Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Dryden and His Age
Good discussion of the Age of Dryden. First section of a lengthy article from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Johnson and Boswell
First section of a longer discussion on the Age of Johnson. Taken from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
This is the full text of Henry Fielding's satirical and party autobiographical novel. Commentaries are included.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
This is the full text of the three-act play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde including a list of characters and scenes.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Justice by John Galsworthy
This is the full text of the four-act play Justice by John Galsworthy including a list of characters.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Penn: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Etext)
The whole novel, including illustrations, is reproduced at this site hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. An interesting feature is the brief explanation of the provenance of the work, as well as the inclusion of Anne Bronte's...
University of Pennsylvania
Aurora Leigh: A Poem by Elizabeth B. Browning
Full text of this nine "book" poem is offered by A Celebration of Women Writers at the University of Pennsylvania. There is no accompanying interpretation or analysis.
University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
This site from the University of Adelaide provides the etext of a "Journal of the Plague Year," by Daniel Defoe. It traces the occurrences of 1665 in London through the eyes of the famous novelist, Daniel Defoe.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry: Ww Ii: Sir Winston Churchill
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Sir Winston Churchill and his award-winning speeches during WW II. It features links to a brief history "England in World War II," a Winston Churchill biography, a list...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Introduction
This is an introduction to a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism in British poetry and short stories. Although the works in this unit vary in style and themes, each reflects disorder and an attempt to create a new reality. The unit looks...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Modernism
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism; it focuses on Modernism, a period characterized by writers and artists use of new forms in an attempt to find a new truth and a break from existing institutions, forms, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: William Butler Yeats
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism, focuses on the poet William Butler Yeats. It provides links to hit biography, a virtual tour of Yeats' life and works, and two poems. Students are asked to respond to two questions...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: t.s. Eliot
This is a lesson in a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism and focuses on the poety of T.S. Eliot including "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Links to each of these poems and a biography of Eliot are provided. It...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Dylan Thomas
This lesson from a 20th Century Postmodernism unit focuses on Dylan Thomas and his poetry. It provides links to his biography, two of his poems, and a literary analysis assignment pertaining the literary devices and voice in Thomas's...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century Postmodernism: Short Stories: Virginia Woolf
This lesson is from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism and focuses on Virginia Woolf and her short stories. It includes links to her biography, a timeline of her life, and two short stories: "Death of the Moth" and "Three Pictures."...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: Postmodernism: Short Stories: James Joyce
This is a lesson from a unit on Postmodernism; it focuses on James Joyce, his life and works including the short story "Araby," which is offered in a PDF link for students to read. A link is also provided to a more in-depth biography of...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Short Stories
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism; it focuses on three short stories from the period: "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence, and "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Last Poems by a.e. Housman
This is the full text of Last Poems by the English poet A. E. Housman.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Essays and Tales by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison's (1672-1719 CE) Essays and Tales is reproduced here from the 1888 edition, formatted for online reading.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope
The full text of An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope available in multiple formats.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning
More famous as a poet, Robert Browning also wrote several plays. The entire script of this tragedy is offered here in multiple formats.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Cool Printing Facts
This informational articles provides interesting facts about Johannes Gutenberg's invention, printing press. The author explains how the printing press was important to the writings of William Shakespeare.
Other
New Criterion: "A Craving for Reality: t.s.eliot Today" by Roger Kimball
This 1999 New Criterion essay examines the decline of Eliot's stature in academia and the culture in general due in part to the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Harold Bloom, and Eliot's biographers.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Study the conventions of poetry with Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade". In preparation for the British GCSE test, this site offers a great tutorial for students learning about alliteration, emotion, historical context,...