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Complete Works of Shakespeare
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Cyberpunk Library
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/

Classics and essentials from this science fiction genre.

DNA of Literature (Paris Review)
http://www.parisreview.org/literature.php/prmAlpha/A-E/

In-depth interviews with poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics, musicians, and more, whose work set the compass of twentieth-century writing, and continue to do so into the twenty-first.

Electronic Literature Foundation
http://elf.chaoscafe.com/

Great works from Austen to Voltaire. ELF offers a wonderful bookmark feature, great for researchers comparing text.

Geoffrey Chaucer
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

Chaucer's works, plus information on Middle English and translations.

Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Look for literary criticism of authors, works, or time periods.

Internet Public Library - Native American Authors
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/

Look up Native American Authors by name, works, and tribe.

Lannan Foundation Audio Archives
http://www.lannan.org/lf/audio/

Readings and interviews with dozens of authors and writers.

Library Spot: Literary Criticsm
http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm

Literary Gothic
http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html

Biographies, bibliographies, criticism, links, etc., for authors of the supernatural ranging from Edgar Allen Poe to Shakespeare (mainly pre-1950 authors). Includes links to full e-texts of both original works as well as criticism.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit

This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.

The Literature Network
http://www.online-literature.com/

Features searchable online literature including author index, 1200 full-text books, 2000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotation database has over 8500 quotes.

Poetry Portal
http://www.poetry-portal.com/index.html

Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/indexpoet.cfm

Full text of poems from over 400 poets, including those working today.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Database
http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/lit/science/sci-fi/index.html

An online index to historical and critical items of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Web site for humanities research, including literature, anthropology, religion, etc.

The William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/main.html

Look at Blake's works the way they were meant to be seen: with the images he painted!

Updated 6/10/2008
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