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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Henry Fielding

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good biography of Henry Fielding (1707-1754 CE), the English Romantic novelist.
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University of Pennsylvania

Romanticism: Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links to many authors of the Romantic era. Biographies, works, and portraits are displayed for each author.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
From William Blake and John Keats to Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters, explore 23 iconic authors from the Romantic and Victorian periods.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: The Romantic Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides a description of the era, with an extensive list of links to authors of the time.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Chronologic Index of Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, under the Chronologic Index of Authors, are links to three of Lamb's poems, near the bottom of the page.
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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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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
Video on the life and works of poet Emily Dickinson highlighting her literary contributions which often challenged many of the common beliefs among her peers. Click on "Emily Dickinson Activities" for related materials. Part of a...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Romantic Revival Austen

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Cambridge History of Literature, provides analysis of the life, novels, and early works of Jane Austen.
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Other

The Thomas Love Peacock Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The T. L. Peacock Society serves to popularize the virtues of Peacock's novels and poetry as well as other writings. This index page links to full-text novels and poems by the 19th century Romantic-era writer.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
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Other

U Mass: The Bluestocking Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
Well-organized archive of primary texts on 18th-century English high culture, including the "cult of sensibility." Almost exclusively women authors, with the notable exception of Byron.
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State University of New York

The James Fenimore Cooper Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This website has everything you need to know about James Fenimore Cooper and is a good starting point for anyone doing research on this 19th-century author. Included are a detailed biography of him, literary comments about his writings,...
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Other

Incompetech: Samuel Taylor "Estese" Coleridge 1772 1834

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a biography of the Romantic age poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: American Romanticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on American Romanticism, from about 1800 to 1850. It defines the types of writing of the period and the power of poetry including the Fireside Poets: Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier, Lowell, and...
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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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University of Pennsylvania

U. Penn: Notes on "Lyrical Ballads"

For Students 9th - 10th
This etext is the original notes, preface, and advertisment for the book "Lyrical Ballads," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Whittier: Quaker Ancestry and Nature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Biography and analysis of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Describes his Quaker upbringing, his role as an abolitionist, honors bestowed upon him, and his ballads. Includes analysis of his anti-slavery poetry and "Snow-Bound." Use...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Etext

For Students 9th - 10th
This famous "Ghost," story is especially popular around Halloween. Read the original version by Washington Irving here.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Old Christmas by Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides multiple digital formats of Old Christmas by Washington Irving.
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Other

Dickinson Electronic Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
A central location for the study of resources related to Emily Dickinson.
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Other

The Poe Museum:the Cask of Amontillado

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry has the text of "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. This site is sponsored by the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia.
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The Poe Museum/the Murders in the Rue Morgue

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has the text of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. This site sponsored by the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia.