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- Gloria
Anzaldúa ( - ). La
Frontera -- a section of Border
Crossings, an "experiment in hypertextual relationships"
by Karla Tonella of the University of Iowa that explores the
common ground between Cyborgs, Gender, LesBiGay, Dispora,
La Frontera, Border Incidents and Other Borders; Making
Face, Making Soul -- a Chicana Feminist web site; and
an Anzaldúa
site at Queer
Theory.com, "the best online resources integrated
with the best visual and textual resources in Queer Culture,
Queer Theory, Queer Studies, Gender Studies and related fields."
- Elizabeth
Bishop (1911-79). Elizabeth
Bishop's page at The
American Academy of Poets site -- with biography, criticism,
works, and a recording of Bishop reading "The Armadillo";
The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Elizabeth Bishop, from
the PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a reading
of a Bishop poem); critical material on Bishop
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a smaller site dedicated to Bishop
at Vassar.
- William
Bradford (1663-1752). William
Bradford, part of the Capitol
Project at AS@UVa,
an examination of Puritan iconography and literature as represented
in both the Capitol building and American culture at large
-- this section looks at The Mayflower Compact in particular;
a link to "America's
HomePage: The Past, Present, and Future of Plymouth, Mass";
a private (but informative) page on Bradford
at AOL -- part of Caleb Johnson's "Mayflower
Web Pages"; and a link to "A
Walking Tour of Plimouth Plantation."
- Anne
Bradstreet (1612?-72). An archived copy of the first edition
of several
poems (1650) at UC Berkeley -- part of Mary Kay Duggan's
course "Print, Literacy, and Power" (School of Information
Management & Systems).
- Gwendolyn
Brooks (1917- ). The Gwendolyn
Brooks Page from The
American Academy of Poets -- includes an audio clip of
Brooks reading "We Real Cool"; critical material
on Brooks
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and Brooks's
entry at Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (UofMinn).
- Sterling
Brown (1901-89). Brown's
page at The
American Academy of Poets site -- with biography, criticism,
works, and a recording of Brown reading "Slim Greer in
Hell"; critical material on Brown
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a hypermedia version of the 1925 Survey
Graphic -- "Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro."
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959). The
Raymond Chandler Website: A World Wide Web site providing
scholarship and information about Raymond Chandler, America's
foremost detective novelist; and an informative bio-page on
Chandler
(with links) at Pegasos,
a "literature related resource site in Finland. And for you pulp fiction fans, The Thrilling Detective Web Site: an extensive site devoted to the hardboiled heroes of Kevin Burton Smith's boyhood.
- Kate
Chopin (1851-1904). "Kate
Chopin: A Re-Awakening," is a Louisianna Public Broadcasting
production that revisits the life and work of renowned nineteenth-century
Louisiana author Kate Chopin. Actress Kelly McGillis (Witness)
narrates the documentary and actress JoBeth Williams (The
Big Chill) reads passages from Chopin's fiction. The program
was produced by Tika Laudun and Lucille McDowell and directed
by Tika Laudun, based on a script by Anna Reid Jhirad, and
photographed by Rex Fortenberry and edited by Randy Ward,
with digital restoration and effects by Steve Mitchum. Funding
was provided in part by grants from the Louisiana Division
of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Also a Kate
Chopin Page -- maintained by Kim Wells as part of her
"Domestic
Goddesses" site.
- Sandra
Cisneros (1954 - ). Cisneros's
page at Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (UofMinn); another
informative site on Cisneros
at Las
Mujeres; a feature article in Rooted Magazine, called
"The
House on Guenther Street," that documents the troubles
Cisneros has had with her (purple) house in San Antonio; critical
material on Cisneros
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and an article about the controversy surrounding
Cisneros' winning a MacArthur Foundation Award called "Genius
Can Come in Many Colors."
- James
Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). A site called "Romancing
the Indian" at UVa that has a section dedicated to
Cooper's
Indians; a copy of "Fenimore
Cooper's Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain; and "Home
as Found" -- a site dedicated to Cooper by the James
Fenimore Cooper Society.
- Stephen
Crane (1871-1900). A complete list
of e-texts (many of them illustrated) and resources at
American
Literature on the Web (an impressive site maintained by
Akahito Ishikawa at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages
in Japan); a site on The
Red Badge of Courage
at UVa that includes a general
introduction (with links) by Eric J. Gislason, illustrated
information on the Battle
at Chancellorsville; and an illustrated article entitled
"Imaging
the Civil War: Authenticity in Painting, Photography, and
The Red Badge of Courage."
- Countee
Cullen (1903-46). A good collection of Cullen's
poems at Jill Diesman's site on The
Harlem Renaissance at Northern Kentucky University; the
Countee
Cullen page at The
American Academy of Poets site (with a reading of "Heritage");
critical material on Cullen
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a hypermedia version of the 1925 Survey
Graphic -- "Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro."
- Emily
Dickinson (1830-86). A website "devoted to the study
of Emily
Dickinson, her writing practices, writings generated by
her work, and writings directly influencing her work. The
Dickinson Editing Collective, with three general editors working
in collaboration with one another and with numerous coeditors
and users, is producing digital
resources as well as this website. The Collective believes
that print translations of her work, which erase most of her
visual poetics, make practically unimaginable that world of
Dickinson's hands-on distribution. Of particular interest
is 'Emily
Dickinson Writing a Poem' (user name:dickinson, password:
ink_on_disc). Also included here are Writings
by Susan Dickinson, Dickinson's most frequently addressed
correspondent, and Titanic
Operas, a Poet's Corner of Contemporary Responses to Dickinson's
Legacy." A site called "Virtual
Emily" -- an interesting collection of anecdotes
and photographs of Dickinson, her home, and her family. Finally,
an 1891 article in The Atlantic Monthly by Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, called "Emily
Dickinson's Letters"; and critical material on Dickinson
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP).
- HD
(Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961). A useful collection of
links at the "H.D.
Home Page" -- a site privately maintained by Heather
Hawkins, "Technical Services Librarian at the SF Maritime
Library by day and H.D. fan by night"; and critical material
on HD
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP).
- Frederick
Douglass (1817-95). The homepage for The
Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center in Rochester,
NY -- contains links to a photo gallery, a chronology of Douglass'
life, biographical material, and links to other Douglass resources;
the texts of several pamphlets
written by Douglass, at the African
American Perspectives site at The
American Memory Project; and an on line exhibit, entitled
"American
Visionaries: Frederick Douglass" -- developed by
the Museum Management Program and Frederick Douglass National
Historic Site."
- W.
E. B. DuBois (1868-1963). A good listing of W.
E. B. DuBois Resources at UMass, including the W.
E. B. DuBois Papers; and The W.E.B.
Du Bois Virtual University -- a series of pages detailing
various aspects of Du Bois studies. It is the hope of their
author, Jennifer Wager, "that the University will serve
as a clearinghouse for information on Du Bois and spur intelligent
scholarship and discussion of his life, legacy, and works."
Finally, a hypermedia version of the 1925 Survey Graphic
-- "Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro."
- T.
S. Eliot (1888-1965). "What
the Thunder Said" -- a site devoted to the works
and life of T.S. Eliot, maintained by Raymond Camden; TSE:
The Web Site -- official home page of the T. S. Eliot
discussion list; The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on T. S. Eliot, from the
PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of TSE reading);
the T.
S. Eliot page at The
American Academy of Poets site; critical material on Eliot
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and, for your delectation, here's Eliot
reading The Waste Land from the Harper
Audio site."
- Ralph
W. Ellison (1914-94). A Ralph
Ellison page at "Bohemian
Ink" -- a "literary underground review";
and an article by Gerald Early in Dissent (vol. 44,
no. 3), entitled "Decoding
Ralph Ellison."
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-82). Works,
portraits, criticism, and -- what Emerson is best at --
a long list of quotable quotes; part of a larger site on The
Transcendentalists.
- Louise
Erdrich (1954- ). Erdrich's
page at Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (UofMinn); "More
Love Medicine" -- A Minnesota Review piece on Erdrich;
an interview
with Erdrich at Salon
magazine; "Native
American Sites" -- a great list of Native American
web links from Lisa Mitten, a librarian at the University
of Pittsburg; and An
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet.
- William
Faulkner (1897-1962). William
Faulkner on the Web: includes an entrance to "Welcome
to Yoknapatawpha County," the best collection of information
on Faulkners, Compsons, De Spains, and Snopses on the web.
- Benjamin
Franklin (1706-90). Benjamin
Franklin: a "Documentary History" by J. A. Leo
Lemay -- this site provides an abundance of information on
Franklin, including a year-by-year account of Franklin's life.
Originally meant as a source for a biography of Franklin,
the project grew into a scholarly work of its own merit; and
the Franklin
Index at "From
Revolution to Reconstruction" -- A Hypertext on American
History.
- Robert
Frost (1874-1963). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Robert Frost, from the
PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a reading
of "After Apple Picking"); critical material on Frost
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and the Harper Audio site of recordings of Frost
reading his poetry."
- Sandra
Gilbert. ( - ). Gilbert's
web page at UC Davis, where she teaches.
- Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). "The
Yellow Wallpaper" site at Scribbling
Women -- "on line resources for teaching American
women's literature using dramatizations produced by The Public
Media Foundation" -- includes biography
of Gilman, and historical
& literary contexts of the story. Also a Charlotte
Perkins Gilman Page -- maintained by Kim Wells as part
of her "Domestic
Goddesses" site.
- Nikki
Giovanni (1943- ). Giovanni's
home page at Virginia Tech, where she teaches; includes a
link to an audio and video presentation of Giovanni
reading her poetry.
- Rodolfo
Gonzales (1929- ).
A picture of Rodolfo
"Corky" Gonzales from "Imagenes
Xicano," a historic collection of documentary photographs
exploring political activism during the seventies from a Chicano
perspective maintained by Jesús M. Mena Garza; and a section
on Gonzales
and his Crusade for Justice in Julian Samora and Patricia
Vandel Simon's A
History of the Mexican-American People, part of
The Julian Samora Virtual
Collection at The Julian
Samora Research Institute.
- Joel
Chandler Harris (1848-1908). A site dedicated to the man
better known as "Uncle
Remus" at the American Studies Web at UVa.
- Michael
Harper ( - ). Celebrating
Harper -- an online exhibition on the life and work of
Harper, hosted by Brown University, includes photographs,
exhibition text; a bibliography; Epistrophy:
Harper page -- part of a larger site on jazz in twentieth-century
literature (Epistrophy),
the Harper page includes selected poems and a bibliography
on Harper and music; critical material on Harper
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and Harper's
Home Page at Brown University, where he teaches.
- Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1804-64). A very full and varied site.
Contains works, biography, criticism, as well as links to
Discovery Channel productions about Hawthorne."
- Ernest
Hemingway (1899-1961). An interesting site on Hemingway
at The Cosmic
Baseball Association; the Hemingway
Resource Center; the Smithsonian Institution's exhibit, "Picturing
Hemingway: A Writer in his Time" (Sponsored by Thomasville); and "Hemingway's
Paris: A Hypertext Resource" -- complete with bios and pictures of
Papa, painters, poets, and links to clickable maps of Paris.
- Langston
Hughes (1902-67). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Langston Hughes, from
the PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a reading
of "Dream Deferred"); the Langston
Hughes page at The
American Academy of Poets site (with a reading of "The
Negro Speaks of Rivers"); critical material on Hughes
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a hypermedia version of the 1925 Survey
Graphic -- "Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro."
- Zora
Neal Hurston (1891-1960). Hurston's
page at Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (UofMinn); also,
a hypermedia version of the 1925 Survey Graphic --
"Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro."
- Harriet
Jacobs (18??-97). Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl site at Scribbling
Women -- "on line resources for teaching American
women's literature using dramatizations produced by The Public
Media Foundation" -- includes biography
of Jacobs, and historical
& literary contexts of the work.
- Henry
James (1843-1916). The
Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites: a very complete
listing of on-line texts, contemporary reviews, criticism,
teaching suggestions, and more.
- Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826). The
Jefferson Bibliography Database (UVa); Declaring
Independence -- an exhibit at the Library of Congress
about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence;
and Thomas
Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia.
Also, a series of 1998 editorials that discuss the controversy
surrounding Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Annette
Gordon-Reed (author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings)
on the "objectivity" of History and historians;
William
Safire on the contemporary political implications of "Sallygate";
Orlando
Paterson on Race, History, and what to make of the whole
shebang; and Brent
Staples, writing in 1999 that there's still no place at
the Jefference table for the Hemings clan.
- Sarah
Orne Jewett (1849-1909). A Sara
Orne Jewett Page -- maintained by Kim Wells as part of
her "Domestic
Goddesses" site.
- James
Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Johnson's
page at The
American Academy of Poets site -- with biography, criticism,
works; critical material on Johnson
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a recording of Arna Bontemps reading "The
Creation"; and a hypermedia version of the 1925 Survey
Graphic -- "Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro."
- Martin
Luther King, Jr. (1929-68). Martin
Luther King, Jr: an outstanding collection of articles,
writings, and photos dedicated to Martin Luther King at The
Seattle Times website; and the site of the Martin
Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford -- includes
biography, chronolgy, articles, and access to King's papers
on line.
- Li-Young
Lee ( - ). From W. W. Norton's Listening Booth -- a recording
of Lee reading "Persimmons"; The
Art of China: Art and Crafts -- a site that provides contexts
for "Persimmons," particularly its final images.
- Jack
London (1876-1916). The
Jack London Collection: a DL SunSITE at Berkeley -- very
complete, very extensive -- includes biography, photos, audio,
documents, links, bibliographies, and research aides.
- Bobbie
Ann Mason (1940- ). A brief biography
and teaching
resources on Bobbie Ann Mason.
- Cotton
Mather (1663-1728). The
Cotton Mather Home Page -- currently just a few works
on line available, but criticism and biography promised soon.
- Herman
Melville (1819-91). Herman
Melville: a very extensive site "dedicated to disseminating
information about Herman Melville on the Internet and the
World Wide Web." Includes criticism, works, biography,
and "breaking news."
- Cherríe
Moraga (1952- ). Moraga's
entry at Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (UofMinn); Making
Face, Making Soul -- a Chicana Feminist web site; and
La
Frontera -- a section of Border
Crossings, an "experiment in hypertextual relationships"
by Karla Tonella of the University of Iowa that explores the
common ground between Cyborgs, Gender, LesBiGay, Dispora,
La Frontera, Border Incidents and Other Borders.
- Toni
Morrison (1931- ). Anniina's
Toni Morrison Page -- housed at Luminarium,
a site primarily dedicated to Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th
Century Studies, an excellent collection of resources that
includes interviews, biographies, criticism, and information
for all of Morrison's novels, including Tar Baby, Sula,
and Song
of Solomon; and a link to an In-Depth
Interview with Morrison at C-Span
2.
- Vladimir
Nabokov (1899-1977). zembla
-- the official site of The International Nabokov Society, this well-designed and maintained site contains criticism, biography, a "nabrokonology," photos, links, and butterflies (Penn State); and speaking of butterflies -- and the "intuition of science" -- here's a 2011 New York Times article about
how Nabokov out-intuited the scientists.
- Flannery
O'Connor (1925-64). The
Comforts of Home -- "a repository of Flannery O'Connor
Information," this privately maintained site (Brian Patterson)
promises to cover all on line resources available on O'Connor;
and The
O'Connor Collection in the Russell Library, at Georgia
College & State University -- a wonderful resource for
information on O'Connor.
- Thomas
Paine (1737-1809). "The
Remains of Thomas Paine" -- part of the PBS Liberty!
Chronicle of the Revolution site, this page includes an
overview of Paine's influence and a sound and movie clip from
the documentary; Thomas
Paine -- links to numerous online Paine texts and Paine-related
sites, includes a searchable database (hosted by the Secular
Web); and the Thomas
Paine National Historical Association site -- the foremost
archive of Thomas Paine's works -- all of his texts are available
here, also includes photographs and information about the
Thomas Paine Memorial Museum.
- Américo
Paredes (1915-1999). More information on Gregorio
Cortez, from an Américo
Paredes page at a Chicano
Literature site, maintained by Patricia Portales at San
Antonio College; a link to a recording of the Corrido
de "Gregorio Cortez" Part 1 (Rocha y Martínez,
1929); and a memorial to Américo
Paredes, here at UT.
- Sylvia
Plath (1932-63). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Sylvia Plath, from the
PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a reading
of "Daddy"); critical material on Plath
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and the Sylvia
Plath page at The
American Academy of Poets site.
- Ezra
Pound (1885-1972). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Ezra Pound, from the PBS/Annenberg
Project (includes a video clip of a reading of "Canto
LXXXI"); The
Ezra Pound Home Page at the Electronic
Poetry Center (Buffalo); critical material on Pound
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and the Ezra
Pound page at The
American Academy of Poets site (with an audio clip of
"Canto I").
- Adrienne
Rich (1929- ). The Adrienne
Rich page at The
American Academy of Poets site (with an audio clip of
Rich reading "The Art of Translation"); information
on Rich
from her agent, The
Steven Barclay Agency, who also represent cultural figures
such as Robert Pinsky, Tony Kushner, and Michael Ondaatje;
critical material on Rich
and her poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a short biography
at Dia
Center for the Arts, an agency which defines itself as
"a vehicle for the realization of extraordinary artists'
projects that might not otherwise be supported by more conventional
institutions" in NYC.
- John
Sayles (1950- ). The
John Sayles Border Stop -- a site dedicated to Sayles,
contains bio, news, filmography, and links; and an interview/profile
of Sayles by ShadowCulture's
Mr. Cranky.
- Jane
Smiley ( - ). The
Adventures of Jane Smiley -- an interview with the author
from The
Atlantic (05.28.98) that deals with her criticism of Huck
Finn; and another
interview that does the same at BookPage.
- Wallace
Stevens (1879-1955). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Wallace Stevens, from
the PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a reading
of "The Snowman"); Hartford
Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens -- a site at Wesleyan
that takes its name from Hartford, Connecticut, where Stevens
worked as a vice-president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity
Company -- here you will find some of his poetry, a walking
tour, event notices, a discussion group and artwork; a very
extensive Stevens
Page by Al
Filreis at Penn; critical material on Stevens
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and the Wallace
Stevens page at The
American Academy of Poets site.
- Quentin
Tarantino (1963-
).
Everything
Tarantino is a frquently updated blog that reports
on and discusses the films of Quentin Tarantino; Quentin
Tarantino - The Independents: called "the coolest
site on the web" by Tarantino himself, it's loaded with
the most up to date information about Quentin Tarantino
and his films; The
Quentin Tarantino Archives for all things Tarantino
- a fan site with biography, detailed filmography, news,
screenplays, forum, and links; and The
Ultimate Pulp Fiction Page: the most comprehensive
Pulp Fiction page on the internet.
- Henry
David Thoreau (1817-62). A very extensive site on Thoreau
-- with biographies, works, pictures, criticism, and quotable
quotes; part of a larger site on The
Transcendentalists.
- Mark
Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens: 1835-1910). The
Mark
Twain Project Online: "Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades' worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents." Also, Mark
Twain in his Times: an "interpretive archive,
drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett
Collection (at The University of Va.), focuses on
how 'Mark Twain' and his works were created and
defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated.
The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students
and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times
said about each other, in a way that can speak to
us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and
manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and
articles, hundreds of images, and many different
kinds of interactive exhibits."
- Booker
T. Washington (1856-1915). A short biography of Washington
at the African
American Perspectives site at The
American Memory Project; another short
bio at a site dedicated to African
American Pioneers -- part of African
Genesis Presents African American History; the home page
of Tuskegee
University, founded by Washington; and a Booker
T. Washington Home Page, privately maintained by James
Brownlee at Miss. State.
- Edith
Wharton (1862-1937). Edith
Wharton's World: "Portraits of People and Places"
is an exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery that gives
an illustrated history of Wharton's life, including brief
summaries of the people she knew and the places she visited;
the home page of The
Edith Wharton Society (at Gonzaga) -- well-maintained
with a useful set of links; and an Edith
Wharton Page -- maintained by Kim Wells as part of her
"Domestic
Goddesses" site.
- Phillis
Wheatley (1753?-84). Wheatley's
page at Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (UofMinn); a short
Wheatley
entry at the Early
American Review: A Journal
of People, Issues, and Events in 18th Century America --
part of the site, Archiving
Early America.
- Walt
Whitman 1819-92). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on Walt Whitman, from the
PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a reading
of "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"); critical
material on Whitman
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); an exhibit entitled, "Poet
at Work: Recovered Notebooks of the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt
Whitman Collection," with scanned images of the poet's
notebooks from ca. 1862 -- part of the Library of Congress'
American
Memory Project; and The
Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive at UVa, "a hypermedia
environment for studying the works of the nineteenth-century
American poet Walt Whitman. The archive is a structured database
holding digitized images of Whitman's works in their original
documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early printed
texts -- including proofs and first editions -- are stored
in the archive, in full color when possible, and available
as needed. The materials are marked up for electronic search
and analysis, and they are supplied with full scholarly annotations
and notes."
- William
Carlos Williams (1883-1963). The
Voices and Visions Spotlight on William Carlos Williams,
from the PBS/Annenberg Project (includes a video clip of a
reading of "The Great Figure"); interesting and
insightful annotations on some of Williams's poetry and short
stories at New
York University School of Medicine's Literature, Arts, and
Medicine Database; critical material on Williams
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and the William
Carlos Williams page at The
American Academy of Poets site.
- John
Winthrop (1588-1649). From a collection of Winthrop's
manuscripts presented at the "A City on a Hill"
(Mt 5:17) Symposium held in Washington UBF, November 1995.
An interesting view of Winthrop by Dr. Joseph Shafer.
- James
Wright (1927-80). The James
Wright page at The
American Academy of Poets site; and critical material
on Wright
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP).
- Richard
Wright (1908-60). A site dedicated to Wright's novel,
Black
Boy, at PBS.org;
a Richard
Wright Webpage, maintained by Richard Hancuff at George
Washington University; critical material on Wright
and his poetry at the
Modern American Poetry site: an online journal and multimedia
companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford UP); and a page on Wright
at The
Mississippi Writers Page, "an Internest Resource
Guide to Mississippi Writers" at Ole Miss.
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