English: Relevant Websites

Middle English texts in electronic format. Includes the full-text of works by Chaucer, Dunbar, Gower, and others

Award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between.

Shakespeare's plays and poetry

Provides the complete text of the standard guide to Western mythology.

Covers all of the significant and reliable online resources that focus on the (very long) eighteenth century--from Milton to Keats.

Life, works, essays, quotes and works for authors from Middle English, Renaissance and 17th-Century literature.

Information on a variety of topics in the Victorian period, including a timeline, information on genre and technique and author-related links.

A meta guide to websites of use to the scholarly community in the arts, humanities and social sciences. "VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources."

The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

Links to resources on American authors, a timeline, literary movements and other American literature sites created by Professor Donna Campbell of Washington State University.

Information, descriptions and related links focusing on women writers throughout history.

The Harry Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum. Its extensive holdings provide a unique record of the creative process of writers and artists, deepening our understanding of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.

Oxford Dictionaries provides free access that allows users to: explore its current English dictionary and thesaurus; listen to audio pronunciations; browse the grammar hub; and much more.

It is the mission of the Westminster Detective Library to catalog and make available online all the short fiction dealing with detectives and detection published in the United States before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891).

Listen to poetry read aloud, author talks and more at this comprehensive site from the University of Pennsylvania.

The collection covers roughly 7,000 works by about 800 poets, including some of the best known works in the English language, as well as many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading.

"The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it."

"Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy."

"The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education." Professional Publications: Language Arts; School Talk; Talking Points; Voices from the MIddle; Classroom Notes Plus; English Journal; English Leadership Quarterly