Authors
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 March 8, 1941)
Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Djuna Barnes
Saul Bellow
William Blake (November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827)
An Emergency Online Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts in Blake
William Blake (1757-1827) (biography)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (plates)
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (Edited by David V. Erdman, Commentary by Harold Bloom)
The William Blake Page (poem texts and illustrations)
Blake, William (Blake as an artist, role of his wife in producing his work, images)
Madman, Journeyman, Genius, Prophet... (biography illustrated by several of Blake's prints)
All Religions Are One (7 principles)
Blake's London ("William Blake saw God, the devil and assorted angels at his various homes in the capital. Nigel Richardson walks in a visionary's footsteps.")
"London"
William Blake, "London" (poem text with reading and re-reading questions, explorations, links)
Readings of William Blake's "London"
Sterling Brown (19011989)
Stanley Burnshaw (19062005)
Stanley Burnshaw, Poet, Editor and Critic, Dies at 99
Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky (text, glossary, origins, etc.)
Willa Cather (December 7, 1873 April 24, 1947)
Margaret Cavendish (1623 December 15, 1673)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (biography, list of poems, bibliography)
Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) (quotes, life, works, essays, books, more)
Selected Poems of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (with illustrations)
Selected Work of Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
Women Writers Online: Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653)
Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra (official page)
Billy Collins (1941)
The Best Cigarette Billy Collins (Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his work; 30+ downloadable tracks)
James Fennimore Cooper
Electronic Texts by Cooper in English (I-Novels; II-Non-Fiction, Articles, Short Stories; III-Correspondence)
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings (brief bio)
E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962) (biography)
Daniel Defoe ()
Don DeLillo ()
Don DeLillo (Salon article by Jeffrey MacIntyre)
Life & Times: Don DeLillo (requires NYTimes login)
Literary Criticism on Don DeLillo (bibliography)
Underworld ()
Behind Underworld (Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross on October 2, 1997; 31 mins.)
Thomas Deloney (1543 April 1600)
Thomas Deloney (brief bio)
The Thomas Deloney Page (bibliography)
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830May 15, 1886)
Emily Dickinson (related prose, poets, pages; brief bio; some poems)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (Dickinson's life, critical excerpts on different poems, about Dickinson's use of the dash, links)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (secondary bibliography, FAQ, guidelines for reading her poetry, useful links)
Emily Dickinson (life, poems, general comments, style, themes, links)
Dickinson Electronic Archives (Dickinson's correspondences, responses to Dickinson's writing, rare and out-of-print critical resources)
Emily Dickinson (biography, magazine/journal articles about Dickinson, links)
Emily Dickinson: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books (Cambridge Forum with Alfred Habegger; audio and video, ~1 hour 9 minutes (20 minutes talk + 40 minutes question and answer session))
"Reckless Genius" by Galway Kinnell ("A Pulitzer prize-winning poet pays tribute to the belle of Amherst")
Emily Dickinson Lexicon ("a comprehensive dictionary of over 9,275 words and variants found in the collected poems")
Theodore Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945)
Dreiser on the Web (review and list of links)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (brief bio)
"The Poet and His Song"
The Poet and His Song (with commentary)
"Sympathy"
"We Wear the Mask"
"Paul Laurence Dunbar and Turn-into-the-20th-Century African American Dualism" by James Smethurst
Michael Madhusudan Dutta (January 25, 1824 June 29, 1873)
T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1919) (e-text and notes)
The Prufrock Papers: A Hypertext Resource for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Queen Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533March 24, 1603)
Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603) (biography, Tilbury speech)
Queen Elizabeth I (biography part 1 2 3 4 5, portraits, primary sources)
Queen Elizabeth I (family, education, teenage years, interesting facts; some links don't work)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) (profile, pastimes, women, court life, all the Queen's men, who was who, essays, more)
Queen Elizabeth I (biography, books and videos about Queen Elizabeth I)
Elizabethan Life (brief descriptions of high society, noble obligations, houses, literature, etc.)
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature: Background Information (links to online articles: general introductions, history and politics, economy, royalty, religion and philosophy, science and medicine, the plague, magic, women, music, theater, dance, art, architecture, printing and publishing, food and drink, miscellaneous, journals)
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603) (games, food, money, language, the Queen's suitors, education, maps, etc.)
Modern History Sourcebook: William Harrison (1534-1593): Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577 (from Holinshed's Chronicles) (contemporary account of the period)
Elizabethan/Stuart History (annotated links)
Tudor History (who's who, glossaries of words and terms, image gallery, questions and answers blog, more)
William Faulkner
William Faulkner: A Pathfinder (resources on Faulkner)
William Faulkner (biography, pictures)
Banquet Speech (text and sound recording to speech made at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
University of Michigan Special Collections Library: As I Lay Dying
A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying (friendly site)
"Words and Images in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying" by Yonjae Jung (student paper)
Henry Fielding ()
The Henry Fielding Page (bibliography, bio links)
Donald Finkel
Donald Finkel (b. 1929) (a few links)
Donald Finkel, Writer-in-Residence (picture, blurb)
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Donald
Finkel, a poet-in-residence at Washington University since 1960, has produced a sizable body of innovative poetry over the past two decades. He was born in New York and received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University. Much of his teaching career has been at Washington University where he developed the Writers' Program with his wife, Constance Urdang, but he has also taught at the University of Iowa, Bard College, and Bennington College.
Finkel has written ten volumes of poetry, beginning with The Clothings' New Emperor (1959). His recent work includes A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement (1991). Finkel's work has not received the extensive critical attention often given to the work of other authors; yet, what has been said about his poems is overwhelmingly positive. Finkel is a painstaking researcher and collector of information and his poems reflect this. They are grounded in a thorough understanding and appreciation of their subjects, and often contain "found" texts.
Reflecting Finkel's unique place among American poets, his papers represent one of the more interesting groups in the Washington University manuscript collection. His extensive research materials, journals, notes, and heavily revised manuscripts comprise the bulk of the Finkel Papers. A large collection of editorial matter toward all of his books and a small, yet revealing professional correspondence with editors and literary colleagues completes the Finkel Collection.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 December 21, 1940)
Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963)
Robert Frost (timeline, biography, bibliography)
Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840 January 11, 1928)
Ernest Hemingway
M. Carl Holman (1919 1988)
M. Carl Holman (19191988) (brief bio)
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman ("complete collection of Housman's serious poetry")
A. E. Housman (brief bio)
A.E. Housman's Rejected Addresses (lecture by Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, Oxford; you can listen to the lecture online)
'The lad that loves you true' (review of recently discovered letters)
A Shropshire Lad read by Richard Sater
Henry James ( )
James, Henry (novels, e-texts)
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 October 14, 1965)
Randall Jarrell (brief bio)
Randall Jarrell (links to audio, news and reviews)
Randall Jarrell (brief bio; fives poems, one with audio clip)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) (about, letters, critical excerpts on his poetry)
Ben Jonson (1572 1637)
Ben Jonson (brief bio)
D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885 March 2, 1930)
Jack London (January 12, 1876 November 22, 1916)
John Milton
John Milton (brief bio)
Milton, John (short biography)
Toni Morrison
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (bio, biblio, prizes, critical perspective)
"Why Brownlee Left" (read, listen, watch, teachers notes, bio)
Vladimir Nabokov
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda at 100 by Edward Hirsch
Pablo Neruda (collection of articles about Neruda)
Eugene ONeill
Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan (bio, two poems, link to PBS interview)
Conversation: Pastan (Newshour with Jim Lehrer 2003 interview; video, audio, transcript)
Linda Pastan: "Ethics" (bio, comprehension quiz, as you read, after you read)
Sylvia Plath
The Sylvia Plath Forum (photos, audio, poem analysis, articles, search)
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Christina Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite Women, Part C: Christina Rossetti (literary biography, poems, criticism, resources)
Anne Sexton (19281974)
A Brief Biography of the Life of Anne Sexton (Prof. Tim Morris; see also his Anne Sexton page)
William Shakespeare (1564 23 April 1616)
Shakespeare Online (with guides to different works)
Absolute Shakespeare (pictures, works, more)
Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
Sonnet XVIII (text and some gloss)
The Darling Buds of May: A Guide to Sonnet 18 (annotations, paraphrase, commentary, references; by Amanda Mabillard)
Commentary: Sonnet XVIII (line by line)
Mary Shelley
Philip Sidney
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 July 29, 1946)
John Steinbeck
Wallace Stevens
A Discussion of Wallace Stevens' Poetry (.ram file)
Anne Stevenson ()
"In Time, and Out: Women's Poetry and Literary History" by Angela Leighton (critical article on her poetry)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (RealPlayer audio of Tennyson reading poem, remember this was recorded in 1890 on wax cylinders)
Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 August 11, 1937)
Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places (exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery)
William Hale White (December 22, 1831 - March 14, 1913)
Walt Whitman ()
William Carlos Williams
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850)
William Wordsworth (brief bio)
William Wordsworth: An Overview (biography, work, themes)
Wordsworth's Women: Female Creative Power in Lyrical Ballads
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 28 January 1939)
The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography by Terence Brown (Chapter 1)
William Butler Yeats (brief bio, audio of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree")
W. B. Yeats (brief bio, several poems)
Collected Poems (e-text)
The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats (virtual exhibition, resources, news and events)
Links
American Authors (author info links)
American Literature: Related Resources (author info links)
American Novel: Resources (author information links)
Today in Literature: Alphabetical Index of Authors (author biographies)
Women's Poetry: Selections (with links to relevant info)
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