A brief biography of Rupert Brooke, English poet.

Brief biography of English writer and critic Samuel Johnson, including personal background, career information and important works.

Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.

Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words,...

This webite on English Romanticism by Elizabeth Whitney focuses on the Romantic period including defining Romanticism, the history and politics, the Romantic poets, visual arts, and music. It also offers a link to the radio program "The...

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.

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...

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...

This site from Bibliomania contains the English translation of the work of the 11th century poet, Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald's translation is the best, and most respected translation of this ancient poem.

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.

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.

This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...

A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Simple Stories for English History by Lancelot Speed, a fiction book for children.

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.

A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of Royal Children of English History by Edith Nesbit, a book of biographies for children.

A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Stories from English History by Albert Franklin Blaisdell, a book of stories for children.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of True Stories from English History by Maira Elizabeth Budden, a nonfiction book for children.

A comprehensive site devoted to American literature compiled by a professor of English at Washington State University. Includes an alphabetical index of American authors, with links to biographical information, works online, critical...

This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes information of regionalism in poetry located in section X 'Later Poets'. Check out 1.Poets of East and West 5. The Middle...

A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of Tales of English History by Evelyn Everett-Green, a fiction book for children.

This lesson focuses on Anglo-Saxon Literature including the importance of the monks who listened to the stories and poems and wrote them down and the two nonfiction pieces that had an impact on creation of the written language: The...

This Bibliomania site surveys the literary history of the English in colonial Virginia. Includes analysis of the work of Captain John Smith, William Strachey, and George Sandys. Links to other notes about early American literature.

This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...

A survey of the Quaker writers from the Colonial period extracted from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.