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Guides to citing printed, electronic and Internet resources using the Harvard and APA styles.

Encyclopedia Mythica

The award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, Greek heroic legend, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, we feature special interest areas to enhance and refine your research. A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses. 

Holy Grail

Presents interpretations of the Holy Grail by poets, writers, and artists. Provides the text of works such as Tennyson's "Sir Galahad," James Russell Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal," and Jessie Weston's "Knights of King Arthur's Court." Also includes images by artists such as William Ernest Chapman, William Russell Flint, and Franz Stassen. Part of the Camelot Project of the University of Rochester.

           How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem without Knowing its Title or Author

           Locating a novel, short story, or poem without knowing its title or author can be very difficult. This guide is intended to help readers identify a literary

           work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase.

Journal X

University of Mississippi. The Department of English is best known regionally, nationally, and internationally for its work in Southern literature and creative writing.

Litline

Established by the Illinois State University, the Unit for Contemporary Literature serves as a focal point for contemporary literature in the community, region and nation.

Modern Fiction Studies

Publishes essays on all aspects of modern and contemporary fiction welcoming theoretical perspectives; we are equally interested in work on canonical texts and work on emergent texts.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Welcome to the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre’s free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, which offers an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.

Perspectives In American Literature 

Perhaps no other site on the web is more often cross-referenced and "linked to" from the thousands of other literary web pages than the PAL site.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Depending on the sources of reference that one chooses, Omar Khayyam is believed to have composed somewhere between 200 and 600 Rubaiyat (quatrains). Some are known to be authentic and are attributed to him, while others seem to be combinations or corruption of his poetry, and whose

origins are more dubious.

Angry Penguins

This was the name of a modernist literary and artistic movement that sought to shake up the entrenched art establishment of Australia in the 1940’s.  The group was run by a group of ‘angry’ and passionate young men – the rebels of their day.  The angry penguins expressed a ‘noisy and aggressive revolutionary modernism’ and represented the new language and the new painting of Australia. They were forthright and unapologetic, ‘demanding’ to be heard and seen. This site also includes some useful and interesting links.

Australian Humanities Review

A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal.

Australian Literature on the Net

These are useful general sites for researching Australian literature on the Internet and provide a good starting place for research.  They provide a diverse range of information as well as providing links to other useful sites both in Australia and overseas.

OzLit

If you have an interest in Australian literature then OzLit is the site to begin your search. We extend an invitation to all Australian writers to contact us re updates or additions to our database.  At this site we have more than 500 pages of Australian literary information as well as more than 1100 entries in our books & writers database.

           Storytelling is an integral part of life for Indigenous Australians. From an early age, storytelling plays a vital role in educating children. The stories

           help  to explain how the land came to be shaped and inhabited; how to behave and why; where to find certain foods, etc.

The following catalogue includes most of the electronic editions of eighteenth-century works publicly available on the network. "Eighteenth century" is understood extremely broadly — this very long eighteenth century runs from Milton through Byron, or thereabouts.

Covers some of the major authors of the time, plus links to other sites.

A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature.

Devoted to the study of Gothic fiction in England from 1764 to 1840. Provides students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of Gothic resources available on the web.

A digital library of 18^th and 19^th Century journals.

"Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20." Find e-texts, essays, and discussion groups about the literary supernatural. Browse by author or title. Includes research tips. From the English Department at Southern Illinois University.

                            Absolute Shakespeare

                            Lists the complete works including the sonnets, critiques on each play, biography on Shakespeare and much more.

                            Welcome to the web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

                            Treasure in full. On this site you will find the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres

                            were closed in 1642.

                            Covers some of the major authors of the time, plus links to other sites.

                            This resource is particularly good for finding information on English-language authors, but also includes many authors whose works

                            have been  translated into English.

                            The site features discussion questions and activities, a  brief biography of Lee, information about the historical context of the novel,

                            comments on the book by prominent Chicagoans, and links to related sites.

Photographs, biographies and poetry of Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar.

With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.

Classical Chinese poetry in Chinese, as well as English translations. Selected sound recitations of poems. Poets. Complete collections of Li Bai, ...

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

This is a web site of poets reading their own work.  It is a growing resource and can be browsed by author name, poem title, subject and form.  It could be a useful site for people studying poetry as well as an interesting part of a library display about poetry - well worth a look and listen.

An educational resource to aid students, educators, and the curious. We have collected thousands of classical poems to help you recall fond memories or to help create new ones. Our database is searchable by first-line, author and poem title by key words using the search feature located on the top right corner of each page. If you're having trouble finding a specific poem, please try our active discussion forums. We constantly monitor user requests and add them if they aren't under a copyright.

Addresses the interests of poetry fans or students as well as writers and teachers. Beginning topics include postmodernist poetry, finding a theme, word choice, and publishing. Advanced topics include literary criticism, poetry movements, and intellectual foundations.

The goal of this project is to create a user-friendly library of works that promotes browsing and exploring through a site that spans thousands of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years. If you are looking for something in particular, you can generally find it through one of the sets of index files. Search by Author/Title/Subject and First line.

Is one of the many programs sponsored by The Academy of American Poets, a non-profit organization founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.

Robert Burns

Scotland's favourite Bard, is famous the world over for his poems and songs, often regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic Movement he is still inspiring and influencing Scottish literature centuries after his death.

His unique, contemporary, passionate and often radical work is what differentiates Burns from other poets of his generation. A keen traveller, Burns collected folk songs from across Scotland along the way, revising and adapting them into his own unique style. Equally famous for his thought provoking, romantic poems as he was for his more humorous work, like Tam O'Shater, his ability to diversify is one of the many reasons his work has survived through the ages.

Covers authors and lists the various Australian Literary Awards.

News and links to literary prizes worldwide.

Awarded since 1917 Pulitzer prize is one of the most coveted awards.  Includes a time line.

Annotated links to sites that are related to Arthur Miller and his work, and to any of his major drama contemporaries.

Includes websites and web pages with information on authors and illustrators of Australian children's and young adult works and a number of adult works of interest to school students.

Need information about these people. Need craft/story time ideas associated with their work? Look here!

Edgar Allan Poe

Biography and collection of material about poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe. Features a walking tour of Edgar Allan Poe's Publishers Row in New York City, a selected bibliography, and some of Poe's poems, such as "The Raven" and "The Bells." Includes links to related sites and to profiles of other poets from the Romantic era. From the Academy of American Poets.

A comprehensive biography.

The official site of J K Rowling.

Covers all the major authors.

Red Room

This website's goal is to create a social network for authors and readers. It features pages for authors including Maya Angelou, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Khaled Hosseini, and Amy Tan, with author biographies, lists of published works, blog entries, and audio and video clips (such as the 1988 San Francisco high school graduation speech by Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket). Browsable by author or genre. Also includes an events listing.

Roald Dahl 

Explore the world of Roald Dahl with the aid of Miss Honey, Matilda, or James. There are games to play, book reviews to complete, quizzes, and the Roald Dahl challenge - how alike are you? Listen to an interview with Roald Dahl and hear him read an excerpt from the BFG.

An index of pages featuring writers who have pushed the edges of their medium, combining literary talent with a sense of experimentation to produce some remarkable works of modern literature. Though all these writers certainly fit the “Libyrinth” theme, they have not yet been scheduled for a site in the Main Collection with Joyce, Borges, Pynchon, et al. This is not to say that these authors are any less important or talented; in fact, many of these writers will one day have their pages expanded into more extensive sites.

This website about Thomas Hardy features a chronology, information about editions of his works, maps of the fictional Wessex where his stories take place, and links to related sites (such as one for his home in Dorset). From an organization founded to promote the work of this British novelist and poet, known for works such as "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and "Far from the Madding Crowd."

This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

Aims to foster children's enjoyment of books through Children's Book of the Year Awards, providing information on and encouragement to authors and illustrators, organizing exhibitions and activities during Children's Book Week, supporting children's library services and promoting high standards in book reviewing.

We hope you'll find a book to tickle your fancy, light up your life, get you thinking, cheer your mood, inspire you, make you cry ... a book to remember forever, give as a gift, use in class, or make a difference to a non-reader. These books are favourites, well-regarded ... we hope you'll add them to your favourites list.

Is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.

Scroll down the page to “Children” and you will find a mine of books for children.

Select by school grade.

This page is maintained by the Youth Services staff of the Highland Park Public Library.

Virtually every children's and young adult book published in the United States is reviewed and rated in The Horn Book Guide, over 2,000 titles in each semi-annual issue. Five indispensable indexes, including an extensive subject index, make it a peerless resource for librarians, classroom teachers, booksellers, and professors of children's literature.

Database of over 20,000 books in series titles for children and young adults. Browse by series title, book title, author, or series subject (such as dinosaurs, dragons, horses, and spies), or use the main search link at the bottom of the page.

Is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950.

Our database contains abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books.

Looking for an interesting read? Here are some of our favourites. Look for new titles each week!

A tour through history from the 19th century.

The database contains abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program.

To help you find your way through our reading lists; we've organized them into the general theme categories you'll find at the left. When you click on a theme, you'll be taken to a page of book lists in that category that have been prepared by our ASK ME Desk staff.