English / American Studies
    a website - primarily for students and teachers of English in the Danish gymnasium & HF


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   ·  E-texts                     Literary resources                     Tekstsamlinger/Anthologies
   ·  Literary history                  Lit. analysis                         Essays, analyser, opgaver
 

E-texts

   ·  Project Gutenberg
   ·  Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
   ·  Bibliomania On-line literature, study guides, m.m.
   ·  Electronic text center
   ·  The Internet Public Library links
   ·  The Online Books Page A powerful search engine
   ·  Representative poetry online digte fra middelalderen og frem til nutiden
   ·  Luminarium Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century Literature

Ireland

   ·  CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts Texts, incl. literature and the arts

Australia

   ·  SETIS Australian Literature Database - 19th and 20th century Australian texts
 

    ·  Voice of the Shuttle The most thorough guide to resources
    ·  English Literature on the Web
    ·  Literary Resources on the Net
    ·  20th Century Poetry in English
    ·  British and Irish Authors on the Web
    ·  LiteraryHistory.com a guide to critical articles on literature
    ·  About.com:  links by period and category - rather commercial:
             Literature: Classic                       Lit.: Contemporary                               Poetry
             Quotations                                                                                                 Shakespeare
    ·  The Internet Public Library: Literature

    ·  Contemporary Writers in the UK British Council
    ·  Animating Literature British Council

    ·  Literary Movements Information on American authors, including timeline and links
    ·  American Literature on the Web Voice of the Shuttle
    ·  American Literature on the Web Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki University, Japan
    ·  American Authors on the Web
    ·  American Authors Academic info
    ·  Perspectives in American Literature
    ·  Modern American Poetry
    ·  The Mississippi Writers Page
    ·  Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
    ·  Academy of American Poets
           Listening Booth more than 150 audio clips, and our list is always growing
    ·  The American Literature Archive
    ·  The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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On-line tekstsamlinger / Anthologies

• BBC radio 4 Lydfiler med oplæsning af noveller,romaner, dramaer, etc.

• New Writing Anthology British Council

• Short stories at east of the web
  
  First Chapters / Extracts

• First Chapters Hundreds of book excerpts, arranged alphabetically by author. The New York Times
• First Chapters Guardian Unlimited

• BBC: Poetry Out Loud   Poets perform their own work
   

• The Oxford Book of English Verse
  Six centuries of the best poetry in the English language

• The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
  From Donne and Traherne to Whitman and Yeats

• The Oxford Book of Ballads

• The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse

• An American Anthology  (1787 - 1900)

• Yale Book of American Verse
  - including Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell  (    - 1912)

• Modern American Poetry
  Ezra Pound, Stephen Vincent Benét, Emily Dickinson, a.o.

• Modern British Poetry
  - including Bridges, Kipling, "A. E.," Synge and De la Mare.

• Anthology of Irish Verse  

• Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C

• The Golden Treasury  - of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Francis Palgrave, ed. 1921

• English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray 
  1909–14.  With a glossary of over 1,000 footnotes

• English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald 
  1909–14. The English Romantic poets.

• English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman
  1909–14. 19th century Britains and Americans

• Verse Anthologies and poets. Bartleby.com
   

• Wired for Books CBS journalisten Don Swaims radiointerviews med nulevende forfattere. Derudover f.eks. Macbeth, oplæsning af Alice in Wonderland, digte af Emily Dickinson mm. 

• English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay. 
  1909–17. Four centuries of the development of English prose

• Essays: English and American 1909–17. Twelve nineteenth-century authors on topics biographical, literary and philosophical
   

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
  - an encyclopedia in eighteen volumes, written from 1907–1921

• Norton Topics Online:
  The Romantic Period              The Victorian Age             The Twentieth Century

• English Romanticism  -  focusing on the major players and ideas behind the English Romantic movement in literature, art, music, and science

• Introduction to the Romantic Era in English Poetry Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College

• in-yer-face theatre - celebrates the best in new British drama today

• An Outline of American Literature - literary history

• A Student's History of American Literature

• The American Novel  Carl Van Doren, 1921. Historical treatment of the development of the "Great American Novel."
   

• Introduction to Literary Analysis - internt link

• Analysis of poetry – a guide   Langkær Gymnasium

• The Literary Encyclopedia

• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• A Glossary of Literary Terms                        A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
   

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