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  poems - www.liberliber.it/mediateca/libri/c/cavalcanti/rime/html/rime_01.htm


Chateaubriand Life and Works

Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe - www.bacdefrancais.net/mem_outre.php

René - athena.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chateaubriand-rene.html

Atala - athena.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chateaubriand-atala.html

Abencerage - athena.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chateaubriand-aventures-du-dernier-abencerage.html

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  - tangshi.tuxfamily.org/


Chrétien de Troyes

Source texts, 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

 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 Romeabu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/donner_html?antiquites1

Les Regretsfr.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 Volumes 1&2

The fragments of Thomas of England's Tristan Thomas Fragments


Latin Source Texts

The Latin Library - www.thelatinlibrary.com/

Rome Literature - blogs.dalton.org/rome/

Carmina Burana - 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, 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

The Seafarer - 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 - usuaris.tinet.cat/picl/libros/glorca/gl000000.htm

Pablo Neruda’s Life and Works - www.neruda.uchile.cl/


Troubadour Poetry: Occitan language source texts

Leonardo Malcovati’s Troubadour site: many Occitan texts - 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

The Wanderer - people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Wanfram.htm


Translations and e-Books

 Brian Cole’s Brindin Press - www.brindin.com/main.htm

Athelstane E-texts - Nick Hodson’s e-text creation site - www.athelstane.co.uk/index.htm

Tim Chilcott’s translation site - www.tclt.org.uk/

James Huddleston’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey - homer.library.northwestern.edu/

Free books online at U. of Adelaide - ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/

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: The plays ‘translated’ into modern idiom - nfs.sparknotes.com/


Poetry Sites

The Poetry Foundation -  - www.poetryfoundation.org/

International Poetry - Point Editions - www.point-editions.com/

Paul Hurt’s Linkage Site -- www.linkagenet.com/index.htm

George Theodoridis - Bacchic Stage - https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/

Jim Levy's Poetry and other works - www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Levy/e/B01CIVKP8K


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