Literary Terms - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource outlining vocabulary and definitions for a variety of genres and written structures
Literary Theory - Written by a literature professor, provides an overview of eight literary theories as well as an extensive bibliography
Literary Genres - Provides a list of various types of literature with short descriptions
Rhetorical Situations - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource exploring what rhetoric is and how it relates to writing through examples and videos
Classical Argument - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource that covers elements of rhetoric, its structure, and classical applications
Visual Rhetoric - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource on visual rhetoric and how to analyze visual documents
Poetry Archive - Hear contemporary poets read their own poems and listen to readings of poems by writers such as Emily Dickinson, John Keats, and William Shakespeare
Poets.org - Find poems by author, title, theme, occasion, or form in this collection of over 10,000 poems, both historic and contemporary
Narrative - Digital magazine publishing the best of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
The Paris Review - Features interviews with authors from the 1950s to today, also offering a podcast and weekly book reviews, and more.
American Verse Project - Archive of American poetry before 1920, with fulltext books available for download
bartleby - Offers full text books from before 1920, including poetry, short story anthologies, and how-to books on writing