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...
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.
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.
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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.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle
The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Robert Burns (1759 1796)
Read about the life and works of celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns. This resource includes links to many of his poems, an extensive bibliography, and suggested related readings.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
This is the complete text of the novel Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy including a Prefatory Note and a Sequel.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The First Men in the Moon by h.g. Wells
This is the full text of the novel The First Men In The Moon by H.G. Wells, a scientific romance originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
This is the full text of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a prose satire by this Irish writer and clergyman that is both a satire on human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
This is the full text of the book A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy, a collection of short stories. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
This is the full text of the English novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; this classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns...
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The Online Medieval and Classical Library: The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
A complete modern full-text English translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a history of England written between 8th and 12th centuries CE.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Shakespeare's Universalism [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore how Shakespeare was able to write in a way that his characters seemed to express real emotions and will look at the literary devices he used. An extension activity has them analyze what William Hazlitt...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
This is the complete text of the novel Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
This is the complete text of the novel Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Thia is the complete text of the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry:postcolonialism:george Orwell
This lesson from 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on George Orwell and his autobiographical account of "Shooting an Elephant." It features links to the text of "Shooting an Elephant," a study guide/lesson plan, questions concerning...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Monsters
Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, young scholars create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Rudyard Kipling
The Victorian Web provides information from social and political history and a detailed biography to essays about characterization, themes and more, this site offers an excellent variety of resources related to Victorian author Rudyard...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century.: Donne to Butler
An introduction to J.C. Herbert Grierson's book, Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century. This provides a good explanation of metaphysical poetry as a type, and you can access the rest of the book which is a collection of the...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies provides full-text medieval sources. For example, the full text of "Beowulf" can be found here.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Thomas Hardy
What do you know about the life and work of Thomas Hardy? Explore this informative site to learn more about this famous poet.
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