Major British Writers: WWW Resources: Part I - Medieval & Renaissance

General

• Bibliomania -- Links to full texts of many "classics"
  

• Poetry: Mythological and Religious Allusions

• Bibliomania: Classic Poetry -- Including links to works of William Blake and Oscar Wilde.
  

• PoemFinder -- Service available to Moorhead State students, faculty, and staff -- for searching full-text of many poems, along with some critical references. Must be in the Library to connect.
  

• Internet Sources for English and American Literature (MiamiLink, Miami U. of Ohio Library) -- Includes Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration/18th Century, Romantic, and Victorian Periods
  

Journals

• Modern Fiction Studies (Project MUSE) - Includes full text of articles, includes coverage of British Literature topics (only available to subscribers)
  

Middle English

• The Middle English Collection (U. Virginia). Allows some searching and access to limited full-texts.
  

• Middle English Hyperbibliography -- "includes all the Middle English materials which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary. Although this bibliography is not exhaustive, it offers what we believe to be the most comprehensive single list of these materials available."
  

Medieval Studies

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies -- Georgetown University
  

Renaissance and Elizabethan Studies

• 16th Century Renaissance English Literature -- Including links to information on Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and more
  

• Early Modern Literary Studies -- A journal of Sixteenth and Seventeenth English Literature. It is a "refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"
  

• The Elizabethan Review -- A "scholarly journal devoted to publishing new research on Shakespeare and the English Renaissance." Access to Table of Contents of current issue, and selected articles from previous issues, without subscription.
  

Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Resources on the WWW (Donna K. Fitch)
  

• Yahoo's Shakespeare Links
  

• Shakespeare Illustrated -- a work in progress, but promising.
  

Chaucer

• Troilus and Criseyde -- Full text of the work online
  

• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Canterbury Web) - Can browse the Tales, and read about a Canterbury Tales Project.
  

• The New Chaucer Society -- Including membership information, and Studies in the Age of Chaucer
  

• Southern Illinois University's Page -- Including an online Chaucer bibliography; important events in the 14th century; and The Canterbury Tales in Modern English
  

Wyatt

• Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt (English 362; Malaspina U. College, British Columbia)
  

• Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Elder (Aanniina Jokinen)
  

Sir Philip Sidney

• Anniina Jokinen's Sidney Web Site -- Includes quotes, Biographical information, essays, articles, and poetry.

• Sir Philip Sidney Page (San Antonio College) -- Includes links to some of his works on-line.

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