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As part of the larger, award-winning Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature, this Web site is the creation of a student who, during the dark ages of the Internet, had problems finding a centralized location for literary resources. The result is a diverse collection of writings from the likes of Henry VIII, Hugh Latimer, and father of the English sonnet, Sir Thomas Wyatt. Entries for each author include a biography and a list of works (with links to full-text access).
Established by the University of Victoria in 1996, the mission of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) site is to provide students, scholars, and actors access to high-quality information on William Shakespeare, his world, and his works. This site includes four major components: the foyer, the library, the theater, and the annex. The plays and poems section offers users an easily searchable database of Shakespeare’s plays and poetry, from All’s Well That Ends Well to Venus and Adonis. Of interest to theater students is the Shakespeare in Performance database, which contains a wealth of performance materials from hundreds of film and stage productions, including press clippings, scripts, and production notes.
For six years, storySouth’s mission has been “to showcase the best fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that writers from the new south have to offer.” Its aim is to inform the world that, like the new South, the writing of the “21st century south is a mix of traditional and new, regional and international.” The website design is simple and clean, something on which they pride themselves. Visitors can just sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy a good read by perusing the new offerings in the “Poetry”, “Fiction”, and “Nonfiction” sections found on the homepage. The “News” section of the site, which is on the right hand side of the page, includes book reviews and mp3 recordings of fiction and poetry readings. Visitors interested in submitting work can click on “guidelines” on the right side of the page to get information on submission periods, author’s rights, the site’s rights, and technical details. The Million Writer’s Award, established by the founder of the site, is given each year to the best short story published online. Details about the award can be found in the lower right hand corner of the homepage.
Access: http://www.storysouth.com/
Walt Whitman always reads well, but on this site he also sounds and looks quite well. The Mickle Street Review brings together audio clips, video recordings, and written scholarship on and about Whitman and the broader world of American Studies. The Review was first published in 1979 and it is based at Rutgers University in Camden. Visitors to the site can browse all of the back issues of the Review, and they can also view the current issue as well. On the homepage, visitors will find the works divided into categories such as “Documents”, “Features”, and “Essays”. One of the more fantastic additions to their site is the digital version of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, which contains a close reading of the text along with a downloadable Brooklyn walking tour by Jesse Merandy. Moving on, the “Listening Room” contains recordings of Leaves of Grass read by Ralph Bellamy and a version of Song of Myself read by Orson Welles. Finally, the “Viewing Room” contains various adaptations and creative visions of Whitman’s works and explorations of his life.
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The latest edition of eJournal USA focuses on distinguished American writers from various ethnic backgrounds who add immeasurably to mutual understanding and appreciation through tales of their native lands and their experiences as Americans.
