Criticism

Sub-headings:

Literary Criticism Blogs

Web logs devoted to criticism of literature from classical to contemporary.

Resources in this category:

BookRags.com
http://www.bookrags.com/

BookRags.com provides free classical study guides, book notes, eBooks and essays. It covers the subject areas of English, History, and Math & Science in an easily-searchable format.

bookreporter.com
http://www.bookreporter.com/

Browse by category or search for recent book reviews, excerpts, and author interviews, done just for the Bookreporter. Reviews range from a paragraph to a page with the longer reviews being signed.

Bookslut
http://www.bookslut.com/

Proclaiming a deep love of books and promising to judge judiciously, this site is both a monthly web magazine and a daily blog, providing news, reviews, and commentary. The site was created by the magazine's editor-in-chief, Jessa Crispin.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

"The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the English language. Compiled over fourteen years, from 1907 to 1921, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole."

FreeBooknotes.com
http://www.freebooknotes.com/

"FreeBooknotes.com is dedicated to finding all of the sites with free book notes (similar to "cliff notes") and indexing all the individual free study guides and free book summaries for you on one easy to navigate site. What we've done is gone through all these reputable book summary sites and added a link to each individual guide on our page for that book."

Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm

Modern American Poetry is a collaborative effort that aims to provide "a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time." One can find biographical information, bibliographies, criticism, commentary, and links to online copies of works on major modern American poets.

The New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com...

Over 50,000 book reviews back to 1980 from the famed New York Times Book Review are archived and searchable, plus special Web-only features. Registration required.

T.S. Eliot: The Sacred Wood : Essays on Poetry and Criticism
http://www.bartleby.com/200/

A volume of literary criticism by the landmark modernist poet, T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot writes about literature, his thinking is strongly influenced by his philosophical training. To grasp Eliot's philosophy would require a lifetime of study. However, one can begin to get a feel for his ideas through a study of this famous work of criticism.

Undergraduate Guide to Critical Theory
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/index.html

A guide to some major schools of critical theory; provides examples of their usage. Features links to other critical theory sites.

Voices from the Gaps
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/index.html

This site promotes women writers and artists of color. It was designed and is maintained by the University of Minnesota and contains biographies and literary analysis of the artists' work. The site also has blogs from the artists and recorded interviews. Though much of the analysis is done by students at the university, it is a good place to start research about these artists and writers.