• Bibliomania - offers free full-text for more than 800 classics in literature, drama, & poetry. Study guides are also available.
• Project Gutenberg- this is the oldest digital library. It offers full text for over 28,000 public domain books. The project has expanded to include audio books and sheet music.
• Poets.Org- this is the award-winning web site of the Academy of American Poets. Offerings include thousands of poems, hundreds of poet bios, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings. Other items of note are the National Poetry Map, an events calendar and lessons plans for teachers.
• Sparknotes
• The Encyclopedia Mythica
• The Online Books Page
• Perseus Digital Library
• Poetry Foundation
  

Black Literature Criticism : Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950
Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.