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Fine Arts

Archives of American Art -  http://www.aaa.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Institution's American art history site.  A growing digital collection allows online access to many of the AAA collections and exhibits.
Artcyclopedia  -  http://www.artcyclopedia.com
An index of images from 2,300 art sites and links to an estimated 180,000 works by 8,500 artists.  You can search by artist's name, title of work, or museum.  Or, you may browse by name, medium, subject, nationality, or a list of women artists.  The site also includes links to art news, Web sites, art museums, and sellers.
Art Images for College Teaching -  http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=aict&page=index
A database of images categorized in historical/style periods.
The Art History Research Centre -  http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/
A good beginning place for searching art history over the World Wide Web.
The Mother of All Art History Link Pages -  http://www.umich.edu/~motherha/
Had its beginnings at a 1995 University of Michigan workshop for art historians using computers.
Sculptor.Org -  http://www.sculptor.org
A comprehensive resource for sculptors.
Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance -  http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg15/gg15-main1.html
Offers seven paintings from the last quarter of the century of the 1400s with an overview of the period.
The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery -  http://www.vggallery.com/
An impressive site with images of over 4,000 of Van Gogh's works.  The site also includes a biography with references, chronology of his life and works, and sources for further study.

Museums 
Cleveland Museum of Art -  http://www.clemusart.com/index.html
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -  http://www.thinker.org/
The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library -  http://www.frick.org
A collection of Western European art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century that industrialist Henry Clay Frick bequeathed to the public.
The Getty Museum -  http://www.getty.edu/museum
Google Art Project -  http://www.googleartproject.com/
Access to museums around the world. You can zoom in for a closer examination of hundreds of pieces of art. You can also create and share your own collections.
Los Angeles Museum of Art -  http://www.lacma.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -  http://www.metmuseum.org
Museum of Modern Art -  http://www.moma.org/
A valuable resource for introductory research with its glimpses of recent exhibits, information about the departments of the Museum, and numerous links.
National Gallery of Art -  http://www.nga.gov/collection/
The National Gallery of Art: Index of American Design -  http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm
This index consists of more than 17,000 watercolors owned by the National Gallery.
The Rembrandt House Museum -  http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/
Exhibitions from the house in Breestraat, Amsterdam, where Rembrandt lived during his most successful years.
The Saint Louis Art Museum -  http://www.slam.org/
The official Web site of the oldest publically supported art museum in the country and one of the country's top ten most-visited museums.
Tate Modern -  http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Britain's national museum of modern art.
Yale University Art Gallery -  http://www.yale.edu/artgallery/
The Web site of the oldest university art museum in North America.

Languages

Literature

American Literature
The Academy of American Poets -  http://www.poets.org
Browse or search for information on modern American poetry.
American Authors on the Web -  http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
A large list of American literature links collected by a professor at Nagoya University in Japan.
American Studies Web Hypertexts -  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
University of Virginia project including full texts of fifty-one American authors.
American Literary Classics -  http://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML
Full-text of thirty-two classics of American literature.
American Verse Project -  http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse
Search more than 50 volumes of American poetry written prior to 1920.
American Writers -  http://www.americanwriters.org/
Companion web site for a C-SPAN special series, this site offers an in-depth look at 45 American writers who helped shape the nation, featuring biographical and historical background information for each featured author.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures -  http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html
Essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States, designed as a complementary resource to the electronic discussion list, T-AMLIT, created and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University's American Studies Program.
The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers -  http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/
Biographies, information about their books, and bibliographies of other information sources, including literary criticism.
Modern American Poetry -  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
Biographies, literary criticism (some created for the site and some that has been published in literary journals or books), historical background, and bibliographies.
Native American Authors -  http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/
Bibliographies, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature -  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
A searchable 278 page research and reference guide by Paul P. Reuben, Professor of English at California State University, Stanislaus.
Voice of the Shuttle American Literature Page -  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2739
Links to full text, criticism, teaching resources, and journals.

American Authors

Elizabeth Bishop 
Elizabeth Bishop - Academy of American Poets -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/7
Biography, selected bibliography, a few full-text poems, including one with an audio link of the poem read by the author.
Elizabeth Bishop: American Poet -  http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/
Biography, a lengthy (but not complete) bibliography, and other links of interest.

Kelly Cherry 
Benjamin John -  http://users.aol.com/marchst/library_frame.html
A book of poetry at March Street Press.
The Cypress and Other Poems -  http://gloria-brame.com/glory/ezine2.htm#kelly.htm
A few full-text poems from Thermopylae.
Diana Awaiting her Death in the Colosseum -  http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/9/cherry9.htm
A sample of her work in Cortland Review.
Field Notes -  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/cherry/field.htm
The poem as it appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.
Literature Resources -  http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/classical.html
MIT Libraries' Classical & Medieval literature links.
Gethsemane -  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/cherry/gethsem.htm
The poem as it appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.
Saturday's Child -  http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/7/cherry7f.htm
The work as it appeared in Cortland Review.
Time out of Mind -  http://users.aol.com/marchst/time_out_of_mind.html
Book of poetry at March Street Press.

Emily Dickinson 
The Dickinson Electronic Archives -  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/
Writings by the Dickinson family, responses to their writings, critical resources and teaching aids from the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
The Dickinson Homestead -  http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
In addition to information about the center, there is a good list of links to electronic resources for further study.
Early Nineteenth Century: Emily Dickinson -  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/dickinson.html
From PAL: Perspectives in American Literature.
Emily Dickinson -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155
From The Academy of American Poets.
Emily Dickinson -  http://www.bartleby.com/people/DickinsoE.html
The 3rd volume of her poems at Bartleby.com.
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886 -  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/dickinson.htm
From Modern American Poetry.
Emily Dickinson International Society -  http://www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org/
Includes a calendar of events and scholar registry.
Joyce Carol Oates on Emily Dickinson -  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/emily.html
Brief excerpts of writings from Joyce Carol Oates

T.S. Eliot  
TSE -  http://web.missouri.edu/~tselist/
Home of the T.S. Eliot discussion list.
T.S. Eliot -  http://www.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Th.html
His works at Bartleby.com.
T.S. Eliot on the Web -  http://web.missouri.edu/~tselist/tselinks.html
A good collection of links to full-text works by Eliot and sites with further study of his work.
T.S. Eliot Academy of American Poets Page -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18
A brief biography including list of works with links to other resources about Eliot.
Thomas Stearns (TS) Eliot: American Poet and Playwright -  http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95sep/eliot.html
Brief bio, links to works available online, and further reading.

Ralph Waldo Emerson  
Emerson: A Visionary Life -  http://www.watershedonline.ca/literature/Emerson/EMERSON.html
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Texts -  http://www.emersoncentral.com/
Ralph Waldo Emerson -  http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Emerson/index.htm

William Faulkner  
Mississippi Writers Page on William Faulkner -  http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html
William Faulkner on the Web -  http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
William Faulkner Society -  http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/faulkner/index.html

Robert Frost  
A Frost Bouquet -  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/frost/home.html
An exhibition at the University of Virginia.
The Frost Trail -  http://northbennington.org/frost.html
Robert Frost -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192
From the Academy of American Poets' site.
Robert Frost: America's Poet -  http://www.ketzle.com/frost/
Robert Frost Reading His Poems -  http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/012294_harp_ITH.html

Nathanial Hawthorne  
Nathaniel Hawthorne -  http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/h/hawthorne19ro.htm
From American Literature on the Web.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/hawthorne.html
From PAL: Perspectives in American Literature.

Ernest Hemingway  
Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park -  http://www.ehfop.org/
Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum -  http://www.hemingwayhome.com/
Hemingway Resource Center -  http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center -  http://hemingway.astate.edu/
Picturing Hemingway: A Writer and His Times -  http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/index.htm

Langston Hughes  
Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes -  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hughes.html
From PAL, Perspectives in American Literature.
Langston Hughes -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83&CFTOKEN=83404327
From the Academy of American Poets.
Langston Hughes -  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm
From Modern American Poetry.

Harper Lee 
Harper Lee Teaching Resources -  http://www.webenglishteacher.com/lee.html
Monroe County Heritage Museum -  http://www.frontiernet.net/~mchm/
The Courthouse on the town square, which now houses the Monroe County Heritage Museums, served as a model for the famed courtroom scene from the book.
The To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide -  http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/index.html
 
Robert Lowell 
Robert Lowell -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/10
From the Academy of American Poets.
Robert Lowell, 1917-1977 -  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lowell/lowell.htm
From Modern American Poetry.

Flannery O'Connor  
The Flannery O'Connor Andalusia Foundation -  http://www.andalusiafarm.org/
 
Sylvia Plath 
Joyce Carol Oates on Sylvia Plath -  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/onplath.html
Sylvia Plath -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11
From the Academy of American Poets.
A Wind of Such Violence -  http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/
 
Edgar Allan Poe 
Edgar Allan Poe Historic Site -  http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_poe.htm
The Edgar Allan Poe Society -  http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
Knowing Poe -  http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org
A Poe Webliography -  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/poesites.html
The Raven Society -  http://scs.student.virginia.edu/~ravens/
 
Carl Sandburg 
Carl Sandburg: Chicago Poems -  http://www.carl-sandburg.com/
Carl Sandburg -  http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/28
From the Academy of American Poets.

Mark Twain  
A Bibliography of Critical Studies of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/twainbib.htm
Everything Mark Twain -  http://www.easylit.com/marktwain/
Mark Twain -  http://marktwain.miningco.com/mbody.htm
Mark Twain in His Times -  http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/
 
Eudora Welty 
Eudora Welty -  http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/index.html
From the Mississippi Writers Page.
Eudora Welty Foundation -  http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/admin/weltyfound.html
Eudora Welty Newsletter -  http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwewn/
  
Walt Whitman 
Walt Whitman: Poet at Work -  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html
From the Library of Congress.
Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive -  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/
From the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Classical & Biblical 
The Bible Gateway -  http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Search the Bible in ten languages (English, German, Swedish, Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Tagalog, Norwegian) and multiple versions.
Classics at Oxford -  http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.asp
Libraries, research projects, and online datasets.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library -  http://www.ccel.org/
A large on-line library of classic Christian books for download or browsing.
Early Church Fathers -  http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/
A large collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church.
The Internet Classics Archive -  http://classics.mit.edu
441 works of classical literature by 59 authors.
Literature Resources -  http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/classical.html
MIT Libraries' Classical & Medieval literature links.
Online Medieval and Classical Library -  http://omacl.org/
A Berkeley's SunSite resource.
The Perseus Project -  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
A comprehensive, searchable classical culture site, featuring online texts and images.

Medieval  
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350 - 1485) -  http://www.luminarium.org/medlit
Primary texts, author biographies, and articles on Middle English literature.  This site also includes links for further study.
Comitatus -  http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/comitatus.html
A journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies.
Early Modern Literary Studies -  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web.  Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
Digital Dante -  http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/
Columbia University's Institute for Learning site on Dante that includes Dante's work, essays on his work, bibliography, images, news and more.
The Electronic Beowulf -  http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/English/Beowulf
Digital images of the Beowulf Manuscript, a comprehensive glossarial index, and a new edition and transcript, both with search facilities.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook -  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
A large database divided into three categories: an index of selected and excerpted texts, full-text sources, and a section devoted to the Saints Lives.
The Labyrinth: Manuscripts -  http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Histories, bibliographies, and digital images of manuscripts from the Middle Ages. You can also scroll to the bottom of the page to find more resources by category or type.
Literature Resources -  http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/classical.html
MIT Libraries' Classical & Medieval literature links.
The Middle English Collection -  http://etext.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html
A large library of Middle English works made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
Online Medieval and Classical Library -  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
"A collection of some of the most important literary works of Clssical and Medieval civilization."

Renaissance & 17th Century 
Comitatus -  http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/comitatus.html
A journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies.
Early Modern Literary Studies -  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web.  Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) -  http://www.luminarium.org/renlit
This site provides author bios, bibliographies, essays, and links to additional sources about approximately 30 of the most notable figures of the period.
Luminarium: Early 17th Century English Literature (1603-1660) -  http://www.luminarium.org/renlit
This site provides author bios, bibliographies, essays, and links to additional sources about over 30 of the most notable figures of the period.
Renaissance Electronic Texts -  http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html "A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works."
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) -  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit
Biographies and the works of John Donne, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury, Robert Herrick, Lady Mary Wroth, Henry Vaughan, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace and Sir John Suckling.<
Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project -  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/
The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, this site collects primary source materials from one of American history's most sensationalized and misunderstood episodes, includes scanned copies of contemporary books.

18th Century 
18th Century E-Texts -  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html
A searchable catalog of 18th century texts available on the Web.
Early Modern Literary Studies -  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web.  Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
Restoration & 18th Century Literature -  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2738
A directory of links to 18th Century resources maintained by representatives from the University of California Santa Barbara's English Department.

Shakespeare 
Complete Works of William Shakespeare -  http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
An award-winning site offering a chronological/alphabetical listing of the plays in the categories of comedy, history, tragedy, and poetry, with a searchable concordance and with selected words linked to their definitions.
Early Modern Literary Studies -  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web.  Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet -  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/bestsites.htm
An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.
Open Source Shakespeare -  http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org
Full-text access to the plays, sonnets, and poems. This site also includes advanced searching, a concordance, character lists, and statistics about the texts.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Shakespeare Homepage -  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/bestsites.htm
Essays including an outline of Shakespeare's life, Shakespeare's school experience, Shakespeare's authorship, plot summaries of his plays, and study materials.  From this page you can also access the library which includes a searchable database of all the performances and performers from the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1879.
Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now (Encyclopedia Britannica) -  http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html
An information rich Web site with essays on Shakespeare's life, his work, and his contemporaries.  It also includes study guides and a bibliography of works which can be viewed by date written, title, type, characters, or settings.

Ethnicities & Nationalities 
Literatures Other Than English -  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719
The Voice of the Shuttle's extensive directory on world literature and related resources organized by country.
University of Virginia ETexts: African American -  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
Links to full text works by African Americans.  Some texts may be restricted to University users only.
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color -  http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
An instructional site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.

Romantic 
Romantic Chronology -  http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
A searchable chronology/time-line of the Romantic period.
Romantic Circles -  http://www.rc.umd.edu/
A Web site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
Romantic Links, Electronic Texts, and Homepages -  http://icr.byu.edu/
A lengthy directory of resources devoted to Romantic-period literature and culture maintained by the International Conference on Romanticism.
Romanticism on the Net -  http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Romanticism on the Net is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Romantic studies.  You can search the articles database or view articles by issue.  This site also includes an excellent directory of other Romanticism Web sites.

Victorian  
English Literature, Victorian Period -  http://www.academicinfo.us/englitvictorian.html
From the Academic Info directory.
Literary Resources: Victorian British -  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html
Part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
Victorian Studies on the Web -  http://www.victoriandatabase.com/
Information on every important publication from 1945 to 1999 on every area of Victorian Studies.
The Victorian Web - Authors -  http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/vn/vicauth.html
Features pages on about forty authors, including their biographies, chronologies, lists of works, and an introductory or other relevant essay.
Victorian Women Writers Project -  http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp
Transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using SGML. Works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, poetry and verse drama.

Women's Literature & Feminism 
A Celebration of Women Writers -  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present -  http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
Biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways, including writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
Literary Women of the West Bank -  http://home.sprynet.com/~ditallop/homepage.htm
On-line magazine on early Modernism, especially women in Paris, 1900-1940.
Victorian Women's Writer's Project -  http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color -  http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
An instructional site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.
Women Come to the Front -  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
A Library of Congress exhibition on women journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II.
WSSLinks: Literature and Culture -  http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html
A large directory of reputable sites maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Bibliography & History of the Book 
Alabama Center for the Book -  http://alabamacenterforthebook.lib.ua.edu/ The Alabama affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book.  This Web site provides information about events, programs, and resources.
Bibliographical Society of America -  http://www.bibsocamer.org/
The Society's papers and an extensive list of Web links.
Bibliography and History of the Book -  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/biblio.html
Part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
Manuscripts, Books,and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World -  http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/
Traces the development of the printed book and features photos of early manuscript examples.
Resources for the History of Books and Printing -  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/hbp.html
Extensive links compiled by Daniel Traister at the University of Pennsylvania.
SHARP Web -  http://www.sharpweb.org/
Abstracts, papers, and conferences, as well as extensive related links from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing.
Writing Materials & The History of Books and Printing: Some Related Links -  http://members.tripod.com/dante_6/paleo.htm
A collection of Web sites on the history of paleography, the book and the printing press.

Full Text Sources Online 
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet -  http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
A collection of 600 works of American and English literature as well as Western philosohy.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library -  http://www.ccel.org/
A large on-line library of classic Christian books for download or browsing, many available in a variety of formats including pdf, Microsoft or Adobe e-book reader, HTML, and zipped for easy downloading.
Early American Fiction -  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf
A collection of American fiction from 1789-1875.
The Electronic Text Center -  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
A fabulous directory of free electronic texts that you can browse by language.  It includes poems, novels, magazines, newspapers (historic), plays, religious works, and reference books. Made available by the University of Virginia Library.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature -  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
German, Italian, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and others.
Hypertexts -  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
A collection of American literature, including poems and novels.
The Middle English Collection -  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html
A subset of the UVA Electronic Text Center.  You can browse the collection by author, or use the keyword search at the top of the page.
The Modern English Collection -  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
A collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present.
Page by Page Books -  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Hundreds of classic books, from Aesop to H. G. Wells and everything in between, all in convenient page-by-page format.
Project Bartleby Archive -  http://www.bartleby.com/
A large collection of verse, fiction, encyclopedias, quotation dictionaries, and other reference works.  Many reference works are available in later editions in print, so be aware of possible updates to information provided in older editions.
Project Gutenburg -  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
The oldest producer of free electronic books most from pre-1923.

Miscellaneous  
Cambridge History of English and American Literature -  http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
All eighteen volumes of this distinguished scholarly encyclopedia assembled from 1907 to 1921.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable -  http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/frameset.html
Browse the dictionary by alphabet.
Dictionary of Symbolism -  http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html
Browse alphabetically or search the index.
The Literary Encyclopedia and the Literary Dictionary -  http://www.litencyc.com/
Edited by Robert Clark and other professors of English at various universities..
Online Literary Criticism Collection -  http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.20.00/
From the Internet Public Library, this site provides links to over 2400 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Online Poetry Classroom -  http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/
Provides both professional development for high school Language Arts teachers and a virtual teaching community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested curricula.
Representative Poetry Online -  http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present, including over 2,000 poems by 310 poets.

Theatre & Drama 
Applied & Interactive Theater Guide -  http://www.tonisant.com/aitg/
A resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes, and for those whose theatre styles incorporate other than traditional presentation styles.
A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies -  http://www2.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html
Maintained by Ken McCoy of Stetson University, this site lists Internet resources divided into five major sections: those McCoy finds most helpful, Web resources by topic (actors and acting, stagecraft, etc.),other ways to connect (discussion lists, for example), and other guides.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. -  http://www.dramatists.com/
Publishing new plays since 1936, the Dramatists Play Service offers a handy directory for identifying and purchasing specific plays.
Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms -  http://www.theatrecrafts.com/glossary/glossary.shtml
A 1500+ word and growing catalog of theatre terms that can be searched or browsed by keyword or category.  This glossary is maintained in the UK, but U.S. terms are included and some terms are equivalent.
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama -  http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland
An extensive collection of resources including history, literature, language, and culture of the Irish.
WWW Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama -  http://www.vl-theatre.com
A gateway to resources in more than fifty countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages. ECLAT! -  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
Essential Comparative Literature and Literary Theory site from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism -  http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/
On-line version of the extensive print guide to theory and criticism.
Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website -  http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
A project at the University of Texas including commentary on the works of the Frankfurt School of thought.
Literary Theory Page -  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718
The Voice of the Shuttle comprehensive directory of resources on Theory from the Classical period to modern day.

Music

General 
American Music Resource -  http://www.amrhome.net/
Provides bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text-files covering all styles of American music and related issues.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources -  http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Links collected by librarians at the Indiana University Music Library.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias 
Virginia Tech MultiMedia Music Dictionary -  http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/
The dictionary includes definitions, pronunciations, and suggested listening examples.

Libraries 
American Music Center: Online Library -  http://www.amc.net/library/default.aspx
Three searchable libraries - the Scores library of over 30,000 scores, a catalog of American music for young audiences, and a recordings library.  The site also includes a virtual library and listening room updated daily by the composers themselves.

Publishing & Record Labels 
Record Labels on the Web -  http://allrecordlabels.com/
Searchable database of over 24,000 record labels on the Web. 
A-R Editions, Inc. -  http://www.areditions.com/
Publisher of scholarly editions of music and books dealing with music.
JW Pepper -  http://www.jwpepper.com/catalog/welcome.jsp
Search for sheet music by composer, title, or category from one of the world's largest retailers.
U.S. Copyright Office -  http://www.jwpepper.com/catalog/welcome.jsp
The official Web site with information on registering a work and links to the database where you can search for copyrighted music by composer or title.

Societies & Organizations  
American Federation of Musicians -  http://www.afm.org/public/home/index.php
The largest union for professional musicians.  This site provides music business resources (such as booking agents, news, and conferences) and information about music schools and scholarships.
American Musicological Society -  http://www.ams-net.org/
"Founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."
The College Music Society -  http://www.ams-net.org/
A consortium of college and university musicians.
International Association for the Study of Popular Music -  http://www.iaspm.net
Lots of resources and papers on popular music study.
National Association for Music Education  -  http://www.nafme.org/
The Web site of the National Association for Music Education.

Music Theory  
Essentials of Music -  http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
From Bach to Wagner, find it all in this site from W.W. Norton and Sony.
Music History 102 -  http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
A guide to Western composers and their music from the middle ages to the present.
Society for Music Theory -  http://www.societymusictheory.org/
Information about the society, access to full-text journals, and links to highly relevant resources in music theory.

Classical and Early Music  
Classical Net -  http://www.classical.net/
Provides wide array of information about classical music with over 4200 files at the site and over 2500 links to other web sites.
DW3 Classical Music Resource -  http://www.lib.duke.edu/dw3/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=177
Duke Univeristy Libraries collection of music links. It includes a search engine and  New Resources section. 
The Classical Music Navigator -  http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
A project conceived by Dr. Charles H. Smith, Associate Professor of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.

Folk  
Mudcat Cafe -  http://www.mudcat.org/
A site devoted to traditional folk music, it includes a lyrics database.  This site goes offline from time to time due to lack of funding, but is worth retrying for its unique content.
"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals -  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
From the Library of Congress' American Memory Site's Folklife Center, this online collection consists of sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943 at the folk festival at Fort Valley College, now Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia.
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip -  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
From the Library of Congress' American Memory Site's Folklife Center, is a multi-format ethnographic field collection which includes nearly 700 sound recordings (102 of which are performed in Spanish), fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502 mile trip through the Southern United States collecting folksongs.

Jazz 
WNUR-FM JazzWeb -  http://jazz.wnur.org/
A user-built project of WNUR-FM at Northwestern University.
The Red Hot Jazz Archive -  http://www.redhotjazz.com/
History of jazz.

Big Band
Bigbands Database -  http://www.nfo.net
Information on bands and music in the U.S., England, Canada, and Europe.

Lyrics
The International Lyrics Server -  http://www.songfile.com/
A searchable database of over two million songs.
Mudcat Cafe -  http://www.mudcat.org/
A site devoted to traditional folk music, it includes a lyrics database.

Speech

Writing