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Think you can beat my scores on these literature games? I double-dog dare you.

Study guides for literature, US history, poetry, and book clubs.

"Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet on Facebook? With social networking the hot topic of the day, a computer science grad student, his advisor and a literature professor teamed up to analyze social interactions in 19th century British novels."

These tongue-in-cheek biographies of authors certainly make for interesting reading for British literature students.

This article might help you with summer reading, but How to Read Literature Like a Professor and How to Read Novels Like a Professor are even better.

For perusal later: looks interesting.

Students in British Literature and Comp. might remember that Ada Lovelace is the daughter of Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. What a coincidence!

A lasting online resource and a companion project for Shakespeare in American Life, a radio documentary produced by Richard Paul and narrated by Sam Waterston, airing on Public Radio International (PRI) stations beginning in April 2007.

Paste compiles a list of some of literature's biggest jerks. You know you love to hate them.

Grand Theft Auto: The Emily Dickinson Edition. This cartoon from xkcd made me laugh. Enjoy!

BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.

Shakespeare meets Craigslist.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.

E-Text of Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at UNC Chapel Hill.

This Web site gives you a variety of ways to read Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," including e-text, a chapter a day, RSS, zip files of the whole book, and mp3's.

This Web site has some beautiful photographs, including aerial photos, of Tintern Abbey so you can visualize the poem's setting.

A Web site devoted to William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey."

Questions to ask when explicating poetry.