Literature

Complete text of Beowulf as it appears in the Friedrich Klaeber edition. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

Translation by Clarence Griffin Child.

Each line of the Old English text is interleaved with a corresponding line from Francis B Gummere's modern English translation

Translation by Francis B. Gummere. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

Old English poem in which each Latin verse of the psalm is followed by an Old English paraphrase.

Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

Craig Williamson's introduction provides extensive background information organized into eight topical divisions.

Old English texts of Riddles 45, 76, 25, 23, and 27. Includes Modern English translations by Craig Williamson, textual notes, and commentaries.

Old English texts of Riddles 5, 8, 29, 30a, 35, and 46. Each word in each text is linked to a modern English definition.

Old English text and facing modern English translation by Benjamin Slade. Includes introduction and explanatory notes.

Electronic edition by Tim Romano. Includes images of the folios, transcription of the Old English text, glossary, introduction, modern English translation, and commentary.

Modern English translation of the Latin version. By Ann E. Watkins.

Lengthy biography produced by the magazine Orthodox England. Gives a detailed account of Alfred's life and achievements.

Excerpt from the Old English text (years 754-755). Each word is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.

A list of names and topics in the Chronicle. The entry for each item includes a link to the year or years in which the item appears in the James Ingram translation. From the Online Medieval and Classical Library.

The Joseph H. Stodder review, "Three Apocryphal Plays in Los Angeles."

Selection of articles on the authorship question.

William Stanley's environment is used to build a case for authorship of Shakespeare's works.

Includes discussion, teacher's guide, web resources and a related report.

A computer-aided analysis of the commonalities of style in de Vere and Shakespeare.

Peter Morton analyzes Andrew Field's The Lost Chronicle of Edward de Vere (1990), and Absent Thee from Felicity (1975), by Rhoda Henry Messner.

Analyzes the anti-Stratfordian position that William Shakespeare was too prosperous, contented and bourgeois a figure ever to have written poems like Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

A listing of book and play titles derived from the words of William Shakespeare.

Gary Kuchar does not believe that adequate attention has been paid to the rhetorical and intertextual elements that work to effect a reader's frustration.

Elizabeth Burow-Flak reviews the Cynthia Lewis book.

Its coverage is exhaustive up to 1999, by José Ramón Díaz-Fernández.

The author talks about her book, 'Passion Lost'. From January Magazine.

Review of the book from January Magazine.

Review from CM Magazine.

Interview with John Ralston Saul from the Insight and Outlook radio series.

Article from The Ring, the University of Victoria newspaper.

Brief profile.

Review of the novel.

Includes a bibliography and list of related links.

Brief biography and books list.

Biography from the Canadian Encyclopedia.

Reviews of several books.

Review of the book.

Excerpt and review of the book.

Review of 'Stella - Star of the Sea' by kindergarten and grade one students.

Official site includes a biography and samples of his work.

Biography, poems, writing philosophy, published works, and awards.

Review of 'What's That Noise?'.

A profile of the author based upon an interview with her. Tells how she came to be a writer and the story behind several of her books.

Review of 'The Colour of Spring'.

Biography, criticism, and selected bibliography.

Reviews of 'Past Wildflowers' and 'Petrushkin!'.

Biography, poems, awards, and published works.