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Project Bartleby

Subject Area:

Language Arts

Address/URL:

http://www.bartleby.com

Description:

Named for Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, this site makes public-domain literature easily accessible over the World-Wide Web.

Project Bartleby's layout allows you to find works easily. For example, you can read the complete poetical works of William Wordsworth, all indexed chronologically or by first line. You can also find biographical information and portraits of most of the authors at this site.

How You Can Use This Source:

Read poetry by T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, and others.
Reference Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Strunk's The Elements of Style.

Go to Project Bartleby.