200 Links

There is so much information available on the net, it is sometimes difficult to find reliable information for research.  Below are some of the more better pages for relevant authors that I have found to date. Notice that not every site linked here is necessarily scholarly enough to use in a paper. Apply the normal standards.

At present, there are some fifty links here, but this is a work in progress; the goal is, well, two hundred. If you find a page that you think deserves a link on this page, let me know.

Specific Authors or Texts General Sites
Samuel Beckett Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, for the worst possible first lines of a novel
Beowulf Epitaph Browser
Thomas Browne Governor General's Literary Awards
Robert Browning Norton Topics Online
Geoffrey Chaucer Nobel Prize for Literature, have you got yours yet?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsmith.org, for lovers of language
Robertson Davies The Wordspy, "devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases."
John Donne
T.S. Eliot Glossaries of literary terms
Nadine Gordimer Bob's Byway
Thomas Gray Silva rhetoricae
Seamus Heaney
Samuel Johnson Literary Forms
   Lynch's Johnson Page Villanelle Central
   Lives of the English Poets
Christopher Marlowe Writing Links
John Milton

Milton-L Page

  Paradise Lost Study Guide

Dr. Pettigrew's Writing Page
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The Drama of Shakespeare's England
Dorothy Parker
Edgar Allan Poe Elsewhere at CBU
Alexander Pope Dr. Silverberg's Page
Adrienne Rich
Theodore Roethke Literate Diversions
William Shakespeare 

   Shakespeare and the Internet

   Shakespeare Insults

The Straight Dope, "fighting ignorance since 1973" (apparently, they say, it's taking longer than they thought it would); special bonus: this question posed by Dr. Pettigrew himself.
Mary Shelley The Watley Review, "dedicated to the production of articles completely without journalistic merit or factual basis." Hilarious.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Words, Woe and Wonder. Blair Shewchuck's commentary on the CBC's use of the English language. Witty, informed, and thoughtful.
Edmund Spenser
Robert Louis Stevenson

  The Stevenson Web Site (Ed. Richard Dury)

  Online Stevenson Exhibit (National Library of Scotland)

Jonathan Swift
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
The York Plays