ENG 426 Whitman and Dickinson

Over 1,000 items, including manuscripts, printed works, and portraits of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), the leading American poet of the 19th century.

Organized into ten chapters on the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors.

The purpose of all the American literature pages is to provide useful, interesting, advertising-free information on the subject and to provide links to the best information available for American literature from the earliest days through the 1920s.

Literaryhistory.com is a free, public service reference site for online literary criticism maintained by Jan Pridmore, a Boston-based independent scholar.

If you study 19th-century literature, check here! A peer-reviewed scholarly site bringing together a growing number of digital projects relating to nineteenth century literature.

Includes authors & texts, roots & influences, ideas & thoughts, and criticism

Links to information on the life and career of Emerson, exhaustive lists of online versions of his writings, critical analysis of his writings, and more.

pages maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers

web site for humanities research

Free full-text access to thousands of electronic books on a wide variety of topics. Includes books in English as well as many different foreign languages.

"Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing." Arranged chronologically, and includes an index to the chapters in each volume, as well as an index to the bibliographies in each chapter.

The publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in culture. Includes poems, articles and biographical information on poets.

Provides online access to the full text of literary reference works, including encyclopedias, thesauri, quotation collections, and language usage guides. Additional links provide access to poetry anthologies and selected works of fiction and non-fiction.