English Literature->Poetry->By period->Medieval,Middle English(1066-1500)
English Literature->Literature in Translation

This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program,the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page.

1. Life of Chaucer
2. Chronology
3. The Canterbury Tales
4. Translations
5. Chaucer’s Language
6. Middle English
7. Chaucer Glossary
8. Bibliography
9. Other Authors
10. Literary Subjects
11. Courtly Love
12. Life and Manners
13. Pilgrimage
14. Medieval Science
15. Site Index
16. Glossarial Database

URL : http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Keyword(s) : Chaucer Geoffrey,, Literature, 1340?-1400

English Literature->Poetry->By period->Medieval,Middle English(1066-1500)
English Literature->Manuscripts
English Literature->Literature in Translation
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums

This website contains a full text edition of "The General Prologue" to Geoffery Chaucer's The Cantebury Tales. Glosses pop up to facilitate readers' understanding.

URL : http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/indexn.htm

Keyword(s) : Chaucer Geoffrey,, 1340?-1400, Cantebury tales, the general prologue, Middle English, 1100-1500, Literature, Medieval

General Resources->Libraries
English Literature->Literature in Translation
English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)

The Philological Museum is an online library of humanistic texts published by the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. There is a colossal number of letters, plays, poems and essays written by British humanists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The site features texts in Latin as well as in English. Accordingly, this web resource is of use to scholars who study original works and their translations. In addition to numerous online texts, the site contains a bibliography of neo-Latin texts available on the web with links. Moreover, this web provides a search engine for the entire site.

URL : http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/

Keyword(s) : Humanists, England, English philology, Renaissance in literature, Renaissance, 16th century, 17th century, Latin language, Translating into English

English Literature->Poetry->By period->17th century
English Literature->Literature in Translation

This web resource was collaboratively created by Thomas Luxton, associate professor of English at Dartmouth and his students. It has been developed since 1997. The site presents extensive electronic texts of John Milton (1608-1674). There are his Latin poems and prose works as well as his well-known poems. These texts include hypertext links to brief commentary or glossary. There is also a huge bibliography of Milton criticism. Some of the linked critical articles are available. In addition, there are numerous research links to Greek and Latin literature, bible commentary, religion and theology, as well as other Milton sites. The site has received a number of awards, including the Bess Award and the Swan Award.

URL : http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/

Keyword(s) : Milton, John, 1608-1674, Christianity and literature, England, History of doctrines, History and criticism, Protestantism and literature

General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Conferences
English Literature->Biographical Literature
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Literature in Translation

This home page provides an extensive amount of letter collections, lives and works, and marginalia during the 1500-1800 period.

URL : http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/

Keyword(s) : English letters, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Biography