British and Irish Literature

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British and Irish Literature, generally | Authors

British and Irish Literature, generally

• British and Irish Authors on the Web - Very impressive
• Anglistik Guide - Gateway for Anglo-American language and literature
• Literatures in English - Annotated list of Websites (Library of Congress)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature - 1907-1921 (Bartleby)
• Dictionary of English Literature - Full text, searchable (Bloomsbury)
• A Reading List for English Majors - Major works of English and American Literature (Rutgers)
• WWW Resources for English and American Literature (Indiana University)

  Literature by Period:

• Labyrinth Library: Old English
• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (University of Michigan)
• Online Medieval and Classical Literature - Collected texts
• Contemporary Post-Colonial and Post-Imperial Literature in English
• Early Modern Literary Studies - An e-journal on 16th- and 17th-century English literature
• Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (Bartleby)
• Renaissance Materials - Shakespeare's sources and other English Renaissance material (Perseus)
• Renascence Editions - "An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799"
• A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 (Bartleby)
• VictorianWeb: Authors
• In Their Own Words: British Novelists - Recordings beginning with Virginia Woolf in 1937 (BBC)

Poetry:

• Anthology of Irish Verse - 1922 (Bartleby)
• English Poetry (Harvard Classics via Bartleby):
• From Chaucer to Gray
• From Collins to Fitzgerald
• From Tennyson to Whitman
• Modern British Poetry - Ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920 (Bartleby)
• Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Ed. by Quiller-Couch, 1919 (Bartleby)
• Palgrave's Golden Treasury - 1875 (Bartleby)
• Representative Poetry - English poetry (University of Toronto)

  Theatre:

• Time Out - Theatre and other London happenings
• UK Theatre (what's playing)
• What's On Stage
• Broadway.com - Tickets for Broadway and London shows

Authors

Austen:

• Jane Austen (Henry Churchyard)

Beowulf:

• Beowulf: A Student's Bibliography
• Beowulf: A Study Guide by Roy Liuzza
• Beowulf Translations - A guide to the many translations available, with excerpts of certain passages for comparison
• Electronic Beowulf

Byron:

• International Byron Society - Includes annotated editions of Byron's works

Lewis Carroll:

• Lewis Carroll home page by Joel M. Birenbaum

  Chaucer:

• See my Chaucer page

  Dickens:

• Charles Dickens: An Overview - Links on all facets of Dickens (VictorianWeb)
• Dickens Page
• Discovering Dickens Project - A project of Stanford University to issue Dickens' novels in serial form, just as they were first published

Donne:

• John Donne [Luminarium]

  T. S. Eliot:

• What the Thunder Said: T. S. Eliot
• TSEbase: The Online Concordance to T. S. Eliot's Poems

  Gawain Poet:

• Gawain poet (Luminarium)

Herrick:

• Robert Herrick (Luminarium)
• Herrick - Poems (University of Toronto)

  Johnson:

• Samuel Johnson (Jack Lynch)
• Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page - Dr. J's opinions on many subjects [samueljohnson.com]
• Dr. Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square, London
• Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum and Bookshop, Lichfield

Joyce:

• Work in Progress: A James Joyce Website (Callahan)
• IQ Infinity: The Unknown James Joyce (Barger)
• Brazen Head: A James Joyce Public House (The Modern Word)
• Dyoublong - The Irish Times' Bloomsday page
• James Joyce Centre, Dublin
• Boston College Guide to Ulysses - Sites from the novel charted on Google Maps
• Re: Joyce - Frank Delaney's podcast explicating Ulysses
• Ulysses "Seen" - A comic book version of the novel with commentary
• A Gallery of Bloomsday Cards - Postcards from Dublin sites in Ulysses

Keats:

• John-Keats.com
• Keats - Exhibit at the British Library

A. A. Milne:

• Page at Pooh Corner
• alt.fan.pooh FAQ

Orwell:

• George Orwell - Texts, biography, pictures (orwell.ru [!])

Pepys:

• Pepys' Diary - The famous 17th century diary is presented as a blog in real time (What's this?)

Rushdie:

• Notes on Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses by Paul Brians

Shakespeare:

• See my Shakespeare page

  Sterne:

• Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace - I think Tristram Shandy was written for the Web. It must be an early example of hypertext.

Trollope:

• Anthony Trollope.com - Encyclopedic site devoted to the author (Trollope Society, U.K.)

Virginia Woolf:

• Woolf on the Web