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Arts & Letters Daily (Find out what the British are up to.)
Authors or Quotations (Return to the Top)
- American Authors
- Authors: American, British, & World (by ELibrary)
- Bartleby.com Great Books Online (Internet publisher of literature, reference & verse.)
- Great Writers
- Native American Authors
- The Quote Garden
- The Web Concordances (Great Books–Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances.)
OR go to the Helix Online Catalog to find a book in our Library on your author.
Type in the last name, first name. Example: Twain, Mark
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Banned Books (Return to the Top)
| “[I]t’s
not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that
will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” — Judy Blume |
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- American Library Association (ALA) on Banned Books
- Banned Books Online
- Banned Books and Censorship - Loyola University
- Intellectual Freedom Resources - Link to Library Bill of Rights
Biographies (Return to the Top)
- African
American Biographical Database
American National Biography Online
Biographical Dictionary
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-Present
Biography.com
Library Spot Biographical Info
Native American Authors (Internet Public Library)
POTUS: Presidents of the United States
Drama (Return to the Top)
Film as Lit Class (Return to the Top)
Literary Criticism Resarch (Return to the Top)
- Do a BigChalk search for "Title of Work" or author's name AND criticism
- Try the Helix Library Online Catalog (type author's name & look books in 813's)
- Gale Literary Index (will give books that we possibly have in the Helix Library)
- Do a Google.com search for "Title of Work" or author's name AND criticism
- LibrarySpot (at "By Type" select Author or Poet)
- USA Writers (at Sparticus)
Literary Fun (Return to the Top)
Mythology of the Greek & Romans (Return to the Top)
Poetry (Return to the Top)
- American Verse Project (An electronic archive of approximately 175 volumes of American poetic verse published prior to 1920. Search features include: Simple, Proximity, Boolean, plus a Word Index. These texts may be copied freely by individuals for personal use, research, and teaching–including distribution to classes--as long as their statement of availability is included in the text.)
- Bartleby.com (A collection of poems–and quotes–from a variety of sources.)
- British Women Romantic Poets (This collection consists of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789 and 1832. Complete texts are included that are not readily accessible from other sources, and often may not be well known, or are only beginning to be of interest to scholars.)
- Famous Poets and Poems (great collection of poetry, searchable by poet,genre, and keyword)
- Lyrics World (Find the lyrics to many popular songs here. It contains lyrics for songs found in Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999, the #1 Songs of 1930-1999, Top Singles by Decade and Artist Collections, plus many songs that aren't easily found. the site is well organized and easy to navigate.)
- Poetry Archive (recordings of poets reading their work)
- Poetry Archives (A collection of thousands of classical poems.)
- Representative Poetry Online (An excellent collection of the great poets of the English language includes about 2,500 English poems by 403 poets. Time period ranges from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. Included is an extensive collection of criticism, both in verse and prose forms. The collection is indexed for access by: poet, title, date, keyword and first line. There is a timeline and glossary included.)
A
book index in the Helix Library for poems:
* Granger's Index to Poetry
(REF 808.81)
Poetry
Lovers Only check these web sites out:
* Poetry Super
Highway
* Academy of American Poets
* FindPoetry.com
* Write Express: Online Rhyming Dictionary
Research Topics (Return to the Top)
Need an idea for your Research Paper? Look at these links!
- Connect for Kids (Topics)
- Teen Space Teen Topics
Shakespeare (Return to the Top)