University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Anne Bradstreet
Biographical information and details about the themes and style of Bradstreet's poetry. Includes quotations from her poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband."
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Sinclair Lewis
A short but concise entry about the life and works of Sinclair Lewis is provided at this site.
Cengage Learning
Sherwood Anderson (1876 1941)
This site, part of the online teaching guide for the "Heath Anthology of American Literature," provides information on Anderson and his works intended to help instructors. Students may find the discussions of Anderson's themes and...
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin Publishing: Grace Paley (B. 1922)
This site, intended for instructions using the "Heath Anthology of American Literature," provides suggestions for teaching Paley's works. Students will find the background information on Paley's themes and styles, the connections to...
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin Company: The Jungle
This site, which is provided for by the Houghton Mifflin Company, presents various ways to examine one of the most powerful books of the century.
Cengage Learning
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Classroom Issues and Strategies
Provides lesson ideas for investigating the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It includes ideas on form, style, artistic appeal, comparison and contrast. There are also questions about the text provided.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Uncivil Civilization in "The Hairy Ape" Lesson
Various activities, discussions and assignments are suggested by this lesson plan that is designed for upper level high school students, particularly those in AP or IB programs.
Cengage Learning
Heath Anthology: Mary White Rowlandson
Examines Mary Rowlandson's account of her captivity in its historical perspective. Discusses the influence of Puritan sermons and the Bible on Rowlandson's writing. Contains reading response and discussion questions and a bibliography.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: James Russell Lowell Biography
This Bibliomania site provides a biography of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). Discusses his ancestry, education, and work as a poet, essayist, and satirist. Describes Lowell's role in the Abolitionist movement. Includes suggestions for...
Cengage Learning
Studying Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
This Houghton Mifflin site prepared by Elizabeth Ammons is a study site about Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the 19th century African American author.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Phillis Wheatley
Brief biography of early American poet Wheatley, including helpful links and other additional titles about her.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Phillis Wheatley (1753 1784)
Discusses classroom issues and strategies, themes, historical perspectives and issues, significant form, style and artistic conventions, original audience and comparison with Wheatley's contemporaries.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Cotton Mather (1663 1728)
This site from Georgetown University provides an analysis of Cotton Mather's major themes, historical perspectives, and personal issues, as well as the form, style, and artistic conventions in his writing. Includes study and discussion...
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Sarah Kemble Knight
This colonial document was written by Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727 CE). It is used in classrooms today.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Women's Studies Database: Edna St. Vincent Millay
This resource offers the text to over a dozen of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems.
Yale University
Ynhti: My Place in Time, by Michael Conte, Jr.
This lesson site from the Yale University provides narrative, notes, and teacher and student bibliographies. Investigates the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."
Yale University
Ynhti: The Humor of America, Ruth Schwartz
This site includes a summary of these lesson plans about humor, and a narrative on humor in writing to precede them. Discusses writings by Benjamin Franklin.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Archibald Mac Leish
This site houses three poems in full text from the great American poet Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982 CE), as well as criticism on two of his most famous. The three pieces are 'Baccalaureate', 'Two Poems from the War', and 'An Eternity'.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Additional Poems by h.d.
This site houses full texts of numerous poems by the American poet Hilda Doolittle. Among the poems are "Sheltered Garden," "Sea Poppies," and "Cities," to name just a few.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: William Carlos Williams
This is the Modern American Poetry index site for William Carlos Williams (1883-1963 CE). From this site you can click on links that take you to analysis of the author's works as well as a link to full text versions of additional poems.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Ambassadors
This site provides the complete etext to Henry James's The Ambassadors.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Beast in the Jungle
This site provides the complete etext to Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Beldonald Holbein
This site provides the complete etext to Henry James's The Beldonald Holbein.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Daisy Miller
This site provides the complete etext to Henry James's Daisy Miller: A Study.