| General Links | |||||||||||||||||||
| Crosswalk.com - a Christian website that provides searchable texts/concordances of the Bible--useful for looking up obscure biblical references by some author or another. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Forest of Rhetoric - a website providing a means to understanding the art of rhetoric as understood and practiced from classical "antiquity" to the Renaissance; it has definitions of classical rhetorical terms, and a great deal of instruction in the employment of rhetoric. | |||||||||||||||||||
| - a collection of Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century texts--many | |||||||||||||||||||
| famous, and some obscure authors--including Chaucer and Gower, Shakespeare, Thomas More, Southwell, Campion, George Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Lancelot Andrewes.... | |||||||||||||||||||
| Perseus Digital Library - large collection of texts, art & architecture from the Greek and Roman classical periods on up to the English Renaissance (there are Greek & Latin texts, translations in English, and regular English texts). | |||||||||||||||||||
| Project Canterbury - a collection of e-texts relevant to Anglican Church history, it includes documents produced by the Oxford Movement (e.g. work by Cardinal John Newman [listed as "J. H. Newman" on the site]), and sermons of Lancelot Andrewes (which would be of use to T. S. Eliot fans). | |||||||||||||||||||
| Project Gutenberg - a very large, free-access, multi-lingual collection of books (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, history, etc.) in electronic form. The texts can be hard to read, though, for they have only a minimum of formatting. | |||||||||||||||||||
| English Prose Drama Database - website's own description: "contains [the texts of] more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas." The database offers multiple search methods. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Databases and Electronic Resources at the Library of Congress (literature and language) - selected literature & language databases, and other electronic resources, provided by the LoC. **Note: not all of the links are public-access, but many of them are. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typing Diacritics and Accents - a list of keyboard shortcuts to help those of us who find ourselves using diacritics and accents frequently. Provided by the Colby College Language Resource Center. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) -- Projects - University of Virginia Website with some very interesting -- and in some cases very eclectic -- research projects and documents published online. Many of the projects are incomplete, but they are all promising, and very much worth a look for those who are considering similar projects. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bulfinch's Mythology Online - the text of Bulfinch's Mythology presented in online HTML (hypercard??) format. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Anthology of Spanish Poetry - "A collection of spanish poems selected by Fred F. Jehle." | |||||||||||||||||||
| Franz Kafka's short story, "In the Penal Colony" (In der Strafkolonie) - [in German] transcribed, and website maintained by Jurgen Braungardt. Mr. Braungardt also has transcribed a number of other works in German, including a few other works by Kafka. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ranier Maria Rilke - his poetry [in German] and prose. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Representative Poetry Online - online anthology of poetry, maintained by the University of Toronto. | |||||||||||||||||||