English Literature

This is a collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

From Library & Archives Canada. Features selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets. Digitized from public domain anthologies found in the National Library of Canada, the poems represent some of Canada's most notable poetry from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Facsimiles incorporate new, much higher resolution images of all 70 folios, over 130 ultraviolet images, and over 750 newly processed backlit images of the more than 1300 that reveal the hundreds of letters covered on the versos by the nineteenth-century restoration frames.

From the University of Toronto, it includes 4,700 English poems by 723 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.

A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet

The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University.

A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. From the University of Pennsylvania.

Develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning.

Includes Blake's works (searchable by text and image), biographical information, further resources and more.

A guide on using internet search engines, with a section on using Google Scholar and setting it to recognize you as a Trent student.

A guide on determining the reliability and scholarship of websites, Trent University Library & Archives.