English Related Web Sites

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Academy of American Poets
“...one of the liveliest and most comprehensive poetry sites on the Internet.”
American Authors on the Web
Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka of Nagoya University lists approximately 100 sites that pertain to American authors.
American Studies Web Sites
David Philips of Yale University has compiled this list of sites that pertain to American Studies. He has categorized this list.
Bibliomania
This site contains HTML versions of selected literary works.
Bullfinch’s Mythology
Visit this massive site devoted to Greek and Roman mythology, Arthurian legends, and legends of Charlemagne.
Byzantine and Medieval Web Links
A comprehensive list, divided into categories, of sites pertaining to Byzantine and medieval topics provided by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
A Celebration of Women Writers
“All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.”
The Crucible Project
This West Springfield High School site is dedicated to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its connections to McCarthyism. It offers vast links and images pertaining to the Salem witch trials and the 1950s Red Scare.
David Levin’s List of English Sites
Learning@Web.Sites is an award-winning guide intended primarily for senior high school educators who would like to enhance their curriculum and instruction using the Internet. High school students will also find Learning@Web.Sites to be a rich on-line resource guide. Levin has provided sections for all academic content areas. The broad English section lists a wide variety of web sites that pertain to English topics. He describes the contents of each site and rates these sites.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
This hypertext version of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 edition, offers a search engine to its alphabetical listing.
EduCeth.ch
EduCeth.ch’s alphabetical reading list for class use displays sources and their synopses, author information, additional articles, and feedback.
Favorite Poem Project
View Americans saying the poems they like. Videos and full texts of the poems illustrate the power of the written word and how we are touched by the ideas of others. This site is a partnership among the New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston University and the Library of Congress, with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Boston University, the Knight Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.
First Lines of Novels
An engaging literacy test that asks you to identify the first lines of well-known literary works which have been divided into twenty-two categories.
Gatsby Project
This multi-media web site devoted to The Great Gatsby was developed by three English 11 GT classes at West Springfield High School. Chapter summaries, character identification, significant quotations, and research devoted to ancillary topics complete this vast site.
Kathy Schrock’s Links to Literature and Language Arts
Kathy Schrock has compiled an extensive site devoted to literature and language arts for both teachers and students. This section is only one part of Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators, hosted by the Discovery Channel.
Literary Calendar
Click on any day of the displayed calendar, and events of literary merit will appear. Significant quotations also are displayed in this searchable literary almanac.
Literary Resources on the Net
Jack Lynch has collected and annotated links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts.
Literature and Composition Resources
Dennis Gartner presents Frostburg State’s expansive and informative references to web resources for literature and composition.
Mythology Links
Cathy Horowitz compiled this extensive list of sites devoted to mythology.
Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
This searchable site lists all Nobel prize categories, including the literary winners.
Of Mice and Men
Louise Rutherford of Belmont High School has created a web site devoted to all aspects of Steinbeck’s novel.
Online Literary Criticism
“The Internet Public Library (IPL) Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 2504 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.”
Pulitzer Prize Winners
A visually appealing site that celebrates eighty years of achievement in journalism, letters, drama, and music.
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern...
This indexed site, developed by two West Springfield High School English AP students, explores Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Created by the American Memory Fellows Program of the Library of Congress, this site offers an historical perspective of Harper Lee’s novel. It includes multidisciplinary enrichment opportunities.
Victorianism
George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University, has compiled a vast list of resources pertaining to Victorianism.
Writing Black
This site offers comprehensive links to a wide variety of African-American writers.
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REFERENCE SITES

Educators’ Humanities Site
EDSITEment, a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI WorldCom, and the National Trust for the Humanities, offers a massive list of resources pertaining to the Humanities. It provides lesson plans and web links to a variety of humanities topics.
Fairfax County Public Library
Use your Fairfax County Public Library web site to access a variety of materials. You may even complete transactions with your FCPL library card.
Find a Grave
Search this site to find a photograph of a writer’s tombstone.
Genealogy Links
For those who wish to research their family histories, Cyndi Howell has accumulated an expansive list of resources appearing on the Web.
TheatrePedia
A useful site that provides lists of plays, playwrights, and dramatic terms. It also has links to the texts of plays. It includes many American playwrights and their plays. Students could use this site for looking up dramatic terms and vocabulary or biographical information on playwrights.
Virtual Reference Desk
Dyann Schmidel at High School Hub provides this broad collection of major search engines and reference sites for quick access.
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AUTHOR SITES

Cather, Willa
This web site offers links to various Cather web sites as well as information and help on research and writing papers about this author.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
“This web page, which is under construction, is intended to provide an extra resource for students in Eng 404. You will find a link to the SAC (Studies in the Age of Chaucer) online bibliography of Chaucer studies published from 1975-to the present. This is the best resource to use to find essays about Chaucer and his works, including individual Canterbury Tales. In order to access this bibliography, your web browser must be configured for a telnet application. After you have made the connection, type ‘library,’ and press ‘Enter;’ then type ‘chau.’ Type slowly. You can find citations for essays on individual tales and pilgrims either by doing a keyword search or a subject search. When you have finished using the bibliography, type ‘stop.’ You will also find links here to three different versions of the Canterbury Tales, one in Middle English with glosses, one in Middle English, and a Modern English translation. In addition there are links to resources on other servers that provide information about Chaucer's literary context as well as the Medieval Sourcebook that has a vast collection of primary sources.”
Dickens, Charles
An exhaustive listing of sites pertaining to Charles Dickens.
Dickens, Charles - Gads’ Hill Place
“Welcome to Charles Dickens - Gad’s Hill Place. In 1860, behind his home at Gad’s Hill Place, Charles Dickens tried to cover his tracks. He gathered ‘the accumulated letters and papers of twenty years’ and set them ablaze in his backyard.”
Ellison, Ralph W.
This multi-media web site devoted to Invisible Man was developed by three English 11 GT classes at West Springfield High School. Chapter summaries, character identification, significant quotations, and research devoted to ancillary topics complete this comprehensive, award-winning site.
Faulkner, William
Who better to create a repository of William Faulkner materials but Ole Miss. This expanding site explores Faulkner’s works, identifies his characters, and links to a variety of pages that pertain to him.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The University of South Carolina’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Page.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Eric Eldred’s excellent Hawthorne site at Eldritch Press contains all of Hawthorne’s works, notes on the writings, annotated editions, and lots of other information. This is an essential site for those working on Hawthorne.
Hughes, Langston
Part of the Internet School Library Media Center, this site includes biographical, bibliography, critical, and bibliographical information regarding Langston Hughes.
Melville, Herman
An exhaustive collection of information about Herman Melville.
Morrison, Toni
A collection of links devoted to Toni Morrison maintained by the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
Poe, Edgar Allan
Maintained by the Dauphin County, (PA) Public Library, this comprehensive site is devoted to the life and works of Poe.
Shakespeare and the Internet
“This site proposes to be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet...and to present new Shakespeare materials unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.”
Shakespeare, The Complete Works of
This site offers FAQs, discussion area, glossary, quotations, and links to each of the bard’s plays.
Steinbeck, John
Ed Stephan’s extraordinary site devoted to the works of John Steinbeck. Vast resources are listed for research purposes.
Steinbeck, John
The National Steinbeck Site devoted to all aspects of John Steinbeck’s work.
Thoreau, Henry David
A site devoted to Henry David Thoreau’s work by Jone Johnson Lewis. He has categorized Thoreau’s works, he lists significant quotations, and he provides literary criticism and search engines for finding other materials related to Thoreau and his time.
Twain, Mark
Text, illustrations, and early reviews of Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Virginia H. Cope, University of Virginia.
Whitman, Walt
The University of Virginia’s Walt Whitman Archive offers “digitized images of original documents, transcriptions of those documents, and an elaborate body of introductions, commentaries, and other materials useful in interpreting Whitman’s works.”
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LANGUAGE SITES

American Slanguages
This site features dialects and slang spoken in various cities. Want to know how people speak in Baltimore? Need help to understand someone from New York? Study the American language from many perspectives.
The Book of Clichés
Extensive lists of trite and overused phrases appear in categories on this easy-to-use web site.
Creative Quotations
“...Possibly the largest (and certainly the most creative) quotation resource on the Internet...”
Glossary of Poetic Terms
An extensive handbook of poetry terms. This site offers phonetic pronunciation, cross references, a broad range of definitions, numerous examples, hyper-linked keywords and cross references, a wealth of poetic quotations, and writers’ guidelines.
A Guide to Grammar and Style
Jack Lynch has compiled a “miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage.” Click on the first letter of the word to see his list of answers, examples, and definitions.
A Guide to Grammar and Writing
Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut has created an expansive site for anything having to do with English grammar: words, paragraphs, themes, quizzes, peripherals, PowerPoint presentations, et al. The site is indexed and offers the opportunity to e-mail a grammar question.
Language Sites
Richard Lederer’s delightful list of language sites: etymology, grammar and usage, linguistic links, newsgroups, puns, reference works, word games, word and letter play, and word watching and vocabulary development.
Merriam Webster Language Center
Word of the day, daily word game, word for the wise, and cool new stuff await you at this easy-to-use dictionary site.
MLA In-Text Citations
This site provides sample internal documentation, Works Cited entries, and papers that use the MLA format.
MLA Style Guide
Using the Modern Language Association’s style, these guidelines model appropriate use for citing electronic sources in a documented essay.
On-line Technical Writing
Maintained by David A. McMurrey, Ph.D., this web site, designed to accompany an on-line writing course, defines technical writing and provides examples, models, and case studies for technical writing.
Paradigm Online Writing Lab
An easy-to-use reference for writing, including grammar tips, composition format, and much more. Spend some time browsing this site for hints to improve your writing.
Poetry Online Rhyming Dictionary
A searchable database that enables you to match rhymes.
Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
A well-developed site devoted to all aspects of the writing process.
Puzzlemaker
A site that helps you create individualized puzzles, word searches, mazes, criss-cross puzzles, number blocks, math squares, and cryptograms.
Quotes of the Day
This site provides random motivational and inspirational quotations. It also offers a mailing list.
Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors
An extensive listing of links that pertain to all aspects of writing.
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style
A hypertext version of the classic 1918 writer’s guide.
3-D Thesaurus
A visually pleasing three-dimensional thesaurus guaranteed to mesmerize you. You must see this one!
Wordcounter
This site ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse, or maybe just to find some keywords from a document.
Word Play
An expansive alphabetical listing of sites that offer word play. You can spend hours exploring this site.
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