Ulysses for Dummies | Distilling Bloom's day down to its essentials. Animated GIFs! | |
Illustrated Beowulf | Starring: President Bill Clinton, Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Pope John Paul II, Cookie Monster, Michelle Pfeiffer, Boris Yeltsin, Godzilla, Hillary Clinton, The A-Team, and David Letterman (the little guys in the castle)! | |
Non Sequitur -- Latin Mottoes and Phrases For the Masses | ||
Aphorisms Galore! | ||
Howl.com | (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) | |
The Awful German Language | Mark Twain | |
Children's Literature | ||
The Caldecott Medal Home Page | ||
The Newbery Medal Home Page | ||
The Children's Literature Web Guide | ||
Poetry | ||
A Randomly-Composed Poem drawn from Humanities Text Initiative American Verse Collection | ||
EE Times Presents: POEMS | ||
On-line texts | ||
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet | ||
Books On-line, Listed by Author | ||
Online Literature Library | ||
Words and the History of Language | ||
A.Word.A.Day Home Page | ||
A.Word.A.Day -- Travails of English | ||
English as She is Spoke | The worst phrasebook every written. | |
Bierce: Devil's Dictionary Extracts | The classic reference work. | |
Interactive KulturChock: Swedish idioms in literal translation | More humor. | |
A Zillion Troubles | Why Americans think a billion is 1,000,000,000 and Brits think it's 1,000,000,000,000. | |
The American-British - British-American Dictionary | Very thorough and well-presented, covering pronounciation, spelling, meaning, and with a lot of links to similar sites. | |
Netscrap(TM): Washington Post's Style Invitational | Infamous contest to alter a word by ading, subtracting or changing a letter and supplying a new definition. | |
chiasmus.com | All about phrases with reversals of words, phrases, letter, or sounds: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." | |
Hebrew 101 by Abbott and Costello | "No, no, no. Mee is who." | |
Writing | ||
Models for Clear Writing, 3/e Donald, et al |
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Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style. | ||
Frank Jacobs | Frank Jacobs has written light verse for Mad Magazine since before I began reading it in the late 1960's. His parodies of well-known poems and poets are, in my opinion, absolutely brilliant. | |
Jacob to Jag | ||
the jabberwocky variations: introduction | ||
http://www.physci.psu.edu/~kurtis/reagan.txt | ||
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~dunkelza/patriot/The.Reagan | ||
Sarah Lindsay | A bunch of links mentioning Sarah, an old friend from college whose volume of poetry Primate Behaviour was a 1997 National Book Award finalist. | |
Sarah Lindsay's Primate Behaviour -- Authors Review of Books -- 12/21/97 | ||
The Academy of American Poets - Publishers | ||
The Academy of American Poets - Books Noted | ||
The Threepenny Review: Fall 97 Table of Contents | ||
Book Notes: (04/05/98, CHN) | ||
http://www.uncg.edu/eng/visitwr98.htm | ||
http://www.uncg.edu/eng/lindsy.htm | ||
ALA RUSA Notable Books 1998 |