Literary Criticism
Looking for a critique of a particular author or work? You might find what you need in one of these links.
Looking for a critique of a particular author or work? You might find what you need in one of these links.
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
http://www.literaryhistory.com/
A selective list of open access literary criticism, links directly to articles, with separate pages for 222 American and British writers. LiteraryHistory.com focuses on signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
This is a searchable and comprehensive guide to author information with more critical links than most other sites.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
This detailed website is a guide to finding literary criticism and commentary about American authors. It is arranged by literary periods, and includes introductions and general bibliographies for each period.
Literature Resource Center AND Literature Criticism Online
A resource for literary criticism, author biographies, author title lists and thematic articles.
You must use a Toledo-Lucas County public library card to access. Once you enter your barcode and pin number, select "Literature and Reading" from the left. Then you can select the database you wish to use.
Other Places to Search
http://www.bookreporter.com/
This website provides information about book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles, etc.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx
LitLinks has biographies and short lists of links to authors in five literary genres: fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and critical theory. It also categorizes some good sites on literary periods from medieval through contemporary.
Biography Reference Bank (an INFOhio Database)
http://www.infohio.org
A great biographical information source that might also give you some ideas for your literary criticism. *Username and password required for home access
http://www.novelguide.com
Biographies, literary analysis, summaries and more.
Learning guides written by experts and educators, covering the subject areas: literature, poetry, bestsellers, U.S. history, civics, biography and music.
http://www.portal.grsu.by/portal/LIBRARY/CD1/arts/critics.htm
This page provides links to online sources providing literary criticism.
Poetry Only
Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
Modern American Poetry is a collaborative effort that aims to provide "a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time." One can find biographical information, bibliographies, criticism, commentary, and links to online copies of works on major modern American poets.http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poet.html
Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/
The official website of the American Academy of Poets offers essays, interviews, extensive bios, online copies of poems, audio clips, internal links to related poets, selected bibliographies, and external links on more than 500 American poetsRepresentative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
This site is an online anthology of poetry, which also includes biographical information and criticism about many of the poets listed in it.
Learning guides written by experts and educators, covering the subject areas: literature, poetry, bestsellers, U.S. history, civics, biography and music.
Online full-text of literary works
Literature Online (an INFOhio Research Database)
http://www.infohio.org/
Contains full-text, searchable works available online to supplement a library's print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included. The search engine allows searches across all 15 collections. *Username and password required for home access
http://www.literature.org
On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature.
http://www.ulib.org
The online library offers full text downloads of works that are in the public domain, or for which the copyright holder has been given permission to make available. Having the backing of prominent institutions such as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, however, the collection goes far beyond the widely available classics, though those are there, too.
Other sources for online books (ebooks) can be found here.
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A Glossary of 'Literary Criticism' Terminology can be found at http://web.mac.com/radney/humanities/litcrit/gloss.htm