This is a biographical profile of the 18th century Irish-English poet and playwright, Oliver Goldsmith, whose poems such as "The Deserted Village" and plays such as "She Stoops to Conquer" are considered masterpieces.

This is a fairly comprehensive site produced by college students. It includes a biography of Herbert, an example of his work, and an annotated bibliography.

This scholarly site analyzes Herbert's work and compares it to the writings of several of his contemporaries. Viewers should note that there are four separate pages about Herbert, linked at the bottom of each page.

This is a very comprehensive site, a complete collection of Marvell's works and several critical essays, in additon to biographical material.

This lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism, focuses on the poet William Butler Yeats. It provides links to hit biography, a virtual tour of Yeats' life and works, and two poems. Students are asked to respond to two questions...

The entire text of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes with a summary introduction of the play. With links to other Shakespearean plays, sonnets, biographies, poems, and more.

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

From the full text of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poem "Lines Written a Few Miles bove Tintern Abbey." Annotated.

Here, under the Chronologic Index of Authors, are links to three of Lamb's poems, near the bottom of the page.

This full-text of Charles Lamb's enchanting 1811 narrative poem is illustrated with period drawings from the original edition.

Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder" is presented and the author asks the reader to identify the poetic variations in meter and rhyme in this poem. Good exercise.

This resource provides the text to John Donne's poem "The Bait".

This site gives a brief overview of Alexander Pope's life. It includes links to two pictures of him--one as a child and one as an adult.

This site provides a biography of Alexander Pope including detailed information about Pope's life and literary career. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of...

The Digital Library provides links to the texts of seven of Edward Fitzgerald's works.

A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.

Annotated full text of Peacock's story "The Round Table; or King Arthur's Feast."

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 resource discusses four controversies that concerned the Victorians: evolution, industrialism, what the Victorians called "The Woman Question," and Great Britain's identity as an imperial power. Includes multiple-choice quiz and...

The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...

This 1999 New Criterion essay examines the decline of Eliot's stature in academia and the culture in general due in part to the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Harold Bloom, and Eliot's biographers.

The Digital Library provides links to the texts of 11 of Thomas Carlyle's works.

This resource provides a paper written by Dr. Charles Urbanowicz, anthropologist at California State University. It deals extensively with the life and death of Charles Darwin, his research, and the publication of his book, "The Origin...

This site provides the text of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin" by Charles Darwin.