Shakespeare's Words
Shakespeare's Words is an online version of David and Ben Crystal's glossary and language companion.
- Read full texts of the Complete Works online.
- Search for one word or phrase across all the Works.
- Full A-Z Glossary.
- Search by Topics or Themes.
To use the site you will have to register an account and then use the access code found on Weblearn
The British Library: Regional Voices
An online learning resource looking at regional accents and dialects, provided by The British Library
Yale Works of Samuel Johnson
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson was founded in 1955 to make accurate texts of Johnson's complete works widely available. This resource gathers together these original works online. The texts are tagged and fully searchable.
Features include:
- Johnson's debates, poetry, sermons, literary criticism and essays
- Ability to search by genre or chronologically
- Create a free account to annotate and tag the texts
The Internet Grammar for English
The Internet Grammar for English: an online course in English grammar for university students
The Poetry Archive
An online resource providing recordings of poets reading their work.
English Words in Wartime
This blog, based on the 1914-18 notebooks and files of Andrew Clark, looks at the impact of war on the English Language.