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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: The Romantic Revival Byron

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the life and works of Byron and several other Romantic-era writers is offered at this site, with links to critical analyses of these works.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: The Romantic Revival: Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to literary criticism of selected poems by Percy Shelley and other Romantic-era poets and writers.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Ap Literature and Composition

For Students 9th - 10th
This an introduction to an AP Literature and Composition online course; it explains the advantages to taking an AP class and the rigor involved. It provides links to the AP Literature Course Description and practice tests, Registering...
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Other

War, Literature & the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This international journal covers film, literature, and visual art. Click on current issue to see what's available. Back issues are not hyperlinked to text. The journal is indexed in the American Humanities Index, Literary Criticism...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Today in History: September 12: H. L. Mencken & Saint Mihiel Offensive

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the life and career of H.L. Mencken and an overview of the Saint-Mihiel Offensive, which began on September 12, 1918, in France. In addition, find links to other sites in the Library of Congress pertaining to the offensive in...
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Other

Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This spectacular site is filled with information about Oates, her work and scholarship about her work. Includes extensive bibliographies, full text of many different works, photos, interviews, and a biography.
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Website
Other

War, Literature & the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This international journal covers film, literature, and visual art. Click on current issue to see what's available. Back issues are not hyperlinked to text. The journal is indexed in the American Humanities Index, Literary Criticism...
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State University of New York

Convention & the Limits of Biography for Lit Crit

For Students 9th - 10th
This web-article is about James Fenimore Cooper and some of the biographical criticism that has been done of his work. Takes to task the shortcomings of this particular critical approach.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Randall Jarrell 1914 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful source on Randall Jarrell. There is an extensive biography, plus excerpts of letters Jarrell wrote about army life during WWII. Critics discuss Jarrell's following works: "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", "2nd Air...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Richard Wilbur's biography and several commentaries about him.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Gary Snyder

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Illinois contains great information on Gary Snyder. The information is presented in a link format with links to various topics, such as: biography, chronology, online interviews, online poems, and on...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Anne Spencer

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth site on Anne Spencer including an extensive biography of this famous Harlem Renaissance poet. Detailed information on her works, education, and contemporaries. Numerous photographs. Some of her poems are also included.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry:gwendolyn Bennett

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a biography of Gwendolyn Bennet, as well as critical essays on some poems. Includes a picture.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: E. E. Cummings

For Students 9th - 10th
This excellent resource offers a solid biography of Cummings (1894-1962 CE), along with a series of "nonlectures" that Cummings himself delivered. This site also provides analysis of many of Cummings' poems, plus a bibliography.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Charles Reznikoff Modern American Poetry Links

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides links to information regarding Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976 CE). Information linked includes biographical essays and interviews with the poet.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Adrienne Rich

For Students 9th - 10th
Rich discussions of several of Rich's famous poems characterize this site from Modern American Poetry. This site offers a picture of Adrienne Rich along with a bibliography, background information, interviews and online versions of her...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Rita Dove

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Dove's poem "Parsley". It contains several interviews and articles about Dove and "Parsley". The text of the poem is not, however, available on this page.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Theodore Roethke (1906 1963)

For Students 9th - 10th
Six reviews on Roethke's following works: "Cuttings," "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schartz", "The Flight"(from "The Lost Son"), "I Knew a Woman," and "North American Sequence."
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Wallace Stevens

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the Modern American Poetry site maintained by the University of Illinois, provides biographical information on Stevens, commentary on many of his poems (including "Anecdote of the Jar" and "The Emperor of Ice-cream"),...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich resource, this site offers biographical, critical and historical information related to Brooks and her work.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Introduction to Practical Criticism

For Students 11th - 12th
An in-depth learning module in literary criticism. Students read and listen to a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt and an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and analyze their structure and meaning. Includes multiple-choice quizzes.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Critical Ways of Seeing the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, learners will consider "Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Stanford University

What Is Deconstruction? Jacques Derrida

For Students 9th - 10th
Easily digestible definition of deconstruction and its influence on literary criticism. Offers bibliography also.
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University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Frankenstein

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent intro/overview to Freud's contribution to literary theory through psychoanalysis. Explains in accessible terms his role and also delves into specific texts such as Frankenstein. Excellent starting point for investigation of...