Resources by subject
Old English / Old Norse
Beowulf
The British Library Digital Beowulf project.
Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature
Contains links to Old English texts, including Beowulf and Judith and reference works such as bibliographies of Old English and Anglo Saxon studies.
The Old Norse Language
A site which is under construction containing grammar, phonology and vocabulary.
Medieval
Chaucer Metapage
Includes listings of websites, historical background, bibliographies, criticism, scholarship and links to other resources.
Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase
Links to Middle English texts including Chaucer, Langland, Gawain and the Green Knight and the York and Towneley Plays.
Medieval Drama Links
Including links to texts, articles, bibliographies, productions, music and costume.
Renaissance
Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES)
Internet newsletter, research and CERES links: a gateway to Internet resources on the Renaissance. It includes links on authors, journals, libraries, databases and electronic texts.
Early Modern Literary Studies
Links to sixteenth and seventeenth century resource materials.
The Edmund Spenser Home Page
This page seeks to collect Web materials pertaining to the works and life of Edmund Spenser.
The Globe Theatre
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre website.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
A guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet.
Renaissance Electronic Texts
A series of old-spelling versions of Renaissance English works and access to the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database.
Shakespeare - Complete works
A server of the complete works of William Shakespeare, provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It currently serves all the plays.
Shakespeare on the Internet
Resources on Shakespeare, including criticism and performance, with some original-spelling texts. There are links to pages on Renaissance literature.
Seventeenth Century
English Literature: Early Seventeenth Century
From the Luminarium web site.
The Milton Reading Room
Electronic texts of poems and prose, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes as well as selected criticism of Milton’s works.
Milton-L Home Page
Chronologies, electronic texts, articles and links.
Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-Century Resources
Web sites on eighteenth-century literature and individual authors of this period.
Romanticism
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
An online journal produced by the University of Montreal, Canada.
Gothic Literature
The Literary Gothic
Authors, full text E-texts, links, directories, collections and essays relating to Gothic Literature from the Romantic era to modern literature influenced by the genre.
Nineteenth Century
Jane Austen's Writings
Hypertext versions of Austen works, with complementary materials.
LiteraryHistory.com
A-Z of nineteenth century British authors and poets. Contains criticism, biographical studies, articles on individual works, links to online journals and websites.
The Nineteenth Century English Novel
A bibliographic resource containing links to general sites and authors including Austen, the Brontës, Dickens and George Eliot as well as historical contexts.
Victorian
The Sherlockian Homepage
Devoted to all aspects of the famous fictional detective.
Victorian Web
A collection of resources from Brown University on all aspects of Victorian society.
Victorian Web Sites
Links to over 300 web sites on the Victorian era as well as links to scholars’ homepages.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century.
Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century Poetry in English
More than 140 poets writing in English are covered here. The site includes bibliographies and links to other Web resources.
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Seminars, Wilfred Owen digital archive and more links as well as an online version of The Hydra.
WH Auden Society
Criticism, links and online versions of his poetry.
Drama
Medieval Drama Links
Including links to bibliographies, productions, music and costume.
Theatre and Drama
A collection of links from the theatre and drama section of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
Poetry
Representative Poetry Online
A historical anthology of English poetry from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. It includes about 1,340 English poems.
Women’s Writing
The Brown University Women Writers Project
An electronic listing of women's writing in English before 1830.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century.
American Literature
American Authors on the Web
Links to a large number of American authors covering 1550-1950.
Modern American Poetry
Includes Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman: bibliographies, biographies and extracts from critical works and links.
Welsh Literature
Dylan Thomas
From the Academy of American Poets site, includes biography, selected poems and links to other resources on the Web.
A Tribute to RS Thomas
Poems and links to further resources on the Web.
Welsh Literature
An introduction to Welsh literature in the form of 20 chapters on the subject covering literature from the sixth Century to the twentieth.
Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature: A Guide to the Criticism
An online book by Linnea Hendrickson of the University of New Mexico.
The Children’s Literature Web Guide
Reference works and links, including journals, organizations connected to children’s literature and authors.
The Robin Hood Tradition
The Robin Hood Project
At the University of Rochester. Contains texts, images and bibliographies as well as links to related web sites.
Literary Theory
Glossary of Literary Theory
A-Z of short entries defining different terms and genres in literary theory.
Bibliography and manuscripts
Leeds Database of Manuscript English Verse (BCMSV)
BCMSV contains detailed information about the individual items of English verse contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts belonging to Leeds University Library. It currently contains over 5,000 poems.