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18th Century Literature Encyclopaedias Epic poetry
Etymology

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Ebooks, electronic publishing
See: Ebooks, Etexts

Eighteenth Century literature resources
British Poetry 1780-1910:
a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Electronic Text Center, U. Virginia).
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Eighteenth-Century Resources, Literature.
This page, edited by Jack Lynch of Rutgers, Newark, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net.
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18th Century novel

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A list of novels set in the eighteenth century: England and the British Isles, Continental Europe and America.
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He brought the same diversity of enthusiasms into play in writing his novels.

Eighteenth-Century Studies (EServer)
This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
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Restoration & 18th Century, English Literature by Period.
Voice of the Shuttle. A web directory of 18th Century literary resources.
Encyclopaedias . Literature encyclopedias . See also: Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias
Answers.com
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
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Encyclopaedia BRITANNICA. Britannica.com
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Encyclopedias on the Web
A web directory from The Open Directory Project...
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Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia
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The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary
The aim of The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary is to provide profiles of the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language, and other prominent figures such as philosophers and musicians whose lives and works are of interest to the literary reader. 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.


Epic poetry, narrative poems

The Aeneid
Aeneid, translation by John Dryden.
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The Aeneid, by Virgil. Internet resources.
The Divine Comedy

The Classic Text: Dante Alighieri
Online version of exhibition at the University of Western Michigan. Include reproductions of illustrations of Dante's work from different printed editions throughout history.
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The Divine Comedy,
by Dante Alighieri. Internet resources.
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ClassicNotes: The Inferno
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A Commentary on the Divine Comedy.
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The Complete Divine Comedy of Dante.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation of Dante Alighieri's classic.

 Epic of Gilgamesh

Epic of Gilgamesh,
internet resources.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The text as translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs.
Epic of Gilgamesh Theatre Production
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Gilgamesh
The complete text by tablet.
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Gilgamesh - In Search of Immortality
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Greece. Terms from Greek literature.
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Epic and Narrative Poetry
Open Directory links to websites.
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The Epic of Kings, Ferdowsi. Iran
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Hyperbos. Epic literature on the internet.
Pre- classical, women's epic, non-western epic, American epic, Medieval epic, Renaissance epic, Romantic epic, Victorian Epic, modern epic.
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Illiad

Homer's Iliad
Translated by Samuel Butler.
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The Iliad (a map)
Image of the geography of The Iliad.
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The Iliad by Homer
Searchable HTML version indexed by book, without attribution.
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The Iliad of Homer
Complete chapter indexed hypertext of Butler's translation, rendered into English prose.
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The Odyssey

The Odyssey,  by Homer.
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The Odyssey, etext in English.
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The Odyssey
Prose translation by Andrew Lang.
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The Odyssey
Loeb's English translation.
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The Odyssey
The illustrated wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the Trojan War.
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The Odyssey
Text-only version of Samuel Butler's translation, provided by the Internet Classics Archive at MIT.
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The Odyssey
Downloadable E-book (PDF format) of translation and commentary by Ian Johnston.
Paradise Lost

ClassicNotes: Paradise Lost
Full summary and analysis of Milton's Paradise Lost written by Harvard students.
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Milton: Paradise Lost and Regained
Full text of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
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Paradise Lost
Believed to be the earliest e-text. Was originally put in computer format in 1964-1965.
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Paradise Lost
Completely indexed hypertext.
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Paradise Lost
Project Gutenberg.
Rama and Ramayana epics. Ancient India
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Sumerian epic literature.  The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Wikipedia entry on epic poetry.

E-text databases

E-Texts. Worldwide Literature databases.
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Etexts. A comprehensive directory of literature etexts from The Open Directory Project.
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Poetry etexts.
Open Directory Project web directory.
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Poetry etexts.
Bibliomania Poetry Archive
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Poetry etexts.
Anthology of Poetry

Literary etext databases

Bartleby.com
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Bibliomania
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Internet Public Library
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg has many thousands of free ebooks for Kindle, Android, iPad and iPhone. Available also in text, HTML and PDF.
Etymology
Etymology, History of the English Language. An etymology homepage by Dave Wilton.
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Take our Word for it. A Weekly Etymology Webzine.
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Wikipedia entry on Etymology.
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World Wide Words. Investigating international English from a British standpoint. Topical words, turns of phrase.