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This site provides an excellent overview of American Literature with a detailed table of contents. The introduction to each chapter explains principles that prevailed during that period. Covers individual authors and their relative literary periods; literary themes, bibliographies, and a wealth of relevant links.

The roots, influences, and works of the American Transcendentalist writers. Includes a list of links to Transcendentalist authors and their texts, background information and criticism on their ideas and philosophy, and links to additional web resources and bibliographies.

A wealth of information on Shakespeare, his literature and his time.

Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration and 18th Century literary texts. Entries for each author include: works, biography, criticism, quotations and links. Texts are from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed. (Description from IPL.org

Contains information on poetry and poets including search tool for poetry, reading guide and online journal, and provides resources for events related to poetry.