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Dictionaries/Thesauri
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Manuals/Writing
See also the Library's
Subject
Page for English.
- Literary Resources on the Net
From the prolific Jack Lynch, English professor at Rutgers University.
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Poets.org
From the Academy of American Poets, biographies, photos, poems, and more. Over 200 hundred poets and over 600 poems covered.
Also features an audio section featuring the work of 80 poets.
- The Cambridge History of
English and American Literature
From bartleby.com, the electronic edition of
this 18-volume 1907 classic. Search engine available but hidden at
the top of the screen (under the advertisement).
- Glossary
of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Two helpful literary dictionaries containing over one hundred devices and
literary terms. Definitions of devices include examples of usage. Compiled
by Robert Harris, writer and educator.
- Basic
Chaucer Glossary
Dictionary of over 300 Middle English terms, listed
alphabetically, from adoun to ywis. From Edwin Duncan at
Towson State University.
- Early
Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
Dictionary of nearly
128,000 terms from eleven dictionaries published between 1530 (Palsgrave)
and 1657 (Garfield). Search by word or by proximity of words.
- Glossary of Poetic
Terms
Dictionary of nearly 500 poetic and literary terms from
Abcedarian to Zeugma. Compiled from over over two dozen reference sources by Robert
Shubinski.
- Studies in Bibliography
Browse or search full-text issues of this seminal
journal, published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of
Virginia, back to the original 1948 issue.
- Inter-Play
An on-line index
to nearly 15,000 plays in many languages published in collections,
anthologies, and periodicals. Most plays included are not found in printed
play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections of
Play Index.
- The King's English
H.W. Fowler's 1908 classic. Sections include vocabulary,
syntax, grammar, style, punctuation, and more. Written to ensure "positive
literary virtues."
- Phrase
Finder
Handy source provides the meanings and origins of more than
3,000 English language phrases. Search by keyword though results may be
somewhat erratic.
- Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Browse or search the 1894 edition of
E. Cobham Brewer's reference favorite.
- Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
Electronic edition of Arthur
Quiller-Couch's
well-known reference work. Searchable by author, title, date, first
line, or by word. Brought to you by the web-saavy folks at Columbia
University.
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UVA Electronic Text Center English Language Resources
Full-text collections of Old English, Middle English, and Modern English resources, as well as comprehensive databases
of pre-1900 poetry, fiction, and drama.
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Alex: a catalog of electronic texts on the Internet
Another resource for electronic full-text. Alex is an indexed
collection of classic American and English
literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain and written or translated into English.
Maintained by: refweb@virginia.edu
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