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About.com Literature & poetry  links with email assistance for questions  

All-in-one by Prof. Jack Lynch of Rutgers.    Excellent links to the following  maintained by  J. Lynch     http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

• Classical & Biblical
• Medieval
• Renaissance
• Eighteenth-Century 
• Romantic
• Victorian British
• Twentieth-Century British & Irish
• American
• Theatre and Drama
• Theory
• Women's Literature & Feminism
• Ethnicities & Nationalities
• Other National Literatures

American Literature  Links to full e-texts and criticism  - Excellent
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.html

American Literature - - texts, biographies, essays,  a great  Glossary with links to the following & more

1. Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
2. Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
3. The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets
4. The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction
5. The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
6. Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
7. American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition
8. American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation
9. Authors          http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm

Author Search - Alphabetical link to authors - from Google directory http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/

Bartleby - EXCELLENT -an electronic archive of texts no longer covered by copyright. Search  numerous texts  (quotations, Shakespeare, authors, verse...) by keyword   http://www.bartleby.com/

Bedford Books:  Links to over 500 professionally maintained sites which helps students browse with direction, whether they're looking for a favorite text, additional biographical information about an author, critical articles, or conversation with other students and scholars.  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/

Call For Papers - maintained by UPenn  http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/

Conferences in arts & Humanities - arranged chronologically   http://www.niss.ac.uk/cr/events/artsevent.html

Cybereditions:  philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art trends, breakthrough - a fun page , updated daily, for  newspaper links, article highlights, new books essays.... Check it out. http://www.aldaily.com/

English Literature Period - an award-winning site.   One of my favorites.  Each page is a delight.  I highly recommend visiting it just for the fun of it! http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

Grammar Gym Fun grammar exercises

Great books online - texts can be searched by key word
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

Index of Teaching Material - arranged by author

Internet Public Library  - excellent literary criticism- critiques over 2500 writers http://www.ipl.org            Direct Lit crit link 

Literary Criticism: hylerlinked lexicon & glossary of the humanities - major terms in literary criticism  http://www.sil.org/humanities/

Literary Criticism links from Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm

Literature/English links from BJ  http://www.bjpinchbeck.com/frameenglish.htm

Literature Links from About.Com - info on authors, freelance writing, sci-fi.....  http://home.about.com/arts/index.htm

MobyDicks: get linked up to literary cafes, campfire chat forums, and poems of the day.  <http://mobydicks.com/lecture/GeorgeEliothall/messages/91.html>

Mythology:  Greek Myth Links       Excellent page! http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/

PinkMonkey.com  - "Cliff Notes"  on numerous literary works http://www.pinkmonkey.com

Poetry.Com -- enter your poetry  & win $10,000 - publish your poetry on the Web  http://poetry.com/              

 Poetry links  by About.Com - poetry forums, poetry chats, &   links to the following:
Classical Poets
Medieval Poets
Renaissance Poets
17th Century Poets
18th Century Poets
19th Century Poets
20th Century Poets, A-H
20th Century Poets, I-Q
20th Century Poets, R-Z
Audio Poetry Archives
Calendars & Local Organizations
Childrens' Poetry & Nursery Rhymes
Festivals & Live Poetry Events
Haiku/Senryu/Tanka
Multilingual Poetry & Translations
Online Poetry Contests
Online Workshops & BBSs
National Poetry Month
Pantoums
Poetry Newsletters & Listservs
Poetry References & Resources
Poetry Shows & Video Archives
Publishers & Online Catalogs
Reviews & Writings On Poetry
Sonnets
Word Games & Collaborations
Zines & Anthologies, A-H
Zines & Anthologies, I-Q
Zines & Anthologies, R-Z    
http://poetry.about.com/mbody.htm?PM=59_0101_T

Red Hat Poem  http://www.wheniamanoldwoman.com/

Renaissance Links - excellent
http://www.renaissance.dm.net/sites.html.

Rhetoric - AmericanRhetoric.com - repository of audio and text of speeches  - includes 200 short audio clips illustrating rhetorical devices http://americanrhetoric.com/

Shakespeare  complete  - includes Shakespearean quotes, Shakespeare resources...  award-winning site.   http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html    

Shakespeare - 
Excellent background info & some texts  http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/index.html

Sparknotes.com - "Cliffnotes" from Harvard  students & graduates- check it out - good supplemental reading  http://www.sparknotes.com/

Toth, David - visit one of our professors' (Three Rivers) pages
http://www.geocities.com/davidjohntoth/

Transcendental Web Page  http://www.transcendentalists.com/

Victorian, Edwardian, feminist literature & more  http://www.jlbartlett.com

The Voice of the Shuttle:   Countless humanities links. I highly recommend it   EXCELLENT http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

Wayward Intellectual -  - Created by a Berkeley instructor for her lit and composition students http://www.waywardintellectuals.com/

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Western Ct. St. Univ literature & language links
http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/h_literature_languages.html

                           Why did children's book author Theodor Geisel change his name to Dr. Seuss?   
Well he couldn't call himself Dr. Spock, for obvious reasons. Nobody would believe he was Dr. Louis Pasteur. Nurse Seuss didn't quite do it. And Dr. Zeus sounded a bit presumptuous.

Believe it or not, the widely beloved children's book author needed a quick name change because of some illicit booze he was caught with doing Prohibition. He was at Dartmouth and editor of the school's humor magazine when a room check turned up a bottle of gin in his quarters. The Grinch in charge of the place decreed that he be booted from the magazine as punishment for imbibing.

Outwitting the authorities, the young man took his middle name, Seuss, as his last name and stayed on the publication. In later life he promoted himself to "Dr.," a title that Dartmouth confirmed on him officially with an honorary doctorate in 1957. I hope they returned his gin.

Source: JUST CURIOUS JEEVES by Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett