Author
Guides "This directory is an index of indexes. It contains pointers
to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific
writers." From Mike Russo, Louisiana State University Libraries.
Great
Writers on the Internet from Montgomery College Library, Conroe, Texas.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project by Paul P. Reuben, Department of English, California State University, Stanislaus. "With over 400 author pages, this site has been recognized as a major presence in American literature on the internet. Found useful by students and teachers around the world, it is a research and reference tool, not a term paper factory. This site is particularly useful for those who have no or limited access to university libraries and databases.
For nearly ten years, PAL has been online as an ongoing project. Readers will find regular updates of existing pages as well as additions of new authors, appendices, and expanded bibliographies with call numbers of those titles which are available in the CSU Stanislaus Library (useful for interlibrary loans).
Please note that many of the study questions, which appear on different PAL pages, are taken from John Alberti, ed. the Instructor's Guide for the Heath Anthology, Second Edition, 1994, and Marjorie Pryse, Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fourth Edition, 1994."
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"Friend of both Izaak Walton and Ben Jonson, John Donne was the most famous of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century, a group that included George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Placing a premium on intellectual wit, learned imagery, and subtle argument, Donne's poems have remained some of the most enduring from this period. Created as part of the Luminarium Project by Anniina Jokinen, the site features the complete works of John Donne, including spoken word versions of many of his poems. The additional resources section is quite helpful, as it contains many different biographical sketches of Donne, along with a number of images of Donne from his childhood to his appointment as the Dean of St. Paul's in 1621. Scholars will be pleased to find a page of critical essays on Donne's works available here, some written by students, some by faculty, and one particularly trenchant commentary by T.S. Eliot." Internet Scout Report |
"Best known for his fine use of meter and eccentric personality, Algernon Charles Swinburne was one of the best-known poets of Victorian-era England. Edited by John Walsh of Indiana University, the Swinburne Project currently contains four volumes of Swinburne's poems, two volumes of his prose from the Bonchurch Edition of The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, and his second classical drama, Erechtheus. The online works can be searched by word, phrase, stanza, or paragraph. The site also features a chronology of Swinburne's life, including information about when his key works were composed. Readers unfamiliar with his work may do well to browse through some of his poetry, or perhaps take a look at some of his well-received criticism, which includes studies of Ben Jonson and Shakespeare and his contemporaries." Internet Scout Report
The James Fenimore Cooper Society "This Website is devoted to "encouraging the enjoyment of Cooper's 32 novels, appreciation of his ideas, and providing useful information to students, scholars, and readers." And the site does not disappoint, standing as one of the most comprehensive single-author Websites we've seen. It provides copious text by and about Cooper, including online copies of little-known Cooper texts -- mostly articles and short stories; links to texts of his novels; a browseable/searchable hypertext bibliography of hundreds of scholarly articles and papers devoted to Cooper available online; reference documents providing historical context to Cooper's work; an annotated bibliography of Cooper criticism in print; an annotated list of quality links; materials relating to Susan Fenimore Cooper (a nature writer in her own right whose work influenced her husband); a picture gallery promising to contain images of Cooper, his manuscripts, and the landscapes about which he wrote (currently this contains about a dozen pictures from the 1911 filming of The Deerslayer); and considerably more. Created and maintained by scholars, relatives of Cooper himself, and devoted amateurs, the site's adoration of its subject does not prevent it from also presenting a few of the fine send-ups of Cooper's prose style penned by other authors, including Thackeray's "The Stars and Stripes," a parody of Cooper's style originally published in Punch. The site is still under construction, and visitors can look forward to plentiful additions in the months to come. The authors of the site also promise to answer any questions sent to them relating to Cooper; click on "Ask Fenimore" on the homepage." Internet Scout Report
Henry James Scholar's Guide
to Web Sites "Maintained and created by Richard Hathaway, an educator
at the State University of New York at New Paltz, this site is a compendium
of links and writings by and about the American writer Henry James. The site
begins with a collection of electronic texts of James' works. Some of the more
recent additions include short stories that James wrote specifically for The
Atlantic Monthly during the 1860s. While the site cannot be searched in its
entirety, a table of contents provides some assistance for those hoping to navigate
its sections. The contents include such topics as Henry James conferences, Finding
other etexts, The Henry James E-Journal, and an on-line discussion group. The
section dealing with writings by and about James will be of great interest to
scholars and students, as it includes links to study guides and musings on his
great works by other noted authors and scholars." Internet Scout Report
"Composer, distinguished author and translator, and man of belles letters,
Paul Bowles passed away in 1999 in Morocco, which was for many years was his
primary place of residence. Bowles best-known work is probably his novel The
Sheltering Sky, though he also translated Sartre's "Huis Clos" (upon
which he bestowed the title "No Exit") and was an accomplished composer
of music for the theatre. Created by his long-time friends and colleagues, this
authorized Paul Bowles site contains a number of reminisces about his life from
such friends as Ned Rorem (the noted American composer), Rodrigo Rey Rosa, and
Irene Herrmann. Some provided essays interview Bowles, some discuss his literary
legacy, and others talk about his many compositions. All in all, the site offers
a number of insightful and intimate commentaries on one of America's most storied
writers of the 20th century." Internet Scout Report
"The Thomas B. Harned collection of the Walt Whitman papers spans the period
1842 to 1937, with most of the items dated from 1855 to 1892. ...The collection
consists of correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts, notes and notebooks,
proofs and offprints, printed matter, and miscellaneous items, laminated and
boxed in seven containers, and supplemented by one manuscript box of ancillary
material. A detailed description of the Harned collection has been published
in the Library of Congress publication Walt Whitman: A Catalog (1955), which
contains an introductory essay on significant Whitman collectors and their collections
and an annotated bibliographic listing of Whitman items located among the collections
of various divisions within the Library of Congress.
...Whitman's personal habits were such that he wrote and collected his notes in a casual and unsystematic manner, entrusting his thoughts to whatever odd scrap of paper chance would provide, be it the back of a used envelope or the verso of a letter. His notebooks contain an equal number of random jottings, some no more than bits and pieces of paper sewn together to form a small notebook. These notes and notebooks include names and addresses, trial titles, trial lines of poetry and prose pieces, diary and hospital notes, pencil sketches and drawings, drafts of poems and essays, autobiographical and personal notes, printing and publishing notes, and miscellaneous notes on a wide range of subjects such as history, geography, politics, and ethnology." This site allows you to view images of Whitman's work online.
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