English 250 Resources

General Resources, for the whole course

• What to look for in literature
• A useful introduction to The Sonnet
• The best archive: Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• Some Concepts for Analyzing Renaissance Literature

Selected items on the Web related to works or authors covered by this course, more or less in the order that we will get to them.

• A Viking house. Keep this image in mind when you read Beowulf.

  Beowulf

  The Electronic Beowulf Project

  Beowulf Resources

  An E-text edition of Beowulf

• Images from the Book of Kells, a famous and beautiful copy of the Gospels.
• The Lindisfarne Gospels, British Library Permanent Exhibition
• The Age of the Vikings (793-1066)
• The Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot embroidery which tells the story of the events leading up to and including the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066.
• A more recent painting of the Battle of Hastings (1066)

  Chaucer

  Chaucer Home Page (EN 413)

  Canterbury Tales

• Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry. See the description of this masterpiece under "International Gothic Style."
• Gammer Gurton's Needle
• Bosch, Hieronymus: The Garden of Earthly Delight (c. 1504)
• The Knight, Death, and the Devil. Woodcut, Albrecht Dürer, 1514; from WebLouvre
• Portrait of Sir Thomas Southwell. Hans Holbein, 1536.
• Utopia woodcut, 1516*
• A Thomas More lease*
• Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella.
• The Mary Rose Virtual Maritime Museum
• Elizabethan era language and pronunciation
• Peasant Wedding. Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1568.
• Peasant Dance. Brueghel, 1568.
• Letter from Raleigh*
• Richard Bear's Edmund Spenser Home Page
• Renaissance Consort, by Yasuhiko Higaki. A demonstration of a renaissance consort and renaissance instruments.

  William Shakespeare

  Shakespeare Web

  MIT's Shakespeare Homepage

  Shakespeare Illustrated

  Another Shakespeare Home Page (EN 300 and EN 402)

  Shakespeare First Folio - To The Reader*

  Shakespeare First Folio - Frontispiece*

  Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? an answer by Prof. J.M. Massi, Washington State U.

• The Thomas Middleton page
• Jonson
• Johns Hopkins' Project Aldus
• Letter from John Donne*
• Letter from Marvell*
• Milton Home Page (EN 317)
• A page from Milton's PL*
• Pepys diary in code*
• John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding on line.
• John Dryden, selected poems, online at Toronto.
• Behn: The Rover, part 1
• Behn: The Rover, part 2
• A page of Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical notes (Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 471, fol. 33r).
• Margaret Stein's Age of Style
• A short biography of Daniel Defoe and an on-line Robinson Crusoe
• Gay: The Beggar's Opera
• A web devoted to the works of the illustrator William Hogarth; a few more Hogarth prints
• Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson page.
• Selected Poetry by Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
• The Gothic Novel
• The University of California, Berkeley, exhibit on The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830 ( The New Child will be on display at the Dixon Galleries and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee, from December 1995 - February 1996)