British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Dictionaries and Meanings
Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words,...
University of Houston
University of Houston: English Romanticism
This webite on English Romanticism by Elizabeth Whitney focuses on the Romantic period including defining Romanticism, the history and politics, the Romantic poets, visual arts, and music. It also offers a link to the radio program "The...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Romantic Revival
Explore the world of British Literature from the Romantic Period. This site focuses on information on the authors of the romantic period, as well as links to their works. Check it out.
Other
Beowulf in Cyberspace
Providing translations, maps, essays, and resources, this is a good online resource for students, particularly advanced students, reading and studying the Anglo Saxon poem, "Beowulf." The "Old English" glossary included at this website...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
This site from Bibliomania contains the English translation of the work of the 11th century poet, Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald's translation is the best, and most respected translation of this ancient poem.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Thomas Carlyle
This Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) portal gives access to biographical information about this Victorian social and polticial historian's life and work, such as his importan history of the French Revolution.
Emory University
Emory University: History of Drama
This Emory University resource provides information about the history of drama in the Neo-Classical time period.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones by Charlotte Mary Yonge, a nonfiction book for children.
Other
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Simple Stories for English History
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Simple Stories for English History by Lancelot Speed, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones by Charlotte Mary Yonge, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Royal Children of English History
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of Royal Children of English History by Edith Nesbit, a book of biographies for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Stories From English History
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Stories from English History by Albert Franklin Blaisdell, a book of stories for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: True Stories From English History
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of True Stories from English History by Maira Elizabeth Budden, a nonfiction book for children.
Washington State University
Washington State University: American Literature
A comprehensive site devoted to American literature compiled by a professor of English at Washington State University. Includes an alphabetical index of American authors, with links to biographical information, works online, critical...