Gale's Literary Index
http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
The complete index of Gale's Literary Criticism series. Searchable by author & title.

Infomotions
http://www.infomotions.com
Includes the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
The Library of literature includes full text of poems, short stories, essays, novels, and plays in a variety of languages.

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Shakespeare

Shakespeare Resource Center
http://www.bardweb.net
The Bard's Home. This site includes a biography, globe theatre information, discussion on authorship questions as well as life in Elizabethan England.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/
You will find a timeline, genealogy, information on the Globe theatre, costumes and the Renaissance. It's a great site with lots of links.

Shakespeare's Complete Works
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
The complete works of Shakespeare online plus links to other Shakespeare resources, a Shakespeare chronology, a Shakespeare discussion area, a word search option, and a glossary.

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Renaissance

Virtual Renaissance
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
Scroll down to Ye Olde Transporter. This is a terrific web site that is interactive and informative on the Renaissance with lots of information on art, daily life, architecture, and science as well as the chronology during the Renaissance. Find yourself transported to the Renaissance.

Life in Elizabethan England
http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html
Links to food, marriage, dueling and daily life.

Renaissance Online Exhibit
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
The Renaissance Online Exhibit offers a great overview of what was going on in the world during the 14th - 16th centuries. Offers links for further study.

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Middle Ages

Middle Ages
http://www.themiddleages.net/index.html#index
Middle Ages: Find information on weapons, games, and the plague.

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Costumes

Costumes
http://www.costumes.org/index.html
This website offers links to various costuming sites arranged chronologically. A great site to get info for those reports on clothing of a time period!

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Mythology

Greek Mythology
http://www.mythweb.com/

Digital Librarian Mythology
http://www.digital-librarian.com/mythology.html

Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Other Characters of Mythology
http://www.bulfinch.org/
http://mcreynoldsms.org/mythology.htm
These sites contains brief information in general and list good mythology links to help you find more information.

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Poetry

American Verse Project-Texts
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press, is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920.

Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
Excellent collection of the great poets of the English language, courtesy of Ian Lancashire. Poetry has been selected with editorial comments by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to 1996. Included is an extensive collection of criticism, both in verse and prose forms. The works are indexed by poet, title, date, keyword and first line.

British Poetry 1780-1910
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions Electronic Text Center. This project invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1900.

Poetry
http://eserver.org/poetry/
A collection of links to poetry, organized according to the poet’s names. Includes a set of links to essays and humor.

Bartleby Library of Columbia University
http://www.bartleby.com/verse
A nice collection of famous poets and authors from America and Great Britain, along with special collections prepared from the Columbia University resources.

The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/

American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
This is an electronic archive of approximately 175 volumes of American poetic verse published prior to 1920. Search features include: Simple, Proximity, Boolean, plus a Word Index. These texts may be copied freely by individuals for personal use, research, and teaching (including distribution to classes) as long as their statement of availability is including in the text.

Poetry Daily
http://www.poems.com/
This site provides a new contemporary poem, some for mature readers, for every day of the year. They are arranged in a continuous timeline index. A brief biographical sketch of each poet is included as a link at the end of the poem, along with a link to the publisher of the original printed source of the poem.

Favorite Poem Project
http://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/
Created by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, this collection of 50 short video documentaries show case individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love. The texts of the poems are included. Many of the videos are quite moving, and are highly engaging.

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Specific Authors

John Steinbeck: The California Novels
http://www.wwu.edu/%7estephan/Steinbeck/index.html
This link lets you take a close look at Steinbeck's works set in California and gives you a list of other Steinbeck web pages to check out.

The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
Search and browse this site devoted to Jack London, which offers a collection of full-text writing, correspondence, postcard, telegrams, manuscripts, official documents and photographs relating to the California author. Includes a brief biography, bibliographies, and research aid. Publisher: University of California, Berkeley.