General Resources->Libraries
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Biographical Literature
English Literature->Manuscripts
English Literature->Prose & Novel->
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Gender Studies
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

This site contains a digital collection of 52 works by 19th-century black women writers. There are also biographies of black women writers. Additionally, a part of this website- the New York digital library functioning as an online exhibition-shows African American migration experiences vividly.

URL : http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

Keyword(s) : African American arts, African American authors, African American women, African Americans in literature, African diaspora, Biography

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Ballads/Myths

This website offers various documents and phamplets related to the 17th century, the "thiry years war', and the 'English civil war.' Additionally, there are texts of blackletter ballads, bibliographies, and links to other useful sites.

URL : http://www.lukehistory.com/resources/index.html

Keyword(s) : Civil War, 1861-1865, 17th century, thiry years war, blackletter, ballads

English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century

The Arthur Miller Society has been a member of the American Literature Association since 1996. This is an active and a well updated site, for international conferences have been held every year up until October 2006, and another one is being planned for 2007. The Arthur Miller Journal is published twice yearly.

Information on current productions, special events and releases in 2007 is listed. Teaching resources and guides for selected plays including articles, ideas for activities, brief synopses for major plays, fiction, non-fiction, and non-dramatic articles and other publications written by Miller himself are available as well. A neat chronological biography of Miller from his birth in 1915 to his death in 2005 is included in this site. The Arthur Miller Society Newsletter archive with abstracts, reviews, notes and queries, and teaching notes can be easily accessed just by clicking the hyper-links, and one can skim through the contents of each newsletter.

This is a very well-organized and user-friendly site.

URL : http://www.ibiblio.org/miller/

Keyword(s) : Arthur Miller, 20th century Drama, American Dramatist

General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Poetry->By period->Medieval,Middle English(1066-1500)
English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)

This website was created and edited by Risa Stephanie Bear at the University of Oregon. This site is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477, when Caxton began printing and 1799, the date of the first edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s collaboration on a new kind of poetry. Namely, the site is an extensive online repository of literary works printed prior to the Romantic era. Accordingly, online texts are available. It is also possible to access the PDF file version of every item. Sorted by authors alphabetically, this site is very easy to search. Moreover, there is a search engine for visitors to quickly locate particular words or phrases. This site offers the earliest editions of works which contain spellings and typography in use at the time of first printing, while many other libraries do not have access to such editions. Thus, it is useful for students to spend a little time experiencing some of the context of the contemporary reading experience.

URL : http://uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/

Keyword(s) : Renaissance in literature, European poetry, Renaissance, 1450-1600

English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Poetry->By period->17th century
English Literature->Poetry->By period->18th century
English Literature->Poetry->By period->19th century
English Literature->Poetry->By period->20th century

This user-friendly site is an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and other helpful web links on relevant matter, and a forum for modern poets to update and discuss their works. Attractively adorned, the sonnets are grouped by period, and authors can be looked up via an alphabetical list for more research. Since this site is designed for general readers, it would be useful for English students up to the undergraduate level. Moreover, it offers sonnets of different countries such as Canada, United States of America, Brazil and so forth. As mentioned in the introduction, since it is aimed at general readers, all of the sonnets included in the site as well as the ones that are linked are in modernized text. Even so, this site will be a stepping stone for more detailed research, and this will definitely guide its users to more helpful resources consisting of critical essays and extensive annotated bibliography.

URL : http://www.sonnets.org/

Keyword(s) : Sonnets, English, Sonnet