Literature

Author's site, with bibliographic information and various brief personal statements on diverse topics.

Complete text of the book by Bruce Sterling. Provides an insight into the origins, thinking and culture which produced "cyberpunk."

Directions for joining the mailing list, which forwards online postings made by the creator of Babylon 5.

Fan-maintained website (Eric R. Weeks)

Cenotaphroad, the official site for SFF author Robert E. Vardeman.

Infinity Plus hosts this story by Ian Watson. The whole history of the world and human evolution reversed within less than 3000 words, but with a sense of place and characters.

Selling books and stories to download in popular formats. Includes a short biography of the author.

A critical analysis of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy; with reference to the art of plagiarism in fantasy literature.

By Lady Augusta Gregory (1902), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation of Dante Alighieri's classic.

Commentary on the Divine Comedy hyperlinked to the prose translation. Includes index.

Downloadable e-text from Project Gutenberg.

Includes excerpted text of letters to Emily's friend and sister in-law Susan Dickinson nee Gilbert.

From "Late Poems" (1950-55)

To a Waterfowl, Sonnet- to an American Painter Departing for Europe, The Poet and Thanatopsis.

From The Century Illustrated Magazine 23, published November 1881. From Project Gutenberg.

A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.

A searchable version of Emerson's first collection of essays which includes History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art.

Poem published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857.

A brief biography and survey of online links of the American poet, and writer of horror, mystery and science fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Burroughs all wrote about Thoreau. Includes an essay on the relationship between Emerson and Thoreau.

A detailed biography of Thoreau by Lucius Furius.

Etext and study resources at the University of Virginia.

From the autobiography entitled We Are Many, by Ella Reeve Bloor.

Rob Couteau's biographical essay on the author, published in West Hills Review, 1985, explores the poet as an American ideal, focusing on his spirituality and politics.

Full text organized by chapter of Mencken's analysis of the discrepancies between British and American English and the distinguishing characteristics of the latter.

Philip José Farmer on Kurt Vonnegut and Kilgore Trout.

Series of sermons preached in 1739 and published posthumously by his son of the same name.

Franklin's life as a printer, inventor, scientist, and revolutionary, with an introduction, a timeline and related links.

Text divided by chapter, with other related writings.

Etext of Paine's pamphlet.

HTML text from Mondo Politico.

Etext on the Hanover Historical Project's site.

Young adult novelist; with reviews, awards list, and synopses.

Young adult novelist, and finance writer; with a newsletter, biography, and guestbook.

Winner of the NSW Premier's Literature Award; with activities, poetry, and a biography.

Young adult novelist; with synopses, a biography, questions and tips.

Young adult novelist; with synopses, teacher notes, and a biography.

Young Adult novelist; with news, a biography, appearance details and a discussion board.

Picture book writer; with workshops, synopses and a biography.

Explore the fascinating and sometimes strange life of Francis Bacon and read his "Essays."

Electronic edition.

Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.

Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.

Sermons, poems, and Devotions. Downloads in PDF, HTML, or plain text.

Yumiko Yamada suggests that while many studies of Cervantes make connections to Shakespeare, the connection to Jonson deserves more critical attention.

An essay by Kathleen A. Prendergrast on Jonson's changing attitudes towards his fellow playwrights, the theater as a medium, and his own role as a dramatist.

Online publication A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale.

Sven Grzebeta's analysis of Hornby's books as "pop literature."

Benjamin Slade's critical edition of Beowulf, together with a facing-page translation, explanatory notes, glossary, supplemental texts and translations, background material, and links.