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Romantic Circles

Romantic Circles, a scholarly website published by the University of Maryland, is "devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture." Originally featured in the Scout Report shortly after its inception in 1996, Romantic Circles continues to publish literary scholarship, teaching resources, and digitized Romantic-period texts and images. As explained in the About RC section (a good...

https://romantic-circles.org/
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Belfast Group Poetry: Networks

During the 1960s and 1970s, a group of poets known as the Belfast Group, including Philip Hobsbaum and Seamus Heaney, met to exchange poetry drafts and criticism. Commemorating the poets' literary and social networks, is the Belfast Group website. Published by Emory University - where many of the Group's archives are housed - the project is staffed by a team of archivists, software engineers, and...

https://belfastgroup.ecds.emory.edu
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University of Pennsylvania: Online Books Page

The Online Books Page is almost 25 years old and continues to offer a valuable and ever-expanding index for finding books (and other materials, including speeches and periodicals) that are freely available online. In fact, as of this write-up, the index lists over 2 million books, including books made available by HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and a number of other sources....

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
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The Internet Poetry Archive

While the layout of this site may not immediately impress, there are true and beautiful gems hidden only just below the surface. The site features seven poets and dozens of poems - each of them carefully composed and lovingly offered to the interested public. Each poem is presented in print form as well as in audio, as read by the authors. Seamus Heaney, who won a Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1995,...

http://ibiblio.org/ipa/
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Favorite Poem Project

This impressive project, spearheaded by Robert Pinsky during his term as U.S. Poet Laureate in 1997, features 50 Americans, young and old, of diverse races and creeds, reading their favorite poem. Drawn from the 18,000 poetry lovers who wrote into the project, each video starts with a beautifully produced mini-documentary. During these five minute films, the subject talks about his or her life,...

https://www.favoritepoem.org/
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Words Without Borders

Founded in 2003, the award-winning online magazine Words Without Borders (WWB) offers readers a terrific view into contemporary international literature. This resource aims to "open doors for readers of English around the world to the multiplicity of viewpoints, richness of experience, and literary perspective on world events offered by writers in other languages." WWB's monthly magazine publishes...

https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/
DreiserWebSource

Designed and maintained by the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library Collection at the University of Pennsylvania, the DreiserWebSource website brings together a host of written ephemera, original essays, and electronic texts related to the life and writings of Theodore Dreiser, the prominent American author. While the site doesn't have a formal search engine, the material is divided into...

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/?f%5Bcollection_sim%5D%5B%...
The Country of Molvania Receives its Due in a New Book

In these times, it is hard to find a region around the globe that remains untouched by the heavy hand of large-scale tourism and development. No doubt many tourists have grown weary of the sunny climes of southern Spain, wandering the Scottish highlands, or traipsing along the ancient monuments that are ubiquitous throughout Greece. Well, even the most intrepid travelers will have never even heard...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2004/0402
Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT)

Developed at University College Cork, the Corpus of Electronic Texts project is intended "to bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly project." Additionally, the project is designed to be utilized by a wide group of interested parties, including students, academics, and the general...

https://celt.ucc.ie/index.html
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau is widely considered one of the most important persons in the history of American letters in addition to an international reputation as a naturalist, philosopher, and author. This particular website serves as both a source of information about the authorized Thoreau Edition of his complete works (which was founded in 1966) and the Thoreau Project, which is located at Northern...

http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/
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