Recommended Links
All of these sites provide excellent, free material:
Beowulf
The Old English text and a literal translation -
www.heorot.dk/beo-intro-rede.html
Old English dictionaries -
www.lexilogos.com/english/english_old.htm
Catullus Life and Works
Catullus Translations -
www.negenborn.net/catullus/
Cavalcanti Life and Works
Italian texts of Guido Cavalcanti’s poems -
www.liberliber.it/mediateca/libri/c/cavalcanti/rime/html/rime_01.htm
Chateaubriand Life and Works
The complete French text (with supplementary material) of the Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe -
www.bacdefrancais.net/mem_outre.php
The French text of René -
athena.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chateaubriand-rene.html
The French text of Atala -
athena.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chateaubriand-atala.html
The French text of Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage -
athena.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chateaubriand-aventures-du-dernier-abencerage.html
The French text of Voyage en Italie -
fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Voyage_en_Italie_%28Chateaubriand%29
Chaucer Life and Works
The Online Medieval and Classical Library Middle English text of Troilus and Criseyde -
omacl.org/Troilus/
Chinese Life and Culture
English translations of Tang Dynasty poetry by Hei Fengcong/Lengmen Daoshi/R. Earle Harris -
tangshi.tuxfamily.org/
Chrétien de Troyes
Source texts for his Arthurian Romances (except Perceval) -
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Chr%C3%A9tien_de_Troyes
Source text for Perceval (PDF download) -
txm.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/bfm/pdf/PercevalKu.pdf
Dante Life and Works
Great Dante (Italian and Latin source texts here) -
www.greatdante.net/
Dante Online -
www.danteonline.it/english/opere_indice.htm
Elizabethan Poetry
Luminarium -
www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Matthew G Scarsbrook’s interesting Marlowe Site -
www.matthewgscarsbrook.com-a.googlepages.com/christophermarlowe
French Literature and Source Text Links
Classic poetry, the French texts -
poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/Author
Du Bellay -Les Antiquités de Rome -
abu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/donner_html?antiquites1
Les Regrets-
fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Regrets_%28du_Bellay%29
D'Orléans - Ballades et Rondeaux -
www.gutenberg.org/files/14343/14343-h/14343-h.htm
Gawain
The Middle English text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -
www.yorku.ca/inpar/sggk_replica.pdf
Goethe
The German text of Faust from Project Gutenberg -
Part I -
www.gutenberg.org/etext/2229
Part II -
www.gutenberg.org/etext/2230
The German text of Goethe’s works -
www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Goethe,+Johann+Wolfgang
Gottfried von Strassburg
The German text of Gottried's unfinished Tristan - a PDF download from Google Books
The fragments of Thomas of England's Tristan
Latin Source Texts
The Latin Library -
www.thelatinlibrary.com/
Rome Literature -
blogs.dalton.org/rome/
Carmina Burana - The original text from Bibliotheca Augustana -
www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/CarminaBurana/bur_car0.html
Leopardi
Source text of the Canti -
www.classicitaliani.it/index016.htm
Ovid His Life and Works
Larry Avis Brown -
larryavisbrown.homestead.com/
The Ovid Collection at U. of Virginia -
etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/
Petrarch His Life and Works
Peter Sadlon -
petrarch.petersadlon.com/petrarch.html
Texts in Italian including the Canzoniere -
www.classicitaliani.it/index180.htm
Quasimodo
A selection of poems by Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian text -
www.poesie.reportonline.it/poesie-di-salvatore-quasimodo/index.html
Quasimodo and others, Italian text -
www.incontroallapoesia.it/poesie%20salvatore_quasimodo.htm
Rilke
The German text of his works -
www.dichterseiten.de/gedichte--Rilke--c.html
Russian Literature on the Net
The Poets, texts in Russian -
writerstob.narod.ru/stihi/stihi.htm
Various great works in translation -
jrusk.tripod.com/russian/russian.html
The Silver Age -
sites.ualberta.ca/~lmalcolm/poetry/index.html
Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin -
www.rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/04onegin/01onegin/0836.htm
The Seafarer: Old English Text
www.usask.ca/english/seafarer/TOC.htm
Spanish Poetry
Spanish texts of various poets including Hernández, Neruda and Machado -
www.poesia-inter.net/index.htm
Spanish texts of various periods -
www.sonferrer.com/
A wealth of Spanish texts, including Rafael Alberti (indexed under R) -
www.poetaspoemas.com/
Poetry texts from various Spanish-speaking countries -
www.los-poetas.com/
A varied anthology of Spanish poetry -
spanishpoems.blogspot.co.uk/
Garcia Lorca’s Complete Works in Spanish -
federicogarcialorca.net
Pablo Neruda’s Life and Works -
www.neruda.uchile.cl/
Troubadour Poetry: Occitan language source texts
Leonardo Malcovati’s Troubadour site: many Occitan texts and some English translations -
www.trobar.org/troubadours/
The Trovatori site at Rialto: many Occitan texts and some Italian translations-
www.rialto.unina.it/BdT.htm
The invaluable Occitan Lexicon: a short Occitan/French dictionary -
lengadoc.chez.com/lexic_medieval.htm
The Wanderer: Old English Text
people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Wanfram.htm
Translations and e-Books
A major library of quality translations - Brian Cole’s Brindin Press -
www.brindin.com/main.htm
Athelstane E-texts - Nick Hodson’s fascinating e-text creation site -
www.athelstane.co.uk/index.htm
Tim Chilcott’s fine translation site, including Rimbaud, Lao-Tze, Basho, Racine and the Gospels -
www.tclt.org.uk/
James Huddleston’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey-
homer.library.northwestern.edu/
Free books online at U. of Adelaide -
The Online Books Page - John Mark Ockerbloom at U. Penn. -
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Project Gutenberg - Michael Hart’s Free Text Library -
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
World Public Library -
worldlibrary.net/
Free e-Books for your PDA -
www.manybooks.net/
Eldritch Press - Eric Eldritch’s Free Archive -
eldritchpress.org/
The Internet Public Library (now closed) -
www.ipl.org/
No Fear Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s plays ‘translated’ into modern idiom -
nfs.sparknotes.com/
Poetry Sites
The Poetry Foundation - Literary journalism, everything poetic, online archive -
www.poetryfoundation.org/
International Poetry - Point Editions
www.point-editions.com/
Paul Hurt’s Linkage Site - including Poetry and Criticism
www.linkagenet.com/index.htm
Jim Levy's Poetry and other works
www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Levy/e/B01CIVKP8K
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