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La Bayerische Staatsbibliothek di Monaco ha digitalizzato integralmente la monumentale opera di consultazione Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (55 volumi e un Indice, 1875-1912), che prosegue con la Neue Deutsche Biographie (23 volumi, a partire dal 1953). Si tratta di uno dei più importanti dizionari biografici di tutti i tempi. Contiene circa 46.300 voci biografiche relative a uomini e donne di rilievo che hanno vissuto in Germania e negli altri paesi di lingua tedesca.

Sito web del canale TV omonimo.

Biographie-Portal è il risultato di una collaborazione tra la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, la Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, l'Accademia austriaca delle scienze e la Fondazione Dizionario storico della Svizzera. Il portale rende accessibili, attraverso un indice comune oltre 100.000 biografie che riguardano tutti gli ambiti sociali e quasi tutte le epoche della storia tedesca, austriaca e svizzera. In futuro si prevede l'integrazione di altre opere biografiche di riferimento nazionali e regionali.

Argentine contemporary literature: texts and national authors' biographies, pictures, biographies, and audio files in addition to special numbers, interactive stories, and chat. Intermediate through advanced. AP recommended.

The 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers - imitators and emulators, critics and biographers - engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks. ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830 begins with series of poems that imitate Spenser and his followers, series that grew and diversified as English literature migrated across time and space. The archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world.

The Internet Poetry Archive is a multimedia resource that aims to bring contemporary poetry to a larger audience and to offer new ways of teaching and studying such poems. The project contains selected works by: Philip Levine; Robert Pinsky; Yusef Komunyakaa; Margaret Walker; Richard Wilbur; Seamus Heaney; and Czeslaw Milosz. The poems are presented in their original languages as well as in English translation, and are accompanied by authors' comments. Poems and comments are also accessible as audio files, and a critical biography and brief bibliography is provided for each poet

The 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers - imitators and emulators, critics and biographers - engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks. ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830 begins with series of poems that imitate Spenser and his followers, series that grew and diversified as English literature migrated across time and space. The archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world.

A database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library. It includes biographies, bibliographies, contemporary reviews and memoirs, images, synopses and keyword descriptions of texts, as well as new criticism and contextual material. CW3 has been created by the Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board of Great Britain. CW3 is also an on-line scholarly journal, with an editorial board of leading specialists.

Extensive information on A. Huxley including, biography, online texts, discussion forum, video, links, bibliography and articles, with Brave New World content.

LUXONLINE is a web resource for exploring British based artists' film and video in-depth. Luxonline is the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and video artists. Streaming video clips, new writings, past articles and biographies provide a comprehensive contextual background to the artists featured on the site.

This phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

This website is a biographical guide to the world of Victorian film. It features 300 biographies of those who, behind and in front of the camera, played a significant part in creating the phenomenon of moving pictures. It is based on the book Who's Who of Victorian Cinema, published by the British Film Institute in 1996. It has been revised throughout, and new entries and background features added, to make the website serve as a reference source to the world of Victorian film and the world as seen through the eyes of the Victorian filmmakers. Victorian film we define as filmmaking in its broadest sense, from the first glimmerings in the 1870s and 80s to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.

The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information.

The website TheatreHistory.com features information about a wide range of theatrical traditions in Europe, North America and Asia. The site offers an index of topics relating to the theatre history of different cultures. There are resources on Irish theatre, British theatre, Russian theatre, Spanish theatre and many more. There is a good cross-section of information about contemporary theatre, as well as pages devoted to ancient Greek and Roman and medieval theatre. There is also general information about the origins and development of the theatre. Under each topic, users can access information on playwrights and dramatic practice. Topics include biographies of key figures in the history of drama, synopses of plays and contextual studies about relationships between drama and society.

This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of many of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers. Also included are writers from the Republic of Ireland who the British Council has worked with. Included in each author's profile is their biography, bibliography, prizes they have won and their photograph. For many authors, a critical review of their work - written by a Literature expert - is also available.

The Web site "Jewish Virtual Library" is maintained and compiled by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and this ought to be born in mind when using or looking at the site. Obviously the site is dominated by literature on the Jewish Holocaust, but there are also sections on Israeli politics, biography, Israel and religion. One of the best sections of this Web site displays reproductions and excerpts from Judaic treasures of the Library of Congress. It features some beautiful reproductions along with explanations of the works, textual excerpts and links to vocabularly and terminology that may be unfamiliar.

Île en île contient une riche documentation littéraire, présentant des centaines d'auteur·e·s francophones des îles et de leur diaspora avec des dossiers approfondis : photos, biographies, bibliographies, entretiens et extraits de textes

Poetry of the First World War is a website created by enthusiast B.J. Omanson, devoted to all poets active during that conflict, across all nationalities. The site lists poets and gives brief biographical details for most, as well as information on their poetry. T