Books and Literature
Bedford/St. Martin’s Glossary of Literary Terms A glossary of literary terms from a respected publisher.
Bibliomania Includes free access to fiction, short stories, poetry, drama, literary criticism and author biographies.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare MIT's site currently provides the text to Shakespeare's plays.
Gale Cengage Glossary of Literary Terms Contains longer-than-usual definitions for common literary terms.
Internet Archive: Audio archive
Internet Archive: Text archive
Library of Congress: Poetry This site contains links to the national Poet Laureate website, poetry webcasts, poetry news and events, and poetry reference.
Lit2Go This free collections of stories, biographies and poetry can be downloaded to an MP3 player or to iTunes. Materials are sorted by author, title, age of reader (K to 12th grade), and subject. There are works by Mark Twain, Shakespeare, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, and many others.
MAPS: Modern American Poetry Created as an "Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry," this site serves as a dynamic source for scholarly commentary on certain poets' work, including analyses of particular poems, biographical information, interviews, drafts of poems, etc.
PennSound PennSound is an audio archive of works by approximately 200 contemporary poets.
Poetry Daily Poetry Daily presents an anthology of contemporary poetry, from noted as well as less well known authors. The daily poem is presented with information about the poet and relevant background.
Poetryfoundation.org "The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture."
Poetry Portal Provides links to online poetry, poets, poetry events, publishing, style and themes and poetry-related zines.
Shakespeare Monologues This site offers the "Moby" version of monologues sorted by sex, tragedies, comedies and histories.
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