Books, Literature, Poetry

General

Alliance of Literary Societies
Listing of literary societies in the UK and Ireland
http://www.allianceofliterarysocieties.org.uk/

American and English Literature Internet Resources
Useful and comprehensive gateway site for English literature sites
http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/ litbib.html

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Access all 18 volumes of the first edition published between 1907 and 1921
http://www.bartleby.com/ cambridge

Chawton House Library
Women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830. Site includes biographies of women writers and full-text transcripts of some of the library's rarest novels
http://www.chawton.org/ library/ index.html

Enotes - Literature
Free content includes critical essays; biographies of writers of feminist and Gothic literature; full text of many classics, including Shakespeare's works; and a 'calendar of literary facts' with more than 6500 events in literary history. You can search the calendar by year or by keyword or to see what happened on a particular day
http://lit.enotes.com/

Google Directory - Literature
Categorised links
http://directory.google.com/ Top/ Arts/ Literature/

Intute - Humanities
Search results give annotated links selected by subject specialists
http://www.intute.ac.uk/ humanities/

London Review of Books
Selected content from this literary magazine is free online
http://www.lrb.co.uk

Richmond Review
Online magazine with short stories, poetry and essays and features
http://www.richmondreview.co.uk

Voice of the Shuttle
Broad coverage of literature (authors, works and genres), written both in English and in other languages from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Select 'Literature (in English)' or 'Literatures (other than English)'
http://vos.ucsb.edu/ index.asp

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