English

Writing Essays for Literature Classes

• Writing an Essay on a Work of Fiction
• Writing a Poetry Explication 

Literary Criticism and Books Online

• Online Literary Criticism Collection: A place to look for online criticism. Searchable by title and author. From the Internet Public Library.
• Literary sources on the Web: This is an excellent page to find useful literary Web pages - from syllabi to general overviews on literary periods to pages on individual works and authors.
• The Gutenberg Project: The most comprehensive list of books online. Search for books by author or title. The number of books you can find is pretty amazing.
• Heath Guide to the Study of American Literature: This contains some reliable basic information on a large number of American authors and works. It will be especially useful to future high school teachers because it provides excellent teaching advice.