General

Outline of American Literature – from the beginnings to contemporary writings
American Literature on the Web – a list of comprehensive web sites
Timeline of American Literature – check 1800–1850
An Outline of American History – extensive and well-informed

Related
The End of Solitude – With Romanticism, solitude became both literal and literary

Authors

W. Irving
Washington Irving – E-texts, biographies, and plenty of links.
Perspectives in American Literature: Irving – selected bibliography
Heath Anthology Introduction

E. A. Poe
Edgar Allan Poe – E-texts, biographies, and plenty of links.
Poe Webliography – extensive and thoroughly annotated guide to Poe resources on the Web, including E-texts and links to other sites.
PoeStories.com – hypertexts, vocabulary, links, biography, timeline
Hear Basil Rathbone's rendition of "The Raven"
Listen to Elizabeth Blair's report on "The Raven" at npr.org
"The Fall of the House of Usher" – annotaded hypertext
House of Usher – trailer of the 1960 movie with Vincent Price
Vincent Price reads "The Cask of Amontillado"
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe – illustrated by W. Heath Robinson

N. Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne – E-texts, biographies, and plenty of links.
Nathaniel Hawthorne – a good collection of E-texts and information on the life.

H. Melville
The Life and Works of Herman Melville – news, brief biographies and bibliographies, E-texts, and reviews.
Bartleby the Scrivener, An Interactive Version – hypertext version of the story. Another commented version.
Melville On-line – index with links to many texts.
Literary Criticism on Melville – links to full articles
Selected Bibliography – extensive list of secondary materials on "Bartleby."
So You're a Nowhere Man in a Nowhere World, Now Get Back to Work – a NYT film review

E. Dickinson
Dickinson Electronic Archives – an extensive and scholarly collection of Dickinson resources
Guidelines for Reading Dickinson's Poetry
"Because I could not stop for Death" read at YouTube

Updated 29-may-09

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