This photographic reproduction of "Shakespeare" by William Blake (1800) is in the public domain.
Textbooks
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity After an introductory chapter that offers advice on how to read (and teach) literature, this book consists of a series of chapters that examine individual literary works ranging from The Iliad to Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.
Multimedia
- LibriVox Free audiobooks of titles in the public domain.
- Survey of American Literature This is a free online college course which is a chronological survey of American Literature from the Civil War to 1974.
Websites
- Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians This collection from the British Library features over 1,200 items, 167 articles, 25 films, 30 teachers’ notes and more.
- Emily Dickinson Archive Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.
- Folger Digital Texts Free high-quality digital texts of many of Shakespeare's plays, from the renowned Folger Shakespeare Library. Easy to search and optimized for on-screen reading.
- Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free public domain ebooks. Find classic literature and historical works by browsing the bookshelves or searching the catalog.
- Walt Whitman Archive An extensive online archive of works by and about Whitman.
