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Librarians' and Tutors' Choices for English

About.com Guide to English Literature
Bartleby Library - Great books and familiar quotations online.
BBC History: World War One - Useful background material for WW1 poets.
Bibliomania - Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts.
BITESIZE for English - GCSE BITESIZE revision from BBC Learning.
BITESIZE for English - Macbeth
Britannica.com - major encyclopedia, good source of information on writers.
Donne - John Donne (1572-1631) - Complete works, critical essays, biography and more.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes available online more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700.
The Tragedy of Hamlet - Full text of the play.
Internet Poetry Archive
Literary Resources on the Net
Marlow - The Complete Works of Christopher Marlow
On-line English grammar
Online Poetry Classroom - includes find a poem, find a poet and workshops.
Poets.org - currently features biographies of more than 500 poets.
Poetry Archives.
RhymeZone - find rhymes, synonyms, and more.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Shakespeare: Complete Works
Shakespeare search - search for words, keywords or phrases in all of Shakespeare's plays.
SparkNotes - Literature Study Guides.
Today in Literature - a calendar of engaging stories about the great books, writers, and events in literary history.
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
Visual Thesaurus - Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture.
William Blake Archive, The
Phonetics Focus - Cambridge English Online - wide range of fun resources specially designed to help you with your pronunciation and knowledge of phonetics.

Links checked 31-03-09

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