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English literature to 1800

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Anthology of Middle English Literature: Resources relating to Middle English literature from the period 1350 to 1485, covering writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory. Includes full text versions of their work, a selection of medieval plays and lyrics, and a collection of critical articles and essays.
Author: Jokinen, Anniina
Subjects: english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 820.2
Resource type: document collection
Blake Digital Text Project: Full text of the Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V Erdman, and Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, with stanza annotations. A slide show of selected poetry and illustrations by Blake is included.
Author: Blake, William; Erdman, David V., & the University of Georgia Department of English
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 821
Resource type: bibliography
Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Collection of Old English poetry, prayers and songs, including texts from the Exeter Book, the Battle of Maldon and Dream of the Rood.
Author: Macrae-Gibson, O. D.
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 829
Resource type: poems
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe: Full text of the classic novel Robinson Crusoe by English author Daniel Defoe (1660-1731).
Author: Defoe, Daniel
Subjects: english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 823.4
Resource type: fiction ebook
Dream of the Rood: Examines the Vercelli Book from The Dream of the Rood, widely believed to be the earliest dream-vision poem in the English language. The Vercelli Book is the most complete existing form of the poem, a manuscript of Old English prose and poetry assigned to the later half of the tenth century. The original manuscript can be viewed here, as well as a translated version with a glossary.
Author: Rambaran-Olm, Mary
Subjects: english language, english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 829.1
Resource type: book, documents
Electronic Beowulf: Project for the digital preservation, restoration, and dissemination of medieval manuscripts. Includes images of Cotton Vitellius A. XV, indispensable eighteenth-century transcriptions, copies of the 1815 first edition with early nineteenth-century collations of the manuscript, and a comprehensive glossarial index.
Author: University of Kentucky Lexington
Subjects: english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 829.3
Resource type: documents, images
Geoffrey Chaucer: Range of texts and translations of material relevant to Chaucer's works. Provides a chronology of Chaucer and his times, a glossorial database of Middle English, discussion of the language and linguistics of the era, annotated extracts from the Canterbury Tales including original illustrations, and general information on life in the Middle Ages, covering courtly love, pilgrimages, tournaments, and meals.
Author: Harvard University English Department
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry, text collections
DeweyClass: 821.1
Resource type: documents
Gulliver's Travels: Full text of the novel Gulliver's Travels by Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Subjects: english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 823.5
Resource type: fiction ebook
John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress: Full text of Pilgrims' Progress by John Bunyan (1628-1688), who wrote the novel while imprisoned for preaching non-conformist views about Christianity in the 1600s.
Author: Bunyan, John
Subjects: english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 823.4
Resource type: fiction ebook
Labyrinth: Old English Literature: Collection of old English poetry, prose, runic and liturgical texts. Also includes a bibliography of reference works and a Modern English to Old English Vocabulary.
Author: Georgetown University
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry, text collections
DeweyClass: 829
Resource type: documents, non-fiction ebooks, poems
Life and Literature of John Milton: Provides links to the full text of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and to minor poems and prose. Includes links to images of illustrations and title pages, audio recordings of selected poems, and the full text of articles about the poet. A forum for the discussion of Milton's life and literature is provided.
Author: Milton, John
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 821
Resource type: articles, forum, images, poems
Old English Pages: Set of annotated links to texts, manuscript images, historical resources, courses and other educational resources relevant to Old English literature.
Author: Ball, Cathy
Subjects: english literature to 1800, medieval history
DeweyClass: 829
Resource type: index
Online Medieval and Classical Library: Texts and translations of a collection of literary works of Classical and Medieval civilisation. Provides a facility for downloading texts, and allows Boolean searching.
Author: Killings, Douglas B.
Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, european literature, greek literature, iceland, latin, text collections
DeweyClass: 427.02
Resource type: documents, poems
Peter Farey's Marlowe Page: The Works of Christopher Marlowe: Corpus of Marlowe's works; the plays, poems (including Hero and Leander and The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) his translations of Ovid and Lucan, a dedicatory epistle to Mary, the Countess of Pembroke, and the epitaph of Sir Roger Manwood. Enables users to lay different editions of some of his plays side-by-side to compare textual variants. All have been translated into modern spelling with each text available as a single file. Also includes links to other online resources, some scholarly articles and criticism.
Author: Farey, Peter
Subjects: english drama, english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 822
Resource type: document collection, poems
Poetry of Edmund Spenser: Full text of the poetry of Edmund Spenser, including Complaints, The Fowre Hymnes, and various sonnets. Provides discussion forums on non-dramatic literature of the Elizabethan age, and how best to develop online editions of Spenser's work. Links to related resources, and to a searchable database of the Faerie Queene are included.
Author: Spenser, Edmund & Bear, Richard
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 821
Resource type: articles, forum, poems
Renaissance: A variety of resources relating to the study and research of Tudor England. Topics include heraldry, maps, costume, music, and literature, including much material dedicated to the works of Shakespeare. Transcriptions of the trials of the Earls of Sussex and Southampton for treason in 1601 are also available.
Author: Marmor, Paula Kate
Subjects: english literature to 1800, renaissance history
DeweyClass: 942.05
Resource type: documents, images
Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English 1477-1799: Texts of selected works printed in English between 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799. Authors include Francis Bacon, Thomas Campion, John Milton, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Laurence Sterne.
Author: Bear, Richard
Subjects: english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 820
Resource type: documents
Richard III and Yorkist History Server: Includes full text and extracts of fifteenth - nineteenth century sources about Richard III (1452-1485); a hypertext edition of Shakespeare's play; essays on Richard III in history, drama, and literature, and resources for teaching.
Author: Richard III Society American Branch
Subjects: british history 1100-1800, english drama, english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 942
Resource type: books, documents, essays, guides
Romantic Circles: Extensive resources devoted to the art, history, literature and culture of the Romantic period. Contains searchable electronic text editions, scholarly resources, conference information, research features and book reviews.
Author: University of Maryland
Subjects: british history 1100-1800, english literature to 1800, history of art
DeweyClass: 700.4145
Resource type: documents
Samuel Johnson: Full text of Johnson's poems, political writings and essays, including Rasselas, The Life of Pope and Selected Opinions. Biographical and critical works about the writer are also provided, including part of Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Author: Johnson, Samuel & Lynch, Jack
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 821
Resource type: documents, poems
Shakespeare Quartos Archive: The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. It currently holds a complete digitised collection of rare early editions of Hamlet, where all 32 existing quarto copies of the play, collected from UK and US institutions, are freely available to view. The initiative is jointly led by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, funded by JISC (UK) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (US). The texts have been sourced from the British Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the University of Edinburgh Library, in addition to the Bodleian Library.
Author: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Subjects: english drama, english literature to 1800
DeweyClass: 822.33
Resource type: book collection
Teams Middle English Texts: Collection of more than one hundred middle English texts online. Includes King Arthur and King Cornwall, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, The Ploughman's Tale, Lancelot of the Laik, and a collection of Robin Hood tales.
Author: Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, folklore, text collections
DeweyClass: 427.02
Resource type: non-fiction ebooks
Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact: Document discussing the differences in verb movement syntax between the northern and southern dialects of Middle English. It is proposed that this difference is due to the imperfect learning of Old English by Scandinavian invaders.
Author: Kroch, Anthony & Taylor, Ann
Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, linguistics
DeweyClass: 429
Resource type: document
Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Selection of works by medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), including Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Book of the Duchesse, and the full text of his most famous work, Canterbury Tales.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry
DeweyClass: 821.1
Resource type: poems