Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Quotes From Coleridge
This site features 79 quotations taken from Coleridge's writings.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Oxford Book of English Verse: Selected Shelley
Links to 13 poems written by Percy Shelley are offered at this site. It also has links to other 17th and 18th century writers.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life
Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, this site offers the full text of Guy de Maupassant's "Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life" which includes 27 short stories. Also provided are...
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Carson Mc Cullers
This site provides biographical information of American author, Carson McCullers.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: George Sand
This site contains an overview of the personal and professional life of author George Sand. Discusses her turbulent personal life and her many affairs, her most famous novels and the themes that were incorporated in her works, and the...
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Allan Sillitoe
This site has a short biography and bibliography of this writer, perhaps best known for "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
Emory University
Emory University: Simone Schwarz Bart
Read this biography on author Simone Schwarz-Bart and learn about the novels she has written, her partnership with Andre Schwarz-Bart, and the major themes that appear in the four novels she has written.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Matching Games: General Knowledge 9: Writers
Play a memory match game by matching six different authors with one of their most famous works.
English Club
English Club: Six Common Mistakes in Esl Writing
This EnglishClub tutorial provides a list, with brief explanations, of the most common writing mistakes made among English as a Second Language students.
New York University
New York University: Bernard Malamud's "Idiots First"
This webpage from New York University contains a summary of and commentary on Bernard Malamud's short story "Idiots First." A list of keywords with links to other works with similar subjects is also provided.
New York University
Nyu: "Washing Your Feet" by John Ciardi
Read a quick summary and analysis of the poem "Washing Your Feet", by John Ciardi.
New York University
Nyu: May Swenson Nature Poems Old & New
A brief analysis of several Swenson poems dealing with the human life cycle, particularly death. The critic calls her style, "both abstract and concrete."
Other
Gerald Grow's Website: Writing & Multiple Intelligences
This site applies the theories of researcher Howard Gardner to the teaching of writing.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Jacques Benigne Bossuet
Fairly detailed English biographical encyclopedia on this famous 17th-century French preacher. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated 1907.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Juliana of Norwich
Brief biography from The Catholic Encyclopedia of Juliana of Norwich, a fourteenth century writer. Details her life experiences as well as her background as a nun, and some of her writing. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is...
Other
Guide to Writing Lyrics
A complete guide to writing lyrics for songs and jingles. Provides good advice and insight in the art of writing lyrics.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Count of Monte Cristo
Written in the 19th centure, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Alexandre Dumas' most famous novels. This site examines in detail the characters, themes and important quotations from the novel.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask takes place thirty-five years after The Three Musketeers. This darker, more sophisticated novel is looked at in depth in this site. Read about the characters, look at the study questions and find out the...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Three Musketeers
In addition to offering a summary of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, this guide contains notes on themes, a collection of quotes, character profiles, interactive quizzes, a list of study questions suitable for reviewing the...
Baertracks
Creative Quotations: Annie Dillard
This website from Creative Quotations offers a lengthy list of quotations on various topics from Annie Dillard's writing. Also includes a very brief biographical sketch. An interesting site overall.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision
This lesson contains strategies for proofreading your assignments. Use the links on the left for a step-by-step method for proofreading and editing for grammar and mechanics. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5
University of Virginia
U Va Library: The Jorge Luis Borges Collection
This resource has a short biography of Borges. The hypertext here includes two copies of his original work including Borges' own drawings.
Cengage Learning
Teaching Clifton: Classroom Issues & Strategies
Some general strategies, discussion questions & teaching information from the Heath Anthology for teachers interested in teaching Clifton's poetry.
University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo: Lucille Clifton
This site from the University at Buffalo gives a page devoted to Clifton that offers an excerpt of her writing, a short biography & bibliography. Also includes photos of the author.