This started out as a Google Doc for personal use, but I might as well share it with you since the internet is awesome and chances are there are other lit freaks like me out there! + Masterposts are the best
Beginners (old but gold tbh)
Sparknotes
Cliffnotes
ThugNotes
CrashCourse
Novel Guide
Shmoop
Grade Saver (I’ve found some rare XVIII century plays explained here!)
English 101 (English lit)
English 102 (American lit)
Tips to Analyze, Write, Interpret literature (College level):
English 103: Analyzing and Interpreting Lit.
Literary Analysis Guide - Goshen College
Literary Analysis: Using Elements of Literature
HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY
How to Write an Analysis of Theme — Teaching College English
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature | CLEP
How I Plan and Write Literature Papers by notaperfectstudent
Very Useful (misc.)
CRITICAL THEORY: Introduction to Literature
Literary Theory Links
Voice of the Shuttle (great humanities research page)
Warwick English Page (bunch of links, exams, essays, etc…)
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Archive: Articles and Essays
Online Lectures
Terry Eagleton: “The Death of Criticism?” - UC Berkeley Events
Modernism Undone: T.S. Eliot’s Literary Revolution
A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” (Lecture by Thomas Howard, Professor Emeritus, Gordon College)
Arts One Open: on The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (Lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme)
Introduction to Literary Theory - Yale
Harold Bloom on Shakespeare - Yale
Harold Bloom on Walt Whitman
Noam Chomsky on Linguistics
Keio Linguistic Colloquium SYNTAX SESSION Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT)
Open Courses
ENGL 291: THE AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1945 - Yale
ENGL 220: MILTON - Yale
AMST 246: HEMINGWAY, FITZGERALD, FAULKNER - Yale
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World - U- of Michigan (took this, it’s great! Course starts October 2015)
MODERN POETRY - Yale
The Fiction of Relationship - Brown (no open sessions rn but I took this and it is also great, so stay tune for when the course re-opens)
Victorian Era
Literary Genre, Mode, and Style during the Victorian Era (so many sources, essays and papers!! <3)
Nostalgia and the Victorian Novel
Getting On C.19th Lit
Landscape
Tess and Wuthering Heights
Female Relationships
Foreign Spaces
Romanticism
The Romanticism Blog (posts concerning scholars and students, here you will find great ideas for essays!)
The Romantics: Nature (bbc doc)
The Romantics: Eternity (bbc doc)
The Romantics: Liberty (bbc doc)
Lord Byron (bbc doc)
Romantic Circles
Romantic Chronology http://www.english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/ The Voice of the Shuttle, Romanticism pages http://vos.ucsb.edu/ –> literature (in English)–> Romantics–> a wealth of links to many resources
The XVIII Century
Skin as Surface in Swift and Pope
Public Opinion in Swift and Gay
The Female Body in Swift and Pope
Bawdiness in Cleland and Sterne
Voyeurism in Cleland
Narrative and Progress in Tristram Shandy
Shakespeare
Reading Shakespeare’s Play
Introduction to Shakespeare’s life and works
Featured Essays and Book Excerpts on Shakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare Mag: Education and resources
Introduction to Shakespeare (so many links!):
Humanist Grammar School
Comedy
Problems with Shakespeare’s Texts
Shakespearean Verse and Prose
Dramatic Plot Structure
Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices
The Histories
Tragedy
Revenge Tragedy
Establishing the Text of Hamlet
The Romances
Blackfriars Theater and Audience Expectations
Hamlet performed by BATHS (for me this is a great representation tbh!)
Synopses of Shakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare Resource Center
The Shakespeare Authorship Page
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Robert Teeter’s Shakespeare Links
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Virtual Tour
Interactive Globe Theatre
Shakespeare Timeline
The Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare Illustrated (Emory University)
Steven Marx’s “Triangulating Shakespeare”
“But I have that within that passes show”: Hamlet’s Soliloquies as an Expression of Shakespeare’s Loss and Transformation (essay)
Medieval
Medieval English Studies A GUIDE TO MIDDLE ENGLISH
Translatio studii et imperii
Medieval Attitudes toward Vernacular Literature
Courtly Love
Medieval Allegory
The Alliterative Revival
The Three Medieval Estates
Arthurian literature
Arthurian Studies Links & Essays
Arthurian Resources (Thomas Green)
Arthurian Links (Thomas Green)
Labyrinth Arthurian Links
The Camelot Project (Medieval to modern texts and images)
King Arthur links (Medieval History site)
Britannia Arthurian Links
Holy Grail links (Mary Weidenhaft)
Women of the Arthurian Legend (Camelot Project–modern)
Arthuriana (International Arthurian Society journal)
Arthurnet (Listserve)
A scholarly discussion list for King Arthur
Arthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies
Princeton Charrette Project (Manuscript images of Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot romance)
Yale MS 229, Prose Lancelot (Illuminated manuscript images)
The Camelot Project Artists Menu (modern)
Poetry
Essay writing tips for poetry
Poetry Foundation: Lectures
Essays on Poetic Theory
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
The American Poetry Full-Text Database
English Verse Drama: the Full-Text Database
The English Poetry Full-Text Database
Online Exams
Romantics Exam
Eighteenth Century Literature Final here
Medieval to Renaissance English Literature Examen (Warwick)
SHAKESPEARE: END-OF-SEMESTER EXAM “A MOST LAMENTABLE COMEDY”
