Provides phonetic examples of all varieties of English language accents from both native and non-native speakers around the globe.

Provides up-to-date news on English and Grammar as used in today's world.

When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years.

Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library. It’s a research tool that allows students, educators, and scholars to use the text of Shakespeare’s plays to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them—line by line. Users simply click next to any line of text in a play and relevant articles from the JSTOR archive immediately load.

Allows for searching and online access to fiction, non-fiction, verse, quotations, encyclopedias, and dictionaries.

An extensive library of reference books, biographies, classic non-fiction and religious texts.

The complete works of William Shakespeare online.

Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information.

A discovery service for Open Access monographs

Primary resources for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture.

"This guide is intended to help readers identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase." - Library of Congress

Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free.

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

Listing over 2 million free books on the Web

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

Open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine.

Whichbook enables millions of combinations of factors and then suggests books which most closely match your needs.

Search millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses within the humanities.

This compilation is part of Lyle H. Wright's three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Produced by The Poetry Foundation.
"The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary
organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience."

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

Contains a database of words, terms, names, and acronyms.

Wordnik is the world's biggest online English dictionary, by number of words.

Dynamic, continuously updated digital Encyclopedias - by scholars, for scholars - in over twenty disciplines, including Linguistics.

Dynamic, continuously updated digital Encyclopedias - by scholars, for scholars - in over twenty disciplines, including Literature.

More than 3.5 million digitized books stretching back two centuries have been processed using the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph, and are now available in Google BigQuery.

Search the open web for scholarly articles. Access to some full-text articles may not be available except through Miller Library databases. Ask-a-Librarian to assist you.

The Metaphor Map of English shows the metaphorical links which have been identified between different areas of meaning. These links can be from the Anglo-Saxon period right up to the present day so the map covers 1300 years of the English language.

Welcome to the Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, a block from the US Capitol. Home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of scholars, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.

A collection of publicly available literature & language online resources selected by Library of Congress staff.

This download allows researchers to analyze trends within millions of digitized books.