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Luminarium

Luminarium: 17th Century English Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
A website covering 17th century English literature. Extensive list of links connected to many prominent writers of the time. A detailed historical timeline of the 17th century provided.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Sources for 17th Century English Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains a plethora of links to websites related to the 17th century. Literature, music, history, politics, and the role of woman are all covered by these links.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485 1603)

For Students 9th - 10th
Luminarium offers a student resource for learning about the authors of the English Renaissance period. Contains links to over 25 different authors from the period which contain their biographies, bibliographies, and text to some of their...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Middle English Literature (1350 1485)

For Students 9th - 10th
Listed as Medieval literature, you can find authors from the 14th and 15th centuries here, as some are considered Renaissance writers. Excellent resource with links to extensive info on the writers including Chaucer, Langland, and Gawain.
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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology of English L Iterature: Sixteenth Century: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introductory material for a survey of sixteenth-century English literature offering information on the period, its major figures, and influences.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Anglo Saxon Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This student resource site provides links to Anglo-Saxon/Old English literature, culture, and heritage.
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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: 17th Century British Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into the world of 17th century British literature to find out what makes this period in history so unique. This overview gives a comprehensive look at the work of the era.
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Anglo Saxon & Old English

For Students 9th - 10th
A selected bibliography for primary and secondary materials, including facsimile texts in Old English, translations into modern English, and scholarship.
eBook
Other

Selfknowledge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from SelfKnowlege.com provides the text of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge, with notes. It also has several links to information on Coleridge.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by the Medieval Sourcebook, this site offers a modern English translation of the "Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation," Books 1 through 5.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Background

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides background for an English Renaissance unit; it compares the English Renaissance with the Italian Renaissance. It features Queen Elizabeth I's influence and provides a poem written by the queen, "When I Was Fair and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to the Anglo Saxons and the origins of the English language. It provides a brief history of England and examines elements of Anglo-Saxon society and language that still exist in English literature today. It...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation offers information about Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965 CE) who earned the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending...
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BBC

Bbc History: Rupert Brooke (1887 1915)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Rupert Brooke, English poet.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Romantic Revival

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the world of British Literature from the Romantic Period. This site focuses on information on the authors of the romantic period, as well as links to their works. Check it out.
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Other

Beowulf in Cyberspace

For Students 9th - 10th
Providing translations, maps, essays, and resources, this is a good online resource for students, particularly advanced students, reading and studying the Anglo Saxon poem, "Beowulf." The "Old English" glossary included at this website...
eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Thomas Carlyle

For Students 9th - 10th
This Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) portal gives access to biographical information about this Victorian social and polticial historian's life and work, such as his importan history of the French Revolution.
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Emory University

Emory University: History of Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This Emory University resource provides information about the history of drama in the Neo-Classical time period.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones by Charlotte Mary Yonge, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for Little Ones by Charlotte Mary Yonge, a nonfiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Royal Children of English History

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of Royal Children of English History by Edith Nesbit, a book of biographies for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Stories From English History

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Stories from English History by Albert Franklin Blaisdell, a book of stories for children.