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Gideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.

This useful online guide to Renaissance pronunciation is provided by John M. Vinopal as part of his Renaissance Faire homepage. Categories include: Pronunciation; Pronunciation Drills; Vocabulary; Grammar; Forms of Address; Insults and Cursing; and Songs of the Times. The brief pronunciation tutorial and pronunciation guide both feature sound files in a selection of formats and, although the songs page is text only, it does contain a reasonable selection for an introduction to the Renaissance balla

The Furness Shakespeare Library has made available over the internet rare and often first editions of Elizabethan documents contemporary to Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare's own works. By scanning the images of these rare texts, the library hopes to inspire interest and learning through texts most will never have the opportunity to see otherwise. Within this website you can browse by author or text. While some texts are complete others contain title pages or illustrations, or the author's comments. Under ERIC (English Renaissance in Context) there are tutorials designed to assist teachers. The tutorials do not supply answers like study guides, rather they propose important questions about the text and bring up issues to be discussed in class. There are tutorials on "Romeo and Juliet", "Merchant of Venice", "Richard III", "King Lear", and topics about Renaissance publishing and printing.

La Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM), est élaborée par l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS). Elle permet de consulter la reproduction d'une large sélection de manuscrits, du Moyen Âge jusqu'au début de la Renaissance, conservés dans des fonds patrimoniaux dispersés sur tout le territoire français, hormis ceux de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Edmund Spenser World Bibliography is the largest on-line source of bibliographic information on the poet. For the years that it now covers (1974-2009), it includes 30% more items than the MLA International Bibliography. The website is sponsored by the Department of English & Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Saint Louis University, ©2001-2011.

The "Archive for New Poetry" website is hosted by the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, and contains an extensive research collection of resources relating to American poetry and poetics in the period after 1945. The archive aims to represent experimental writing and alternative approaches to writing in English, and focuses on the "New American" poets, the Black Mountain poets, the Objectivist movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, and the language writers. Writers represented in the Archive include Paul Blackburn, Jackson Mac Low, Carl Rakosi, Clayton Eshleman, and Lew Welch.

Montana State University provide this annotated online full-text of Isabella Whitney's verse miscellany, 'A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posy Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers' (1573) compiled by a large team of editorial staff. Whitney's miscellany is regarded as the first publication of secular verse by a women in Renaissance England.