
NetSERF: A comprehensive index (with links to resources) for the study of the Medieval Period of history. Please note the helpful glossary of terms used during this historical period.

The Labyrinth: A center for Internet Medieval resources. Includes databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Sponsored by Georgetown University.
Anglo Saxon Culture: Resources such as Beowulf, images from the Book of Kells, and links to other resources related to Medieval Period studies.

William Shakespeare, Complete: This is an online version of the complete works of William Shakespeare, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also includes links to other Internet information resources related to Shakespeare, his life and times.
The Shakespeare Web: An interactive, commercial hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding of Shakespeare's plays and other works. Includes information on current performances of the plays.
Mr. William Shakespeare On the Internet/Web: Dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding of Shakespeare's plays and other works. Includes information on a wide variety of topics related to Shakespeare. This is an excellent place to start research on Shakespeare, his life, and times.
Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress...: "The goal of this project is to produce a collection of "interesting" ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern listener."
The Mary Rose Virtual Maritime Museum: Built on the orders of Henry VIII between 1510 and 1511. After a long and successful period of service she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in the Solent in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were one of the seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology.
Renaissance Forum Resources: Links to Internet information resources related to the English Renaissance (mainly the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.)
Drama Resources
See also the section: Authors, Writers, Poets, and Literary People: A collection of links to resources related to the individual people who create literature of all types, including playrights and dramatists.
Readers' Theatre Scripts: A collection of scripts for readers' theatre provided by storyteller, Aaron Shepard. Available for free educational use.

Books and Book Related Resources

The On-line Books Page: This is the front page for an index of hundreds of on-line books. It also points to some common repositories of on-line books and other documents.
BookWire: BookWire is a comprehensive guide to the book-related resources of the Internet. Book reviews, author information, book-related events, links to publishers and booksellers, a book-related cartoons gallery, and other related topics are to be found here.

Poetry Archives and Collections Online

Favorite Poem Project: Sponsored by America's Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress, Robert Pinsky, this Web site gathers the experiences of Americans reading and talking about their favorite poems. It is the launchpad for an experience that is aimed at shearing poetry aloud all over the nation.
American Verse Project- Texts: The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press, is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920. You'll find this site at www.hti.umich.edu
Search The American Verse Project: Search this poetry archive using key words, names or phrases, or go to the list of poets and poems and scan the list.
Representative Poetry Online: Excellent collection of the great poets of the English language, courtesy of Ian Lancashire. Poetry has been selected with editorial comments by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to 1996. Included is an extensive collection of criticism, both in verse and prose forms. The works are indexed by poet, title, date, keyword and first line.
American & English Poetry: 1250?1920: This superb poetry site (at Bartleby.Com) contains five separate collections of poetry: 1)The Oxford Book of English Verse; 2) Yale Book of American Verse; 3) Modern British Poetry; Modern American Poetry; 4) Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C.; and 5) The Golden Treasury. The collections may be searched by keyword, and browsed via: Indexes to Poems: Chronologic, Author, Title, First Line
British Poetry 1780-1910: Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Electronic Text Center. This project invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1900.
The Modern English Collection: "This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."
Poetry (Literature): A set of links to general poetry resources on the Internet, including poetry, criticism and biography.
Internet Poetry Archive: This archive strives to make selected works of contemporary poets available, and to allow for new ways to study the poets and their texts. Includes sound and graphics.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE): Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is an archive being assembled as a service to the Internet. A free and easy way to access some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
The Tech Classics Archive: An online archive of 184 works (including poetry) by 17 classical authors (in translation), provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The texts are in HTML format, but raw text files are also available. Each work has been segmented into the different books, sections, parts, etc. whenever possible.
Poetry Daily: Poems Arranged By Author Name: A collection of poems, according to their authors. Usually only one poem per author is available. These are mostly modern poems.
Japanese Text Initiative: A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web. Features "100 Poems by 100 poets" text in English, Japanese, and Romaji. Includes Japanese woodblock prints too.
Dogwood Blossoms: An electronic Journal of Haiku. You are welcome to read poems online, written in the style known as "haiku".
HarperAudio! (Poetry): Recordings online of famous poetical works being read aloud. HarperAudio! and has consented to a limited distribution of HarperAudio! as an 8 kHz computer sound file on Internet Town Hall.

`Individual Poets and Authors On the Web`

Willliam Blake Archive

Large collection of writings and drawings of this British poet and artist.

Bob Dylan: Music and Lyrics: An official website for the music and lyrics of the legendary rock singer and composer, Bob Dylan. Includes official lyrics, plus live audio recordings from original albums and concert performances.; Visit the Edgar Allan Poe Musuem in Richmond Virginia. This includes a biography, and links to selected works of Poe.; From the University of Virginia, this is an excellent source for Mark Twain. It includes images, texts and many different exhibits.
William Shakespeare: The complete works of the famous poet and dramatist.

Book Reviews and Criticism

Literary Review: Offers fairly thorough reviews of books written by "literary" authors.
Book Page: Mostly brief book reviews on a very wide variety of books and authors, plus interviews with leading current authors.
The Complete Review: This book review site attempts to bring together reviews from a wide variety of online sources.
Ed's Internet Book Review: Fairly brief reviews of popular fiction and non-fiction.
Under the Covers Book Reviews: Brief plot overviews/reviews of a wide variety of books.
Reviews Online, From New Pages: Links to many excellent sources of book reviews. "The New Pages Weblog and Guides, though not ignoring the best of the mainstream sources, focus on the alternatives -- the work of smaller, independent publishers."
Online Literary Criticism Collection: Leads to over 1,000 websites with criticism and biographical information about authors and their works. These sites are screened and selected for their usefulness, and are generally of a very high quality.

`General Information`

`General Author Resources`

`General Mythology Links and Reference Materials`

`Medieval and Early European Mythology and Folklore`

`Individual Poets and Authors On the Web`