Literature Internet Resources
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- Electronic Text Center at the University of VA's Library
Provides thousands of on- and off-line humanities texts in many languages (including Chinese and Japanese literature).
Also includes thousands of images (book illustrations, covers etc.). - Gale Literary Index
Index to the Gale Literary Series available in print in the DCCC Library's Literature Reference Section. - A Glossary of Literary Terms
Provides a helpful list of literary terms. - A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices. - Modern American Poets
Short critical articles, biographies, and career overviews. - Poetry Foundation
An excellent resource for poems in full-text and articles about poetry. - Poetry (Library of Congress)
Sponsored by the Library of Congress, this site has poems and other resources related to poetry. - Poetry Magazine Online
Poetry Magazine online provides access to selected works and a “Featured Poet” that changes monthly. - Poetry Out Loud
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, this site contains a variety of full-text poems and audio files of poems read by famous actors and writers. - Poets.org
From the Academy of American Poets, this site contains poems in full-text and information about poets. - Representative Poetry Online
Contains approximately 3100 poems with a complete index of all the poems included on this site. There is also a glossary of terms.