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Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks in epub and Kindle eBooks format which you may download or read online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

The Library of Congress has many freely available digitized resources. Literature-related collections include the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, Author Websites Web Archive, Walt Whitman Papers, and ten plays by Zora Neale Hurston.

A free online learning resource that provides access to the British Library’s unique literary and historical collections. A diverse range of collection items, including unique contemporary manuscripts, letters, rare printed books, playbills, maps and paintings, gives users insights into writers' imaginations. Also discusses important themes from each period of literature.

an Open Educational Resource from the University of Oxford that makes a substantial collection of literary themed learning resources available for global reuse. Thousands of resources are available, including audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and ebooks, and background contextual resources.

Look up any word used in Shakespeare's works to find its definition, its spelling and syntax in both original and modern text, frequency of use, and much more. Also contains full text of all plays, with synopses, and diagrams that outline character interactions for all the plays. Note: 20 page views are free, then a purchased "ticket" is required.

A digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays. Read or download pdf or digital text. XML code also available

A creative and critical collaboratory for reading Dickinson's material and for featuring new critical and theoretical work about Emily Dickinson's writings, biography, reception, and influence.

Drawing on the resources of libraries and collections from around the world, the Whitman Archive is the most comprehensive record of works by and about Whitman and endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

Collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

Includes a digital collection of published works by 19th-century black women writers, biographies for each author, citations and much more

The American Writers Museum lists a number of author websites, as well as literary organizations, awards, and festivals.

A vast collection of Canadian literature, including translations of works into other languages. Holdings also include manuscripts, galley proofs, letters, audio and video recordings, book illustrations, photographs, journals and notebooks. The collections also cover small literary presses, private presses and the book arts and include books and periodicals about Canadian literature and its history.

This site profiles Canadian writers who are studied in university courses in English, French, Comparative Literature, and others. Find brief biographies, bibliographies, research papers and selected links.

Full-text historical content about Canada, including books, magazines and government documents. Areas of collection strength include women’s history, indigenous history, exploration and anthropology, immigration, Canadian literature, genealogy and local history, military history, law, politics, and medicine.

Database of information about Canadian actors, playwrights, directors, producers, designers, theatre organizations and institutions, composers and plays available to the world.

An open access and flexible learning resource that helps students critically engage with Canadian literature while encouraging and promoting independent study. CanLit Guides provides first- and second-year university students with information, resources, and exercises addressing literary theory, Canadian literary history, and works of Canadian fiction, non-fiction, and drama.

Canada's first online bilingual poetry audio archive. Database contains a sampling of audio recordings of Canada's most acclaimed poets reading from their works, as well as transcripts of poems and photographs.

Produced by the University of Toronto Libraries, Canadian Poetry Online is a collection of poetry from published contemporary and 19th century Canadian poets. Contemporary poets have selected their poetry and provided biographies.

Poets.org is was launched in 1996, becoming the original online resource for poems, poets' biographies, essays about poetry, and resources for teachers. Sign up to their email list to have a poem delivered to your inbox every day.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. Contains many poems in full text, as well as articles, podcasts, videos, and poetry collections.