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Bronte links

Works online

• Wuthering Heights online - Clean presentation, courtesy of Bibliomania. Links to plot summary, background material.
• Searchable Wuthering Heights - The place to find out where and how often 'rage' appears.
• Poems by Currer, Acton, & Ellis Bell - Psst: they're really the Bronte sisters. Emily's Ellis.

About Wuthering Heights

• The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights - A thoughtful article by Joyce Carol Oates (who's also no stranger to sadism).
• Notes on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights - Brief and interesting. By Gisèle Baxter, University of British Columbia.

Wuthering Heights in film

• Lawrence Olivier in the 1939 film - Stills and background.
• Salon review of the 1939 film

About Bronte and her sisters

• Chronology of Emily Bronte.
• Biography of Emily Bronte - Short, with links.
• The Bronte Sisters Web - A range of links to all things Bronte - Emily, Anne, Charlotte, even the dog....
• The Brontë Sisters - More Bronte Sisters information, including links to Jane Eyre
• About Haworth (West Yorkshire) - Welcome to Bronte Country

Wuthering Heights etcetera

• Wuthering Heights Roleplay - grab some dice, and start agonizing!
• "Wuthering Heights" - A poem by that ray of sunshine, Sylvia Plath (thanks to Mike)

Byron links

Works online

• Selected Poems - He wrote a great amount of poems; this gives you an idea of his range.
• Other works, including the journals & Cain - I couldn't find Cain online, but Marshall did. Thanks to him. This site also links to some Byron journals & biography.
• Don Juan online - Byron's cheeky mock-epic. Good, postmodern fun.
• Byron's Wit & Wisdom - Plenty of both here.

About Byron

• Byron: A comprehensive study - Includes a basic rundown on his over-active life.
• The corpse of Lord Byron - And yet he lives brokenly on...

Coleridge links

Works online

• The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive - His poetry, letters, philosophy; a timeline, a bibilography... Enough! Or too much...
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817) - A good presentation of the version of this poem we're reading; STC's marginal additions placed beside the main text.
• The Ancyent Marinere (1798) - The first version of the poem (not the one we're reading). Interesting to see what STC later changed. With concordance.

About Coleridge

• Basic background on STC - Hyperlinked, from The Oxford Companion to English Literature (ie, very correct).
• 'Coleridge's Albatross' - An informative 'hypertext essay' on The Rime by David Miall. Includes timeline, key passages, 'argument threads'.
• 'Supernatural, or at Least Romantic': the Ancient Mariner and Parody - An essay by Steven E. Jones that takes a deep look at comic book Coleridge.

Related Art

• Gustave Dore Art Collection - Includes his celebrated engravings of the Rime.
  
  

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"Monk" Lewis links

Works Online

• Text of The Monk - A strange project called Encyclopedia Index: opens a huge page with Lewis's novel, connected by hypertext to definitions of terms.

About Lewis & The Monk

• The Literary Gothic Matthew Lewis Page - Helpful collection of the scattered resources out there, including biography and snippets of old criticism.
• Romanticism On the Net: Matthew Lewis's The Monk - Respectable online journal devotes a whole issue to Lewis. Some interesting recent criticism here.
• Brief biographical context - Links to a few major themes and persons in Lewis's life.
• Cambridge History of Lit. entry on Lewis - Stodgy, helpful.
• The Monk and religion - A bit eccentric; takes ML's treatment of religion seriously.

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Burke links

• The Sublime & Beautiful - Bartleby.com slaps up the Harvard Classics printing of Burke's Enquiry - all five parts.
• Quick introduction to the Sublime & Beautiful - Two paragraphs contextualizing Burke's essay. From the Victorian Web, which also provides general background on the sublime
• Bjorn's Guide to Burke - Very short biography.
• Burke bibliography - Because enquiring minds need to know.

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Blake links

Works Online

• The William Blake Archive - Befitting a multimedia pioneer, a vast collection of his original artwork & poems.
• Blake Digital Text - Another great resource - includes a concordance, as well as a hypertext presentation of Songs of Innocence & Experience.
• MHH in the Digital Blake Archive - Think the text is strange? See how Blake originally packaged it.
• Tiger of Wrath - 176 examples of Blake's art.

About Blake

• An Introduction to William Blake - An extensive intro by Alfred Kazin. "Blake was a man who had all the contraries of human existence in his hands, and he never forgot that it is the function of man to resolve them."
• T.S. Eliot on Blake - "...a peculiar honesty, which, in a world too frightened to be honest, is peculiarly terrifying."
• Blake: Artisan - A step-by-step demonstration of his engraving technique.
• Blake, The Common Reader, and Multimedia - Is too much access to Blake too much of a good thing?

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Milton links

Milton in general

• Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources - major poet, major avalanche of information. Can be overwhelming, but this is a first-rate bibliography.
• Milton biography - Brief rundown of the major facts.
• Milton chronology - Quick: what year was he in prison?
• Luminarium Milton Page - Another extensive collection of information, particularly essays of all kinds written about Milton. Bonus: old music. (Thanks to Rachel)
• Milton-L - A discussion group populated by many a Milton prof. List archives extend back to 1995.
• Summary and Analysis of Milton's Prose - Solid background on his famous arguments for freedom of the press, civil liberties, and divorce.

Paradise Lost links

• Paradise Lost online - Elegantly formatted. Extensive research links, too.
• The Iconography of Paradise Lost - Some great images inspired by PL by Gustave Dore, John Martin, William Blake, and many more artists.

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Shakespeare links

Shakespeare in general

• The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Oxford Edition) - Forgot your book? Relax, it's all online.
• Shakespeare Search Engine - The fastest I've run across.
• Shakespeare Glossary - What does that word mean? When else did the Bard use it? Be patient - it's a slow loader, but worth the wait.
• Shakespeare Timeline - A good way to surf around what little we know about his life.
• Absolute Shakespeare- Nice study guide, image source. Thanks to Joan.
• Shakespeare Online - Slick compendium of information - boasts 2 million hits a month. Thanks to Ted.
• Who really wrote this stuff? - All the theories, all the controversy. Also check out PBS Frontline on the same debate.
• Shakespeare Authorship page - Here's an idea: maybe Shakespeare really was Shakespeare.
• The Globe Theater info - Where it all began.

Hamlet links

• An introduction to major themes in Hamlet
• A Hamlet anthology - some essays, photos, info on film versions
• How old is Hamlet? - sift through the evidence
• Enjoying 'Hamlet' - Ed Friedlander M.D., our guide, can be glib & his design is headache-inducing. Still, some interesting background on the play's sources. Thanks to Joan.

Fun and games

• Elizabethan Insults - Whip up your own Shakespearean put-down.
• Mix up your own Hamlet plot
• Green Eggs & Hamlet
• Head-bangin' Hamlet (thanks to Jon)

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