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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Works of Matthew Arnold

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Victorian Web includes a complete list of the works of Matthew Arnold, with links to related essays and sometimes to the texts themselves.
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Literary Criticism: Review of Alciphron, a Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of Thomas Moore's poem "Alciphron" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Arthur Conan Doyle

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Arthur Conan Doyle. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne" by Anthony Trollope

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne" by Anthony Trollope, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Other

Dickenson College: Blake on Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Dickenson College provides a look at William Blake's philosohy on nature as evident in his writings. Provides links to other criticisms as well.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: Robert Burns, "A Sonnet Upon Sonnets"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a sonnet from Robert Burns entitled, "A Sonnet Upon Sonnets." Burns' less-than-serious look at what constitutes a sonnet.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Oxford Book of English Verse: Selected Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to 13 poems written by Percy Shelley are offered at this site. It also has links to other 17th and 18th century writers.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Chronologic Index of Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, under the Chronologic Index of Authors, are links to three of Lamb's poems, near the bottom of the page.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotations by Robert Burns

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has seventy quotations from works by Robert Burns.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotations of Samuel Butler

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a list of quotes from Samuel Butler, compiled by John Bartlett.
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Other

Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-text of Charles Lamb's enchanting 1811 narrative poem is illustrated with period drawings from the original edition.
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University of Pennsylvania

Digital Library Works of Christina Rossetti

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides the text to "Goblin Market" and "Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme" written by Christina Rossetti.
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Baertracks

Creative Quotations: Amos Bronson Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a brief collection of quotes from the writings of the educator and transcendentalist Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). Also provides source information.
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Baertracks

Creative Quotations: Margaret Fuller (1810 1850)

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected quotations from the writing of Margaret Fuller. A brief biography and source information are included.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Dial and George Ripley

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the role of George Ripley as assistant editor to "The Dial," and examines the importance of the publication in the transcendental movement.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: William Blake (1757 1827)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a sonnet called "To an Evening Star" by William Blake.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822)

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to the texts of five sonnets written by Percy Shelley are provided at this site.