See also :
Documents & Speeches -- eBooks
- Atlantic Online: Fiction and Poetry Pages
New fiction and poetry, and commentary on the classics, from The Atlantic.
- Bibliomania: Best online literature and reference books
"Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts."
- CPL Podcast
"The Cheshire Public Library Podcast is a teen-driven cultural magazine featuring teen writers, musicians, reviewers, commentators, and more."
- Collected Works of Shakespeare
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Complete Shakespeare (1914 Oxford ed.)
Editions of Shakespeare available on the internet. The first site includes a search engine which allows one to look up terms and phrases in the works.
- Electronic Literature Directory
"A descriptive guide to 2346 works, 1190 authors, and 192 publishers."
- Heath Guide to American Literature, v.1
Heath Guide to American Literature, v.2
"Annotated list of sites on American Literature and Culture, organized according to the Heath Anthology Table of Contents."
- Literary Resources on the Net
Links arranged by category to sites with electronic texts of English and American literature.
Poetry Online
Note that poetry is also available at many of the general e-text sites above.
- American Verse Project
Texts of American poetry from before 1920 are made available for personal use, students, and teachers.
- Bartleby.com: Verse
Direct link to the poetry section of Bartleby.com.
- eMule Poetry Archives
Archives of thousands of poems in a searchable database.
- EveryPoet.com
Archive of classic poetry, poetry search engine, link to an online poetry workshop, and more.
- Internet Poetry Archive
Selections from contemporary poets.
- National Poetry Month
Information about poetry and poets and links to poems.
- National Poetry Month
From poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets.
- Poetry Archive
"The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past."
- Poetry Lover's Page
Includes the complete poetical works of Poe, Stevenson, and Kipling, and "best of" selections of some other poets.
- Poetry Portal
"Poetry Portal is a directory or guide to the internet poetry world, a simple-to-use and comprehensive overview of what's currently online."
- Poetry Society of America - Links
Extensive links to poetry events, journals, publishers, Masters' Programs, literary organizations, bookstores, and other resources.
- Poet's Corner
"The goal of this project is to create a user-friendly library of works that promotes browsing and exploring through a site that spans thousands of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years."
- Princeton Poetry Podcasts
"This blog has been set up by the Princeton Public Library in Princeton, NJ to host a series of podcasts by local poets during National Poetry Month in April 2008."
- Representative Poetry Online
From the University of Toronto, a database with over 350 poets represented. Searchable by name, title, first line, or keyword. Includes a timeline, a calendar, a glossary, and criticism.