The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.

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

At this website, read the full text of George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Included is a brief paragraph intoducing the book, its context, and its plot.

This is the full text of Last Poems by the English poet A. E. Housman.

An online copy in plain text format of Kipling's work, easy to search and to use with online text readers.

Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with notes.

Text of the short story "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.

This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.

This Nagoya University site provides the text to Robert Louis Stevenson's ghost story "The Body-Snatcher." Provides other interesting Victorian ghost stories at this site also.

The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.

Brief biography of English writer and critic Samuel Johnson, including personal background, career information and important works.

Biography of English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, including personal background and history as a writer.

Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.

This teacher's guide to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is written to help students who are reading this book for class work.

Come to a party honoring Ebenezer Scrooge! This WebQuest is a complete "Party in a box," -- with a planning worksheet, specific tasks and roles, rubrics for evaluation and guidelines for presentation and party-going.

The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...

Read the full text of "When Doctors Disagree" by P.G. Wodehouse on this site.

A collection of sonnets written by John Keats: "On the Sonnet," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again," and others.

The whole text of the famous novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, taken from the second edition, formatted for online reading.

The full text of An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope available in multiple formats.

Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, young scholars create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

This is the complete text of the fairy tale novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.

This is the complete text of the novel Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.