Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities

Transcription of an interview with the 1999 National Book Award winner for poetry, Ai.

Critical articles, excerpts, information on the Collected Works and forthcoming volumes, and related links.

Provides links to biographical information, criticism, full text versions of the novels, stories, and poetry, and other online resources devoted to the 19th Century American author.

From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).

Companion to a British Library exhibit features a timeline, short essays, images from the exhibition, and related links.

Links to relevant sites.

The Archelogos Project aims at constructing an electronic database which will contain all the philosophical arguments found in the works of Plato and Aristotle.The philosophical arguments of Plato and Aristotle are represented in Archelogos according to a method which makes explicit their logical interconnection. The database also includes information about how scholars have understood the philosophical arguments of Plato and Aristotle throughout the ages.

Contains a biography of the author, a listing of her work, a bibliography of secondary sources, critical reviews, and personal interviews.

This society commemorates the life and work of the English poet.

Tourism information about locations associated with Jane Austen's life and works.

Critical essay addressing the life and works, from a professor at Brandeis University.

A guided tour "through the monumental heart of Paris in the time of Balzac, as described through some of his works, and as documented in maps and engravings of The Vernon Duke CollectionSpecial Collections DepartmentUniversity of California Library."

Modern American Poetry page about Amiri Baraka (also known as Leroi Jones).

Full text of works by American children's author L. Frank Baum (1856-1919.

Provides access to the major works of Blake's visual and literary art, with bibliographic information, and extensive general and specific bibliographies.

Biographical information, bibliographic resources, a newsletter, message boards.

Searchable bibliography of English language translations.

Digitized version of the 1988 edition illustrated by Kate Greenaway.

"Discover Burns close-up through our on-line gallery, virtual tours of the homes and haunts of the poet, and a wealth of poetry and songs. Youll also find resources for the classroom, links to Burns organisations, and information on caring for Burns artefacts. . . .This website has been created by a partnership of museums, galleries, libraries, and other organisations across Scotland which together care for over 36,000 objects. These manuscripts, books, art and artefacts help bring us closer to understanding and appreciating Scotlands national poet."

"These pages are devoted to the study of the life, letters, and poetic works of George Gordon Byron, the most prolific and controversial of the great English Romantic poets."

Biography, portrait, timeline, selections from the works.

Audio version, accessible through Real Player.

Library of Congress exhibition feature a scrapbook kept by Lewis Carroll. Includes an essay, a portrait gallery, and a timeline.

"Publishes scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Cervantes' life and works, reviews, and notes of interest to cervantistas."

Site provides online editions of the texts, links to articles and critical studies, and useful language resources for the study of Middle English.

Website of the museum in Hannibal, Misosuri.

This archive "focuses on how 'Mark Twain' and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits."

A project to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote.

This Website is based on the on-going scholarly work of producing The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, a publishing efort whose "intention was to provide readers with sound scholarly editions of Cooper's major works, based wherever possible on authorial manuscripts."

Site features the full-text of the Divina Commedia, including two English translations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Allen Mandelbaum.

Biographical information, plus Defoe's online versions of the major novels, pamphlets, and travel writings.

Companion site to lectures given in 1999.

An extensive collection of resources and links related to Dickens' Works, his Life and Family, London and the Victorian period.

"The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London."

Extensive Holmes website, including the original stories, and a broad range of additional resources.

Each of the Holmes stories is available, with some basic information about the original publication, links to online full-text versions, and items of related interest.

Provides access to over 200 poems and a libretto.

The University of Mississippi's extensive website on the life and works of Faulkner, including a broad range of connections to other resources.

A large site sponsered by the University of South Carolina and devoted to the life and works of Fitzgerald. Includes bibliographies, biography and chronology, essays, articles, photographs, quotations, and voice and film clips.

"Since its inception in November 1999, thefoucauldian.co.uk has aimed to provide visitors with a resource which would provide assistance in studying Michel Foucault." The site features a "completely revised and re-written bibliography listing over 100 currently available texts. A growing frequently asked questions page to help visitors new to Michel Foucault. An extensive hyperlinks page, which is in the process of being developed to include only themost relevant and up-to-date sites. A growing list of available texts for viewing online or for downloading. All texts in the extracts section have been coverted to PDF format for downloading/printing."

History of the first publication of Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" as well as a description of the various 2006 celebrations and festivities in its honor. From City Lights Bookstore.

Full text of works by Victorian writer Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), including the Wind in the Willows.

Selected Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm in RealAudio.

A directory of informative, worthwhile web pages devoted to Hamlet, divided into such categories as directories, discussion groups, full-text editions, humor, movies, papers, Shakespeare resources, spinoffs, summaries, and translations.

From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

Features biography and a selected bibliography and suggestions for further reading.

Brief essays on Hardy's life and works with bibliographies and links to other resources.

This website's "primary goal is to help students of philosophy (both outside and within academic studies) understand Hegel's method of thought. It is also intended to support the project of relating Hegel's philosophy with modern advancements in science and philosophy. Its secondary goal therefore is to bring about a comparative analysis of Hegelian thought and (post-)modern philosophy and science." Includes sections on Life, Works, Phenomenology, Logic, Nature, Spirit, Reception, and Resources.