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English and Literature

09/24/2004

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Web English Teacher
The English Room
English Online - This site is a vast professional development resource for teachers of  English in New Zealand and worldwide. Educators will find over 150 fully resourced and downloadable teaching units, professional readings, and selected links.
The Magpie Sings the Great Depression - This website presents almost 200 poems, articles, and short stories and many graphics and photographs from The Magpie, literary magazine of Dewitt Clinton High School, encompassing the years 1929 to 1942.
 EDSITEment in the Humanities - created to help humanities teachers use the Internet more effectively in their teaching.  The site encompasses 49 unrelated individual Web sites with current, accurate, accessible, and rich information in such core humanities subjects as literature and the language arts, history and social studies, government, and foreign languages. 
Language Arts - Federal Resources

Research Papers

 

Authors

  • Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and  Work -  Contents include a biography of the poet; a timeline of his life and work; portraits of him, his friends, and his family; selections from his works; information on his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke, and his lover, Lady Carolyn Lamb; and more on this writer of the English romantic era.
  • CyberGuides - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
  • Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web. Another Mark Twain site
  • The Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare
  • Collected Works of Shakespeare
  • Everything Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare's Place Links to Shakespeare and his world
  • Shakespeare's Links
  • Macbeth--Signet Classics Reading Guide
  • The Blake Web -   this quintessential scholarly site includes paintings, illuminations, a biography, and the bard's complete poetry, with annotations.
  • John Milton (1608-1674) - Luminarium introduces modern students to writers of past centuries in ways which give them a new sense of life, color, and humanity. Meet Milton in the biography, browse his quotes, and dabble in through some essays. Before the student tackles the meatier stuff that is here too, Milton's caution will have been heeded: "Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."
  • Nineteenth Century American Authors Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman.
  • Louis L'Amour -- unofficial site -American Western Story teller awarded with the Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Freedom
  • Robert Burns
  • Dylan Marlais Thomas - Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry Eighteen poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play for voices.
  • Jane Austen's Writings - rich depositories of related commentary, like the annotated and illustrated HTML hypertext of Pride and Prejudice. There are genealogical charts for the characters in novels.  The contemporary drawings by Charles E. Brock of Austen's characters and scenes from her novels help us revisit the romantic era she captured, and undoubtedly to see at first hand images which initiated visual ideas we have enjoyed in recent movies.  The Jane Austen Society of North America is here too, including their early word of conferences to come, like ?Northanger Abby, Gothic and More, in Quebec city, October 9-11, 1998.
  • Bartleby's Great Books On Line
  • Jónas Hallgrímsson: Selected Poetry and Prose - The art of this Icelandic poet and naturalist surfaced on the Internet on 16 November 1997, the 190th anniversary of his birth.  Formal features of the poetry, texts and commentaries, a biographic sketch, and a bibliography are all provided. The Jónas Tour is an interactive map of Iceland with locations that can be clicked which are intimately connected with poems -- like Horn Crag, Drangey, Steeple Rock, Sheepfold Tarn, and Dingvellir.  A page for each of these has  a photograph from the locale and an annotated poem.
  • Louisa May Alcott - Little Women.
  • Julia Alvarez - Bio & Bibliography.
  • Maya Angelou --another site
  • Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice.
  • Aphra Behn - The Rover.
  • Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights.
  • Ana Castillo - Life & Overview.
  • Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
  • Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
  • Conway, Jill Ker: Life & Overview.
  • Byers, Betsy.
  • Cleary, Beverly
  • Voices From the Gaps, an instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.