English - Selected Resources
Reference
- American writers
ODY Reference PS129 .A55
Biographical Encyclopedia - British writers
ODY Reference PR85 .B688
Biographical encyclopedia - Literature resource center
Online access to encyclopedias covering time periods, national literatures, and literary movements, global in scope. - Literary Criticism Collection
Extensive collection of literary criticism on the open web compiled by the Internet Public Library - The Oxford English dictionary online
Meanings, history and pronunciation for words, present and past; traces
the evolution of each word through chronologically arranged quotations.
Electronic Text Collections
- Black drama
1,200 plays by authors worldwide, 1850- - Eighteenth century collections online
24,000 books published in Britain and 18th century colonies - Electronic Poetry Center
Author pages, blogs, e-journals, and other open web contemporary poetry publications - Women’s Writers Online
Speeches, novels, books of poetry, 1526 - 1850
Writer's Resources
- Bookslut
Active online publication of contemporary literature - Directory of poetry publishers
ODY Reference PN161 .D47
Guide to small presses - Elements of Style
Open web version of the first edition of this famous guide by William Strunk - Literary market place
ODY Reference PN161 .L5
Guide to the writing business - Serials Directory
Information on periodicals and periodical publishers - WritersNet
Open web directory of writers, agents, publishers, and the book business





