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Reference

Websites

MLA Style

• RefWorks
  A service provided by Saint Michael's College, RefWorks allows you to create bibliographies, import references from online databases, and organize your references into folders. 
   
• MLA Documentation (from Ohio State University Libraries)
  http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/mlagd.php
   
• Citing Internet and Electronic Sources
  http://academics.smcvt.edu/sburks/citing_internet.htm
  (compiled by Steve Burks, Saint Michael's College Reference & Instruction Librarian)

Poets and Poetry

• The Academy of American Poets
  http://www.poets.org/
  The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. 
    
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
  http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm
  Archive of e-text editions from the University of California, Davis, Shields Library Kohler collection.  Includes poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789 and 1832.
   
• Museum of American Poetics
  http://www.poetspath.com/links.html
  Links to poetry sites, languages tool sites and First Amendment sites.
    

Shakespeare Studies

In addition to the sources listed in the above sections of this subject guide, the following are several sites of interest:

• Arden Shakespeare    Info
  Texts and sources for Shakespeare studies. Full text of all of the plays, poems, and sonnets.
    
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
  MIT provides the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare. 
    
• Hamlet Works
  http://www.hamletworks.org
  An offshoot of the Modern Language Association’s New Variorum project. This web site is meant to complement the eventual print edition of the New Variorum Hamlet and vice versa.
   
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu
  Annotated directory of scholarly Internet resources.
   
• SHAKSPER:  The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference
  http://www.shaksper.net/
  The international electronic conference for Shakespearean researchers, instructors, students, and those who share their academic interests and concerns.

Electronic Books and Texts

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
  http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
  Special collection prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, publishes 30 volumes of 19th-cenury African American women's literature.
  
  
• Bibliomania
  http://www.bibliomania.com
  Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts.   
     
• Project Gutenberg
  http://www.gutenberg.org
  25,000 electronic books in the public domain. 
   
• Victorian Women Writers Project
  http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
  SGML texts of works by Victorian era women.
   
• Women Writers Online  Info
  http://library.smcvt.edu/login?url=http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html
  A full text database of women's writing c. 1400-1850.  Produced by Brown University Women Writers Project.