Library Book: Literature

Poetry
East meets West with instantly computer-generated Haiku poems
Poet's Corner has Auden (of the elegy in "Four Weddings") and 125 more.
American Verse Project: Search database of selected poets.
Don't judge The University of Toronto's Poetry Index by its cover.
Selected Works, Emily Dickinson
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Walt Whitman

Long Form
Search for Any Book in Print.
Bantam/Doubleday has a daily word puzzle and precises of its books.
Complete Histories, Tragedies, & Comedies, Will Shakespeare
City of Bits digitally published
vh485 digital sci-fi
Cast Upon the Breakers, Horatio Alger, Jr.
King James Bible
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Hacker Crackdown, cyberpunk Bruce Sterling
MobyDick, Herman Melville

Short Form
WORD: IssuesCulturePretension
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
The Gumshoe's Glossary, talk like a noir thriller thug
The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce

Translation Dictionaries
These dictionaries combine extensive vocabularies with simple type-and-search forms:
English/Spanish
English/French
English/German

[N.B. For standard English and specialized dictionaries,
see also, Library Book: Reference.]

Projects
Madlibs: Write your own; the computer assigns the punchline.
Electronic Frontier Foundation Premier Site for New Media Civil Liberties
Taglines Galore! 59,240 brief sayings. Choose your netsig.
Word of the Day:Vocabulary builder or English enhancer? You decide.
What I Believe, J.G. Ballard's desiderata, inspired this exotic hypertext.

Compendiums
Gutenberg Master Index eText project
Columbia University: Project Bartleby Internet's Public Library
The Data Text Library of adult and children's fiction
Author! Author! is a megasite for book worms (or hypertext bugs?).
Poetry & Literature

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