The Poetry ArchiveA premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.
Listen here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary
English-language poets and of poets from the past.
B
Beowulf on Steorarume
(Beowulf in Cyberspace)
An online edition of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem 'Beowulf', with original
Old English text, modern English & German translations, notes,
glossary,
artwork and more based on an examination of the original MS, with
supplementary
texts including The Fight at Finnsburh, Waldere, Deor, Woden's Nine
Herbs
Charm, Bede's Account of Cædmon. By Benjamin Slade.
Blogs
Brit Lit Blogs is the
brainchild of six British literary bloggers. Each working hard at
bringing readers to forgotten or overlooked books, BritLitBloggers
decided that combining their latest blog entries together in one place
would highlight the breadth and depth of British literary blogging.
Literary blogs
The Bloomsbury Group
The
Bloomsbury Group. Resources on the internet.
The
Bloomsbury Group,
a web directory from The Open Directory Project.
Woolf,
Virginia
Booker
Prize
Shortlisted and Prize Winners. An alphabetical and chronological
directory.
British
literature, Wikipedia entry.
C
The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
An Encyclopedia in
Eighteen Volumes.
Contemporary
Poetry Review. UK,
British poets, contemporary British poetry, English
poetry news, British poetry articles.
Contemporary
Writers
A searchable database containing up-to-date profiles of some of the UK
and Commonwealth's most important living writers - biographies,
bibliographies,
critical reviews, prizes and photographs. Searchable by author, genre,
nationality, gender, publisher, book title, date of publication and
prize
name and date.
E
Early English
Books Online
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the
age
of Spenser and Shakespeare. Early English books published between 1473
and 1700. Digital images for nearly 125,000 works,distributed under the
title Early English Books Online.
Elizabethan
drama
Elizabethan
drama, a web directory.
Open Directory Project
Elizabethan
Playhouses, Actors and Audiences
16th Century Theatre Database
An archive of articles on sixteenth century theatre.
Ancient Rome and English Renaissance Theatre
The relationship between the
design of performance arenas in Elizabethan England and those of
Ancient Rome.
Elizabethan literature Wikipedia entry.
Elizabethan literature
Literature produced during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. TalkTalk
SparkNotes: Elizabethan Literature
A summary of Elizabethan Literature.
The Elizabethan Period
A History of English Literature
English
Literature and Religion
English
Server Collection
This site offers works of and about fiction collected from its members,
contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.
The Literary
Encyclopedia and Literary
Dictionary
The site is written and owned by a global network of scholars
and researchers (currently some 670 and rising steadily), all
specialists
who really know and indeed love their material.
L
Live texts
databases and libraries
Eserver.org
Poetry, original and classic
verse, literary and poetic theory. Sparks, a publisher of fiction,
poetry,
music, art and spoken word. Includes a variety of literature-related
materials,
including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction and criticism.
Live
Texts Database Classic texts (Oxford University Text Archive).
Quick search
texts downloads.
Modern
English Collection (Electronic Text Center)
This heterogeneous collection
contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers,
manuscripts
and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by
author's
last name or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in SGML or
XML
and includes a bibliographic header with details about the creation of
the electronic text and its print source. University of Virginia
M
Medieval
Literature
Middle English Literature, an Anthology.
The
Modern Word
A reference site for modern literature.
N
Norton Anthology of English Literature
Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors,
this extensive, freely accessible Web resource
for The
Norton Anthology of English Literature offers
twenty-seven topics for
study and discussion.
P
Periods; Literary
periods
Renaissance,
sixteenth century literature.
Luminarium. Internet resources, essays, etexts, etc.
Renaissance
and 16th Century Litertaure
A web directory from Voice of the Shuttle.
Sixteenth
Century British authors.
Open Directory Project
Seventeenth
century literature.
Luminarium. Internet resources, essays, etexts, etc.
Seventeenth
Century British authors.
Open Directory Project
Eighteenth
Century British authors.
Open Directory Project
Eighteenth
Century Literature
Wikipedia entry.
Nineteenth
Century British authors.
Open Directory Project
Twentieth
Century British authors.
Open Directory Project
British
poetry since 1945.
See also: Theatre
Wikipedia
entries on English playwrights and dramatists.
Poetry; British
poetry
See also: Poetry
Contemporary
Poetry Review. UK,
British poets, contemporary British poetry, English
poetry news, British poetry articles.
Poetry
Library of the South Bank/Royal Festival Hall, London.
Oxford
Book of English Verse
Liverpool poets
Metaphysical poets
Poets.
British poets web directory. The Open Directory Project
Poets read their own work.
Video and audio recordings from the BBC.
The Poetry Archive
a premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.
Listen here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary
English-language poets and of poets from the past.
Poetry
Library of the South Bank/Royal Festival Hall, London.
Oxford
Book of English Verse
Oxford Poetry Professorship. Professor of Poetry Election
Oxford Professors of Poetry
Poetry
Book Society UK.
Information on English language poetry and poets in the
U.K. T S Eliot founded the Poetry Book Society in 1953 in order to
promote
a love and understanding of contemporary poetry.
Poetry Olympics
Wikipedia
entries on British poets.
Postmodern
literature. Wikipedia entry.
R
Renaissance English literature
See also: Renaissance
Literature
British
Renaissance drama.
Open Directory Project
Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Robin
Hood Project, University of Rochester.
A database of texts, images, bibliographies,
and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw
tales.
Romanticism
See
also: Romantic Literature
British
romantic poets, a web directory.
Open Directory Project
The Royal Society of Literature
The aim of the Royal Society of Literature is to nurture, celebrate and
defend Britain's outstanding tradition of writing. To this end it
organises public lectures and debates, makes awards to new and
established writers, and campaigns for the encouragement and
appreciation of authors.
Schools, courses and workshops
Anne Aylor's Creative Writing Workshops
Short courses in creative writing run at various locations around the UK.
Arvon Foundation
With four centres in the UK, runs a wide range of residential creative writing courses.
BBC - The Writers Room
Read
a first draft of a script, browse through some notes, watch the writers
working at their virtual table, or read transcripts from the chat rooms.
Bomberg Writing
Tutoring, mentoring and workshops in creative writing.
Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of York
Offers open access creative writing courses to the local community.
London School of Journalism
Has creative writing courses.
London Writers' Cafe
We're an informal group who meet once a month to read out our work to get feedback and inspiration.
London Writing Workshops
Intensive and inspiring short creative writing courses suitable for all levels of experience.
ShawGuides: Writers Conferences & Workshops
ShawGuides: Comprehensive worldwide guides to educational travel and creative career programs.
U.K. creative writing schools and workshops.
A website list from The British Council.
Writers Online Workshops
From Writer's Digest, offering Iinteractive, instructor-led online
creative writing courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir
writing.
Writing School Leicester
Writing School Leicester is a specialist creative writing school taught by practising writers and journalists.
Seventeenth Century English Literature (1603-1660). Luminarium
T
T.
S. Eliot Prize for Literature
The Times
Literary Supplement
V
Victorian British
literature
Victorian
British writers.
Open Directory Project
Victorian
Web
Victorian aesthetes, decadents, Victorian culture.
Visual
Poetry, Contemporary Poets, Hypertext Poetry.
W
Wikipedia
entry on English literature.
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