Literature
The American Verse Project From the Humanities Text Initiative at Michigan, this project is digitizing American poetry published in books and periodicals before 1920. You can search in a number of different ways.
The Bartleby Project A compilation of eclectic titles in Anglo-American literature, with attention paid to accuracy, edition, & usefulness. These are not just "classics" but other important or useful texts as well, such as Fowler's English usage, with some interesting exceptions.
Banned Books On-line From Carnegie Mellon University, a special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts, from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood.
A Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse The original large text database in this country, from Michigan.
The Electronic Text Center At the University of Virginia. Source for etexts, multimedia databases and lists of other resources.
The English Server Iowa State University. The definitive starting point for finding materials in or about English literature and language, and everything that can affect them.
Humanities Text Initiative This link takes you to the long list of texts and text collections that Michigan has made accessible with their great interface and extensive markup of the texts. Good resource for various versions of the Bible, classic English literature, Medieval literature, Old English materials.
Reading Room: Online Texts From the Internet Public Library. More than 4,500 titles that can be browsed by author, title, or Dewey Subject Classification.
Oxford Text Archive The original and largest text archive in English, this archive contains files of many different kinds of works in various formats, including ascii and SGML text.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In HTML format from MIT. The format is very readable, but be careful of the glossary links which were computer-generated and contain errors. Based on the Complete Moby Shakespeare.
The Victorian Women Writers Project From the University of Indiana.
The Voice of the Shuttle A comprehensive website for the Humanities, the VOTS English page is a great resource for tracking down texts and all related materials for any period in literature.
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