English Subject Guide

Websites

Authors

Lannan Foundation Audio Archives
http://www.lannan.org/lf/audio/
Streaming audio of interviews with contemporary authors.

Literary Resources and Texts

Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/
Searchable access to full-text works available on the Web.

Texts by Women Writers
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Women-Writers.html
From the Modern English Collection at the University of Virginia.

Poetry

The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
Information on, and poetry by, specific poets.

The American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
A searchable archive of American poetry to 1920.

BartlebyVerse: American and English Poetry, 1250-1920
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
Searchable full-text to most major poetry from this period. Includes indexes by author and a chronologic index.

The Poetry Archives @emule
http://www.emule.com/poetry/
A searchable archive of mostly pre-1900 poetry.

The Poetry Resource
http://www.pmpoetry.com/
This directory includes hundreds of annotated links, and features an index of poets.

The Poetry Searcher
http://www.glaced.digitalspace.net/
A searchable archive of worldwide poetry from ancient times to the 19th century.

Yahoo's General Poetry Links
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/
Annotated links to thousand of poetry web sites, annotated and categorized.

Writing

Writing.com
http://www.writing.com/
An excellent resource for aspiring writers. It includes advice from published writers, answers to frequently asked questions, markets for your writing (both in print and on the internet), and a forum for publishing your writing and having it critiqued.

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Internet TESL Journal
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/
Ideas and links for ESL teachers.