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SUMMER READING LINKS

For the study sheet and assignments for summer reading, click here.
For the online comment walls for each novel, click on the images below.
Frankenstein
The Stranger
Canterbury Tales


INTRODUCTORY TEXTS

"The Dancing Mind" by Toni Morrison
"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
"How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler
 
 Photo by Eko @ Flickr        


Classical Allusions Study

Encylopedia Mythica
Mythweb
Classical Myth: Ancient Sources
Wikipedia List of Greek Mythological Figures
Bulfinche's Mythology
Myth Dictionary
InfoPlease on Norse Myth
Arthurian Legend    
Britannia History- King Arthur
InfoPlease on Biblical Names
Wikimedia, List of Biblical Figures
 
 Photo by Giorgios @ Flickr        



Poetry

Poetry Foundation
     see the app available for smartphones and tablets
Poetry 180 -- A poem for every day of the school year and more!
Poet Laureate of the United States | Library of Congress
Modern American Poetry
Poetry Out Loud
Favorite Poem Project
Representative Poetry Online | U of Toronto
Internet Poetry Archive - 7 poets
How to Explicate a Poem | U of NC at CH
Poetry Forms | Poets.org

Villanelle
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Sestina
Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop

Ballad
Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
The Tale of Custard Dragon by Ogden Nash
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooksl

Ode
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
Ode to the Confederate Dead by Allen Tate

Elegy
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 27 By Alfred, Lord Tennyson


 

Literature of the Medieval Period

The Middle Ages | Annenberg Interactive
Anthology of Middle English Literature | Luminarium
Canterbury Tales | ELF
Canterbury Tales | Harvard

Chaucer: Father of English Poetry | AP Central
Canterbury Tales with Side-by-Side Translation
Canterbury Tales with Choice of Translation
Digital Images of Caxton Version of Canterbury Tales
Digital Images of Ellesmere Version of Canterbury Tales
Illustrations of Canterbury Pilgrims (based on Ellesmere MS) | Harvard
Pitt Purchase Facsimile of Ellesmere MS of Canterbury Tales | Post-Gazette

Everyman | Luminarium
Everyman eText | U of Virginia
"Parable of Talents" (Related to Everyman's reckoning) Mathew 25:14-30 
eText of Everyman with Updated Spelling (Medieval Sourcebook - Fordham U)
Related Medieval Motif:  Dance of Death
Commentary on Iron Maiden's Use of the  Dance of Death Motif
Dance of Death Exhibition | U of Glasgow




eText Sir Gawain & Green Knight | Project Gutenberg
Sir Gawain & Green Knight--Details
Medieval Life
Chivalric Ideals
Knight's Code of Chivalry
Chivalry & Courtly Love
Code of Chivalry & Rules of Courtly Love
Chivalric Resources
Article on the Pentangle--(Personal Webpage but Documented Info)
Sir Gawain--Study Questions to Consider (Cal. Polytechnic State U)
Sir Gawain--A Scholar's Notes (U of Central AR)
King Arthur History & Legend--Lots of Links
King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table

Middle English Pronunciation Tutorial
Canterbury Tales Interactive Site from Weekly Reader

Dante's Inferno with Choice of Translation

Literature of Ancient Greece
  
    Introduction to Greek Drama 
    etext Oedipus Rex 
    The Riddle of the Grecian Sphinx
    Myth of Teiresias
    Sophocles
    Ancient Greek Theater Plan 
    Ancient Athens
    Ancient Delphi 
    National Geographic: Oracle of Delphi
    Oedipus Tyrannos Self Quiz Game--A Great Review  
    World Factbook: Greece

Literature of English Renaissance

    Mr. William Shakespeare & the Internet (Palomar U) 
    Shakespeare Resource Center   
    Internet Shakespeare (U of Victoria)
    Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Website
    eText Paradise Lost (Hypertext annotated version)

    John Milton
    Iconography of Paradise Lost (Illustrations Inspired by the Epic) 
 
    Amelia Lanyer 
    "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" (scroll down to lines 777 - 808)
    Explication of "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"
 

Literature of Neoclassicism and Romanticism


    eText Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    Rime of the Ancient Mariner--Gustave Doré Illustrations
 
   eText to Frankenstein
   National Library of Medicine Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
   Resources for the Study of Frankenstein (Georgetown U, page available through archive.org)   
   More Great Topics of Interest on Frankenstein (IUPUI) 
  Literary References to Frankenstein


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