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Online Drama of Literary Merit
Aeschylus
(c. 523-456 B.C.), Biography; Agamemnon;
Eumenides; Libation Bearers;
Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against
Thebes; Suppliant Women.
Edward
Albee (1928- ), Biography;
Amira Baraka
(1934- ), Biography;
Samuel
Beckett (1906-1989), Biography;
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904), Biography;
William
Congreve (1670-1729),
Oliver
Goldsmith (1728-1774), The Vicar of Wakefield;
The Deserted Village; She Stoops to Conquer.
Lorraine
Hansberry (1930-1965) , A Raisin
in the Sun; American scenes - collection of essays about
A Raisin in the Sun.
Lillian
Hellman (1905- ), Biography;
David Henry
Hwang (1957- ), An interview
with David Henry Hwang.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Biography;
Peer Gyn, 1875.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637), Bartholomew
Fair; Catiline;Every Man in His Humor;Sejanus; Volpone
or The Fox.
Arthur Miller (1915- ), Echoes
Down the Corridor, an Essay by Arthur Miller.
Moliere,
Sean O'Casey,
Eugene O'Neill,
Harold Pinter (1930- ), Biography;
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Biography;
Shakespeare's Comedies -
Shakespeare's Histories -
Shakespeare's Tragedies -
Bernard Shaw, Man
and Superman; The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, 1910;
Pygmalion, 1916; Major Barbara, 1905; Mrs. Warren's
Profession, 1894.
Sam Shepard,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
Sophocles, Ajax;Antigone;
Electra;Oedipus Trilogy; Philoctetes;The Trachiniae.
Tom Stoppard,
Luis Valdez,
Oscar Wilde,
Tennesse Williams (1911- ), Biography;
August Wilson,
Online Expository Writing of Literary Merit
Joseph Addison,
Gloria Anzaldua,
Matthew Arnold,
James Baldwin
James Boswell,
Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics.
Jesus Colon,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected
Works and Commentary; Self-Reliance;The
American Scholar; The Conduct of Life;
Essays: First Series (1841); Essays: Second Series;
The Method of Nature; Representative Man;
The Young American; Divinity School Address;
Man The Reformer; Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849).
William Hazlitt,
Samuel Johnson,
Charles Lamb,
Norman Mailer,
Mary McCarthy,
H. L. Mencken,
John Stuart Mill,
George Orwell; Politics
and the English Language.
Richard Steele,
Lewis Thomas,
Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod; Civil
Disobedience;Life Without Principle; The Maine Woods;
Slavery in Massachusetts; Walden;Walking;A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers.
Barbara Tuchman,
Virginia Woolf,
Chinua Achebe,
Kingsley Amis,
Rudolfo Anaya,
Margaret Atwood,
Jane Austen, Emma;
Mansfield Park, 1814; Northanger Abbey, 1803;
Persuasion, 1818; Pride and Prejudice, 1813;
Lady Susan; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.
James Baldwin,
Saul Bellow,
Emily Bronte, Wuthering
Heights.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane
Eyre, 1846.
Raymond Carver,
Willa Cather, My
Antonia; One of Ours (1923
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Sandra Cisneros,
John Cheever,
Kate Chopin, The
Awakening.
Collette,
Joseph Conrad, Lord
Jim; Nostromo;The Secret Agent;
Heart of Darkness; The Secret Sharer; The
Arrow of Gold; The Rover.
Stephan Crane, Maggie,
A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage.
Anita Desai,
Charles Dickens, American
Notes; Barnaby Rudge; Bleak House;
A Tale of Two Cities; A Christmas Carol;
Dombey and Son; Great Expectations;
Hard Times; Little Dorrit; The Pickwick
Papers; David Copperfield; The Old Curiosity Shop;
Our Mutual Friend; Oliver Twist; The Uncommercial
Traveller.
George Eliot, Mill
on the Floss ; Middlemarch.
Ralph Ellison,
Louise
Erdich,
William
Faulkner,
Henry Fielding, Tom
Jones, 1749.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This
Side of Paradise.
Ford Maddox Ford,
E. M. Forster,
Thomas Hardy, Tess
of the d'Urbervilles; Far From the Madding Crowd;
Jude the Obscure; Mayor of Casterbridge;
Return of the Native.
Nathanel Hawthorne, http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.html
The House of the Seven Gables, 1815; The Scarlet Letter, 1850.
Ernest Hemingway,
Zora Neal Hurston,
Kazuo Ishiguro,
Henry James, The
Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; Washington
Square, 1880; The American, 1877; The Europeans;
the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites.
James Joyce, Ulysses,
1922; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
Dubliners.
Maxine Hong Kingston,
Joy Kogawa,
Margaret Laurence,
D.H. Lawrence, Lady
Chatterley's Lover; Women in Love.
Bernard
Malamud,
Katherine
Mansfield,
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez,
Bobbie
Ann Mason,
Carson
McCullers,
Herman Melville, Bartleby
the Scrivener; Moby Dick; Billy Budd;
Benito Cereno.
Toni Morrison,
Bharati
Mukherjee,
Vladimir
Nabokov,
Flannery
O'Connor,
Cynthia
Ozick,
Katherine
Anne Porter,
Jean Rhys,
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, 1726.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna
Karenina, 1870; War and Peace.
Mark Twain, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Life on the Mississippi;
Innocents Abroad; The Bridge-Builders; The Prince and
the Pauper;Pudd'nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court, 1889; Huckleberry Finn, 1884.
John Updike,
Luisa Valenzuela,
Alice Walker,
Evelyn Waugh,
Eudora Welty,
Edith Wharton, Summer,
1917; The Age of Innocence
(1921
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); Ethan
Frome;
The Buccaneers; A Backward Glance; The Custom of the
Country.
John Edgar Wiedman,
Virginia Woolf, The
Voyage Out, 1915.
Richard
Wright,
Online Collections of Poetry of Literary Merit
The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250?1900
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century
The Golden Treasury
of the Best Songs and
Lyrical Poems in
the English Language
Online Poets of Literary Merit
W. H. Auden,
Elizabeth
Bishop,
William
Blake (1757-1827), The
Poetry of William Blake.
Anne Bradstreet,
The
Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
E. K. Braithwaite,
Gwendolyn
Brooks,
Robert
Browning (1812-1889) The Poetry of
Robert Browning.
Lord Byron
Lorna Dee Cervantes,
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), The
Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), The
Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), The
Poetry of mily Dickinson.
John Donne (1572-1631),
The Poetry of ohn Donne.
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle; 1886-1961), The
Poetry of H. D.
Rita Dove
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), The
Poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Robert Frost (1874-1963), The
Poetry of Robert Frost.
Joy Harjo
Seamus Heaney
George Herbert (1593-1633), The
Poetry of George Herbert.
Garrett Hongo
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), The
Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), The
Poetry of Langston Hughes.
Ben Johnson (1572-1637), The
Poetry of Ben Jonson.
John Keats (1795-1821), The
Poetry of John Keats.
Philip Larkin
Robert Lowell
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), The
Poetry of Andrew Marvell.
John Milton (1608-1674), The
Poetry of John Milton.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), The
Poetry of Marianne Moore.
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), The
Poetry of Wilfred Owen.
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849),
The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), The
Poetry of Alexander Pope.
Adrienne Rich
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The
Poetry of William Shakespeare.
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Leslie Marmom Silko
Cathy Song
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), The
Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Derek Walcott
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), The
Poetry of Walt Whitman.
Richard Wilbur,
Richard Wilbur Teacher's Guide - offers discussion questions and writing
prompts; First Snow in Alsace; In the Smoking
Car.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), The
Poetry of William Carlos Williams.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), The
Poetry of William Wordsworth.
William Butler Yeats
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