English and Creative Writing

"Discovering Literature brings to life the social, political and cultural context in which key works of literature were written. Enjoy digitised treasures from our collection, newly commissioned articles, short documentary films and teachers’ notes."

IPL has created this resource of starting places to research critical writing for literature written or translated into English.

This links to the digital collections of the Library of Congress that are related to Literature & Poetry.

For Better for Verse is "an interactive on-line tutorial that can train you to scan traditionally metered English poetry. Here you can get practice and instant feedback in one important way of analyzing, and developing an ear and a feel for, accentual-syllabic verse."

"Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture."