Additional Online Literature Resources
- Chronique Anonyme Universelle“Genealogy of the Bible,” a 35-foot scroll and manuscript dating from approximately 1470-1479 that depicts the history of the world from Creation to 1380. It traces the genealogy of individuals from the Bible to the royal houses of France and England, while weaving in biblical stories alongside Roman and Greek history.
- Classics Archive (MIT)Classical literature, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
- DanteworldsA multimedia Web site combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy.
- Dartmouth Dante ProjectA searchable full-text database of commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy.
- The Digital ScriptoriumA growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
- electronic book reviewElectronic Book Review (ebr) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. ebr threads include essays addressing a wide range of topics across the arts, sciences, and humanities. Our editors are particularly interested in critically savvy, in-depth work addressing the digital future of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts.
- Encyclopedia MythicaOnline encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
- International Children's Digital LibraryRead children books online from around the world.
- Labyrinth: Medieval ResourcesLinks to databases, services, texts, and images from around the world. Includes links to primary sources.
- Literature of the HolocaustLinks to sites on Holocaust Literature. Compiled by a University of Pennsylvania English professor.
- Oxford English Dictionary"The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world."
- Paris Review Interviews with WritersText of interviews with writers from 1950s through 2000s.
- Perseus Digital Library (Tufts)Digital collections include: Greek and Roman Materials, 19th-Century American, Renaissance Materials, and the Richmond Times Dispatch
- Poetry ArchiveOnline collection of recordings of poets reading their work.
- Poetry FoundationPublisher of Poetry magazine. Resources on and for poets.
- Women WritersWomen writers throughout history and from around the world.
