Based at Virginia Tech, contains links to research tools for American Literature, American Authors, English Literature, British Authors, Genre and Specialized Resources, Broad Coverage Sites, and Electronic Journals. Some sites have restricted access for local users. Extensive links under each category. Includes locally administered resources such as a poetry journal, live performance space, full-text poetry database and discussion list files. Links to numerous other resources including full-text electronic poetry journals, print journal citation list, and Online Directory of Poets.
All sites listed here include the full text of the literary works.
Many of the sites include search engines. Some also provide special mechanisms for downloading the texts. This site for several electronic text projects includes works in English, French, German, Latin and Japanese. Several databases are restricted access to UVa. A large portion of the Modern English Collection, containing over 1,000 title and 3,000 manuscripts, is accessible to the general public and includes a sophisticated search engine with Boolean operators.