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IPL Online Literary Criticism Guide This collection of links from the Internet Public Library is your starting place for finding online critical writing on the Web.

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Contains 4745 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works. Browse by author, by title, or select the time period under British Literature.

Literary Resources on the Net A good gateway to scholarly sites. Includes sections for Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian British,  20th Century British & Irish.

English Literature by Period Part of the Voice of the Shuttle meta-index of humanities-related sources.

Victorian Web - Authors Background information and brief essays on a number of authors.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Bartleby.com online version of the 18 volume classic.

MonkeyNotes - online MonkeyNotes guides for a number of works.

Critical Reading: A Guide; The grounds of evaluation of fiction: suggestions; Depth, Complexity, Quality

Oxford Companion to British Literature (Please note, outside the Library, OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access).

Books: Selected titles from Lakewood Public Library. You can search the Lakewood Public Library catalog, or browse the shelves near the call numbers below.

• Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. 820.9 Daiches
• Blamires, Harry. Twentieth-Century English Literature. 820.90091 161
• Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature. 820.9008 8833
• Gale Literary Criticism Series:
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism. REF 801.95 Contemporary
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism REF 809.046 Twentieth
  • Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism REF 809.04 Nineteenth
• The Critical Perspective: Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904. REF 820.9 C933
• The Critical Temper: A Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century. 3 vols. REF 820.9 C934
• The New Moulton's Pre-Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904. 10 vols. REF 820.9 N523
• Temple, Ruth Zabriskie, comp. Modern British literature. 5 vols. REF 820.9 T287l
• British Writers. REF 820.9 British

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet