[Tyler Durden]

The list of useful links and sites has now been transferred to the wiki.

To view the full list go here.


Your help is needed with this - the list still needs sorting and checking by people who best understand the subject. If you have time can you sort the list in to relevant topics/areas, check the links still work and write short descriptions for the links without them?

Thanks very much,

RK

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This thread was inspired by silence who posted a great link (the first on the list). I thought it might be a good idea for people to give links to the sites they use related to English Lit. I used to read a fair bit online for my school essays. So, yeah, check them out and post anything you've found useful!

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/index.html - a massive resource by the looks of things with essays and criticism on a wide range of literature.

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Shakespeare/Default.htm - every Shakespeare play (almost!)

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms.html - a pretty good dictionary of literary terms.

So post other links you like. And obviously if you feel you know a better site for Shakespeare plays or for literary terms post them so people have more options.

I hope people think this might be useful! I really like the English subforum - got some good discussions going!

[lskdgjsj]

(Original post by englishstudent)

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Shakespeare/Default.htm - every Shakespeare play (almost!)

The Bartleby Web site itself has the complete works of Shakspere (and countless other masterpieces of Western literature): http://www.bartleby.com/70/.

[Jenna999]

really helpful, thanks.

[silence]

www.perseus.tufts.edu

this site has all of shakespeare's plays online, and a few other rennaisance dramas. but that's not all.

it has an entire shakespeare folio, as scanned images. every page can be viewed, from regular reading size (around 552x897 pixels or something), right down to incredible ultra-fine detail (4640x7540), where you can see the individual print of each letter, and all the other fancy illustrations you get around the titles. it's indredible.

for those who are also classical scholars, it's got tonnes of classical literature on there, also some english translationsm but the latin works have almost every word being 'clickable', with a hyperlink showing you what the latin word means in english, what case, gender, tense etc it is and a whole load more. very good site.

[mousey]

This is probably really obvious but it's helped me with the basics a few times. http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english/

[lskdgjsj]

Nearly forgot, one of my favorite sites: Renascence Editions, a collection of English works printed between 1477 and 1799, generally with the original spelling and punctuation. The Florio translation of Montaigne's Essays alone makes it worthwhile.

[silence]

oh, also www.etymonline.com is a favourite of mine.

a pretty good etymological dictionary giving all the various morphemes and their origins, and dates of first usage.

[Tyler Durden]

More Shakespeare related points of interests (and the plays once more): http://www.bardweb.net/

[etherised]

My all-time favourite Shakespeare site has to be this one. Nothing very special in terms of information - it simply has all the plays and poems. *But* (and it's a big but) - it also has the most amazing search engine. So if you're trying to remember a quote, but can only remember a couple of the words, you can plug them in and it'll find it. Or, if you want to find all Shakespeare's references to, say, the Globe/globe, it'll search through all the plays and poems.

The Shakespeare Fellowship has a set of message boards devoted to Shakespeare. It's pretty lively and the people there seem knowledgeable...

The SCETI site is a place I've only just discovered, so I don't know how useful it is. It's hosted by the University on Pennsylvania and it's got facsimiles of all their rare books and manuscripts.

My absolute favourite thing (aside from Bartleby, which rocks) is OED online - but sadly is a subscription service, so is only available at universities (and wealthy schools, maybe?).

[Endymion]

http://vos.ucsb.edu/ is the best resource for English Literature related links.

I was going to create a sticky myself, but felt I'd just be repeating the links from this site.

[Tyler Durden]

(Original post by Endymion)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/ is the best resource for English Literature related links.

I was going to create a sticky myself, but felt I'd just be repeating the links from this site.

Well that's hit the proverbial nail on the head hasn't it?

[Tiger]

www.guardian.co.uk/books

www.bibliomania.com

www.salon.com

[Veritas]

www.sparknotes.com

[austerlitz]

There are some great, ultra-short synopses and writer biographies on in100words.com.

http://www.in100words.com

[_poptart_]

This website http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=1401 is useful for summaries and a bit of extra help on certain texts; the page ive linked is for comparative texts for WJEC but it has links to other exam boards I think as well x

[lauzt]

www.gradesaver.com

[Am done]

does any one have a site were i can view the meanings of the stories from opening worlds?

[spider from mars]

This isn't much but I was searching for definitions of types of poetry and I found this. It has pretty brief descriptions of just about all the kinds there are, which is often useful to know for fulfilling the "genre" aspect of exam questions.

Poetry definitions

[gringalet]

Let me just go through my favourites. They're bound to be related to specific texts, but that's okay, isn't it?

General
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
http://www.litnotes.co.uk/
http://www.teachit.co.uk (usually has some useful A-level guide things)

Shakespeare
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/Criticism/guide.html
http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/playcriticism.htm (this looks quite good, but i've only just found it, never used it)

Othello
http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~yis.../othello_b.htm
http://www.sparrowsp.addr.com/articl...on_othello.htm

Measure for Measure
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnofram...asuresubj.html
http://www.usna.edu/EnglishDept/MeasureForMeasure.html
http://www.holycross.edu/departments.../mainmenu.html
http://www.rsc.org.uk/measure/general/themes.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/arti...870286,00.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...61487430/print

Medieval Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/
http://www.thomondgate.net/pdf/companion/companion.pdf (again, only just found it, but looks great)

Chaucer
http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/

Kazuo Ishiguro
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/revie...418284,00.html

The Remains of the Day
http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/cur...o/remainso.htm

Victorian Literature
http://www.victorianweb.org/

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between
http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product-...troduction.pdf

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/en...ing/index.html (excellent, excellent, excellent site)

Hope that's useful! I clearly spent far too much time finding things on the Internet...

Gonna miss Eng Lit!

[~Bex~]

www.shakespearehelp.com - info on quite a few shakespeare plays
www.novelguide.com - analysis of loads of novels and shakespeare plays
http://www.eriding.net/amoore/default.htm - a goldmine featuring all sorts of useful stuff!