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    Bartleby

This comprehensive site provides a growing list of full-text Great Books Online, an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, style book and quotation sources. A full-text search engine retrieves from all sources.
(http://bartleby.com/)

    Bohemian Ink

Bohemian Ink, a web site devoted to exploring the past and future of experimental and avant-garde writing, contains this handy guide to "bohemian" writers from the Lost Generation of the 20's to the Beats of the 50's, from the Counterculture of the 60's to contemporary experimental writers. Each entry gives a selection of the author's work, a brief bio, and links to any other pages devoted to the selected author.
(http://www.levity.com/corduroy/authors.htm/)

    A Celebration of Women Writers

This exhaustive resource provides links to pages containing information about and online versions of works by a multitude of female literary artists.
(http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/)

    Literary Resources on the Net

This quick and well organized resource features a simple, but useful, search engine. For author information, just type in the author's last name and click the search button.
(http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/)

    Luminarium

Luminarium is a rich site for researchers of medieval, Renaissance, and 17th century literature. It provides full-text manuscripts, critical essays and scholarly journal articles in a beautifully designed and well organized format.
(http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm)

    Modern American Poetry

The Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides this site for educational use only. Click on "Poets" to retrieve biographical and critical information on poets and their works, literary essays and further Internet links.
(http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm)

    On-Line Literary Criticism

The Internet Public Library offers a growing collection of critical and biographical websites related to writers and their works. One may search by author, title of work, or by literary period.
(http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit)

    Outline of American Literature

This is the complete text, chapter by chapter, of a publication from the U.S. Information Agency. Key Internet Sites is an added feature.
(http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm)

    Poetry Tool

This resource from the Poetry Foundation allows you to browse first by poets, poems, audiovisuals, articles, and children's, then by further appropriate subdivisions; under Children's, for instance, you can browse "Poems to Read," "Poems by Age," "Poems by Category," and "Articles." You can also look for reading guides, live readings, book picks, excerpts from Poetry Magazine, and more.
(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poem.html)

    Poets.org

This is the home page of the Academy of American Poets. "Find a Poet" provides a growing list of poets with pictures, background information, poems, and related web sites.
(http://www.poets.org/index.cfm)

    The Voice of the Shuttle

This remarkable index catalogs a wide variety of pages by period and genre. This is a great place to begin any Internet search on a literary topic.
(http://vos.ucsb.edu/)

See also the Shakespeare Research Guide.