Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze an Essay (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Literary Essays' Inclusion of Personal Opinions and Facts
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.
Pennsylvania State University
Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism" [Pdf]
Pope's entire "Essay on Criticism" is available at this site in .pdf format.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Introduction to Writing About Literature
This is an introduction to writing about literature; it includes a list of learning objectives for writing about literature including finding and using historical sources to discuss the historical context, finding and using literary...
Other
Emily Dickinson: Early Feminist Essays (Pub. 1886 1915)
This is an eclectic mix of Dickinson's letters, some early essays about her writing, and remembrances of her by friends and family. The texts of 32 of her poems are annotated with references to other Dickinson writings. The entire site...
Other
Essays and Reviews: Mourning for Hokujurosen: Poem by Yosa Buson
This poem is followed by a brief commentary. The writer explains images in the poem, and some of Buson's philosophical beliefs which affected the poem.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore has created one of the more thorough websites on Poe. It presents many essays on his life and various aspects of his works, as well as the texts of most of Poe's writings, including his poetry,...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Mona Van Duyn
In addition to biographical notes about Van Duyn, this site has four essays about her poetry, one by Van Duyn.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Pinsky
A collection of interviews with Robert Pinsky, articles and speeches by him, and essays about his work.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Charles Reznikoff Modern American Poetry Links
This site provides links to information regarding Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976 CE). Information linked includes biographical essays and interviews with the poet.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American poetry:(h.d.)hilda Doolittle (1886 1961)
The Modern American Poetry site features an essay about H. D.?s (1886-1961 CE) life and career, selected criticism, and links to related sites.
University of Pennsylvania
Dreiser Web Source
At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.
Other
C. P. Snow/" 'The Two Cultures' Today"/commentary
This article appeared in "The New Criterion Online," and addresses not only Snow's book but also the feud between Snow and F. R. Leavis. It provides a helpful overview of Snow's thinking and stature in the literary and scientific worlds.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Works of Matthew Arnold
This site from The Victorian Web includes a complete list of the works of Matthew Arnold, with links to related essays and sometimes to the texts themselves.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Alexander Pope
A biography of Pope is interspersed with exerpts from his works. This includes "The Rape of the Lock" and "An Essay on Criticism." Also gives some information on literary theory.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Modeling Academic Writing
Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe Studies: Unamuno and Poe
A translation of Unamuno's essay about Edgar Allan Poe argues against weighting the biographical facts about a writer's life too heavily in any work of literary criticism.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: The Grapes of Wrath
A Library of Congress lesson on "The Grapes of Wrath," through which students discover how cultural artifacts from the book support its themes and see connections "between the social, cultural, and literary contexts of literature."
Other
The Poe Decoder: "Fall of the House of Usher"
Site from The Poe Decoder offers a link to the complete text of "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, along with criticisms and essays about themes, imagery, character analysis and more.
Curated OER
Dreiser Web Source
At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.
Curated OER
Brochure Front
At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.
Curated OER
Brochure Back
At this website, read full-texts of Dresier's "Sister Carrie," essays, and literary criticism. Also includes letters, images, and a silent film.