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Romantic Literature

Featured Websites

Romantic Circles
A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

Literary Resources - Romantic
Collection of links to various Web sites related to Romantic literature

The Romantics
From the British Library (the English Equivalent of the library of Congress), a lengthy essay covering the major aspects of English Romanticism: the movement, the poets (including female poets), points of disagreement, the Gothic.

The Romantic Poets
From Poet Seers: a series of bio-critical essays on the major English Romantic poets.

Romanticism (Internet History Sourcebooks)

Voice of the Shuttle - Romantics

The Bluestocking Archive
An archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues.

The Victorian Web
Collection of background information on the Romantic period and selected authors of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Notable Authors

William Blake Archive

The Jane Austen Society of North America

Wordsworth Museum

The Shelley-Godwin Archive
Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Web Concordances
Digital concordances of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats's Odes of 1819, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience ...

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