Online literature guides

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• Bartleby
  Fully searchable access to a wide range of classic fiction, verse, non-fiction, and reference.
  
• Contemporary Writers
  Searchable database containing up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers.
  
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Search the literature section of the world-famous encyclopaedia.
  
• Internet Public Library Literary Criticism
  Links to hundreds of authors from all around the world, past and present.
  
• Oxford Reference Online
  Consult the Oxford companions to literature, the dictionary of Shakespeare, dictionary of writers and more.
  
• Shakespeare and the Internet
  Great starting point to discover quality Shakespeare resources.
  

• Rampant Scotland Directory of Literature and Poetry
  Directory of some of the best Scottish writing, and links to online texts of some classic Scottish literature including works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle.
  
• Scotland's Literature
  Links to classic texts by Scottish writers as well as the sites of modern writers such as Janice Galloway and Ian Rankin. Also includes a section on Gaelic literature.
  
• Scottish Poetry Library
  Details of some of Scotland’s great poets, and “a lost for words” section where you can search for a poem even if you have forgotten the author and the title.
  
• Scottish Writers
  Helpful information on some of the best modern Scottish writers.