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