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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oscar Wilde the Teacher of Wisdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Oscar Wilde's prose poem "The Teacher of Wisdom." Includes a link to other full texts of Wilde's work on Bibliomania.
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full collection of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. Click on the title of the desired poem or series of poems.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Rhythms in Poetry: Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
Poet laureate Langston Hughes is featured in this brief biography highlighting his vast collection of writings, particularly his poetry, which drew upon racial and self awareness in America. See "Langston Hughes Activities" for related...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation: Adrienne Rich

For Students 9th - 10th
Adrienne Rich is featured in this brief biography for her contributions as a contemporary feminist poet and prose author. See "Adrienne Rich Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Penn Warren

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers excerpts from interview with Warren about a reunion at Vanderbilt in 1956, on his writings and values, on HAWKS, on rhythm in prose. There is also a review of HEARTS OF AUTUMN. This site also has a photo of Warren.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Tornoto: Ben Jonson

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Index page from the University of Toronto offering the complete texts of twenty of Jonson's poems, as well as one work of prose.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: The John Milton Reading Room

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a website devoted to John Milton. It provides the complete text of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonists, and other works of poetry and prose.
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Other

Small Comfort by Katha Pollitt

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece sends a message about happiness and mortality.
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First World War

First World War: Prose & Poetry Wilfred Owen

For Students 9th - 10th
The First World War.com offers a very brief biography, this site touches on Wilfred Owen's (1893-1918 CE) work as well. Includes the text of his poem "Futility."
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the original Middle English. Within the text is also a modern English prose translation.
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Other

Brock University: Critical Reading: A Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In addition to thoroughly exploring the purposes and functions of an analytical essay, this resource provides students with step-by-step instructions for reading and analyzing poetry, prose-fiction, and fiction. The site also offers...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: John Dryden

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of Dryden's most important critical prose work is available here from the University of Toronto.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Middle Ages: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Middle Age literature focuses on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It features links to the work both in prose and poetry format and an audio clip of lines 1-19. It also offers links to information of King Arthur,...
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Other

The Confederation Poets: Charles G. D. Roberts (1860 1943)

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site on Confederation poet, Charles G. D. Roberts. Contains criticism ("Charles G. D. Roberts and William Wilfred Campbell as Canadian Tour Guides" and "Symboliste Elements in the Early Short Stories of Gilbert Parker, Charles...
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Ruben Dario en La Biblioteca Nacional De Chile

For Students 9th - 10th
Great biography in Spanish of the Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario, considered by many to be the greatest poet of the Spanish language. He pioneered the modernist movement in prose and poetry. Some of his writings are available in Spanish at...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Robert Lowell

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical site on poet Robert Lowell from the Academy of American Poets. With a list of his poems, prose, anthologies and dramas. Includes links to a collection of poems, including the Skunk Hour and The Public Garden, available in...
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University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Renascence Editions: The Faerie Queene [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596) prepared from The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser (London 1882).
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Luminarium

Luminarium: The Works of Milton

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains links to Milton's poems, sonnets, and prose, as well as complete text to his epic poems "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained."
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Blake Digital Text Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Index page for the full text of Blake's prose and poetry as well as an online concordance and related resources.
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Other

The William Blake Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided by the The William Blake Archive, gives a discussion of Blake's life as a double artist and his inspiration for both his art and poems. Users will find images of the original pages for many of Blake's...
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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: The Linguistic and Literary Contexts of "Beowulf"

For Students 9th - 10th
Use these online resources from the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" to provide both depth and breadth to your understanding of the poem "Beowulf," whether you are a student reading it for the first time or a teacher preparing to...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Matthew Arnold

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides full texts of 29 poems and the prose work "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865) by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888).
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...

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