English Junior Tutorial and Senior Thesis Library Guide

12. Web Sites of Interest for Literary Studies

The first two sites will lead you to others of interest, by searching for authors, periods, genres, movements, etc. The third is a full text collection of standard reference books and texts. The fourth, a resource for the practice, teaching and study of poetry is under development, and currently available to Harvard affiliates only.

Voice of the Shuttle (VoS)

A very useful meta-guide to and collection of online resources across the humanities disciplines, from UCSB..

Literary Resources on the Net

A long-lived site, from Rutgers University, with well organized links to a broad array of scholarly web pages from around the world.

Bartleby

A collection of literary and other texts, reference tools (including Rogets Thesaurus, Columbia Encyclopedia, Strunk's Elements of Style, and others), the Harvard Classics: the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction, Verse, Fiction, and Non-fiction sections. There is advertising on the site, but the content is very useful.

poetry@harvard

The beta version of poetry@harvard is a resource for Harvard students and instructors, supporting the practice, study, and teaching of poetry at the University.  It aims to create a portal to Harvard's varied collections, publications, and organizations, to provide curricular resources, and to serve as a venue for collaboration.

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