Click on a scene to read that part of the Shakespearean comedy, As You Like It. This full text of As You Like It was taken from The Oxford Shakespeare.

Site provides links to a wide variety of reference tools, including encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, quotation books, and guides to English usage. L.11-12.1b Usage issues

Bartleby provides the full text for the following poems: "The Retreat", "Peace", "The Timber", and "Friends Departed".

Bartleby.com provides the full text to Robert's Rules of Order Revised (published 1915). The content is indexed by section.

Describes the beginnings of American poetry, beginning with a publication in 1610. Click through the 18 sections to get the full picture. Extracted from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Discussion of the earliest poetry in Colonial New England. Describes common themes and forms and identifies specific poets of the period.

Here is Shakespeare's comedy, The Comedy of Errors, as it appeares in The Oxford Shakespeare. Choose the scene you want to read.

Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. This is the starting point for selecting poems chronologically by title index or alphabetically by first line.

Contains full text of "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," as appears in "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature." Explains how Donne broke the Petrarchian poetic style.

Describes the themes and writing style of early New England historians. Clicking on the names at the bottom of each page will take you to information about individual historians.

A survey of the Quaker writers from the Colonial period extracted from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

A discussion of Thomas Campion's literary criticism from the Elizabethan period. From the Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Detailed biography of John Colet, a famous scholar during the Reformation whose ideas influenced the movements of his day.

Review the text George Washington's first inaugural address given on April 30, 1789. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts

Electronic text of Thomas Palgrave's book, "The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language". There are several ways to find the poem that you want to study: by author, by title, by first line, and by chronology. Excellent resource.

Excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature," this site places Donne amidst Elizabethan poets of his era and defines Donne apart from them.

Traces Donne's progress and success as a 17th century poet. Full text excerpt taken from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature."

This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry is part two in a discussion of the life and work of John Skelton leading up to his poem "Phyllyp Sparowe."

First section of a longer discussion on the Age of Johnson. Taken from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes information of regionalism in poetry located in section X 'Later Poets'. Check out 1.Poets of East and West 5. The Middle States and 12. The West.