HNR 225 / 226 Links

 George Bernard Shaw | World War I | Wilfred Owen and WWI Poets | Erich Maria Remarque | W. B. Yeats | E. E. CummingsT. S. Eliot | Virginia Woolf | Paintings | Samuel Beckett | Paul Celan | Existentialism | A. S. Byatt |
Honors 225 / 226 Syllabus

History Textbook:

Marvin Perry, et al. Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society 6th ed. 2000.  http://college.hmco.com/history/west/resources/students/index.html

European History Sites:

George Bernard Shaw:

GBS biography at Books and Writers:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gbshaw.htm

A short GBS biography
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cmazer/mis1.html

A strange "official" page for a quirky  playwright:
http://www.georgebernardshaw.com/


WW I LINKS

First World War.Com
http://www.firstworldwar.com/ Features:

Prose and Poetry 
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/

Literary Ambulance Drivers in WW I
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/ambulance.htm

Vintage Audio Page
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/index.htm
"Over There" (George M. Cohan)
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/overthere.htm

Photos of the Great War
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm

World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

Features the World War I Image Archive
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/imagarch.html
and "Memoirs and Remembrances"
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir.html
Henri Barbusse: Under Fire (complete book online)
http://home.hccnet.nl/r.ruggenberg/greatwar/books/lefeu/underfire.html

Art of the First World War:
http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/index2.html

Erich Maria Remarque:

A biography of Remarque
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm

Remarque page at First World War.com
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/remarque.htm

Another (short) biography of Remarque
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWremarque.htm

All Quiet on the Western Front Information Page (a student's not bad class page)
http://www.bwdd.com/allquiet/

Wilfred Owen and WWI Poets:
An Introduction to WW I Poetry
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/

War Poems and Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm

Anthem for Doomed Youth (12 British WW I Poets, an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum, London)
http://www.iwm.org.uk/lambeth/anthem/index.htm

The Hydra, Journal of the Craigolockart War Hospital
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/

Lost Poets of the Great War
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/


W. B. Yeats:

Yeats page at Bedford-St. Martin's
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/yeats.htm

Yeats Society of New York Home Page (many useful links)
http://www.yeatssociety.org/

William Butler Yeats: Poems, 1899-1919
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

Contains the text of three volumes of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916), and The Wild Swans at Coole (1919).

The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits: W.B. Yeats
http://www.poets.org/lit/POET/wbyeats.htm

W.B. Yeats, "Easter 1916" (Essay, readings, and text of the poem)
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/soundings/yeats.htm

Easter 1916 Postcards:
http://www.islandireland.com/Pages/history/archives/easter.html

E. E. Cummings:
Webster's Enormous Room page
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/ERoom.html

Spring, the Journal of the E. E Cummings Society
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Index.htm

E. E Cummings page at the Anthology of Modern American Poetry Site (MAPS)


T. S. Eliot:

What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site
http://www.camdenfamily.com/thunder/index.html

TSE: The Web Site (Home of the T. S. Eliot Discussion List, plus a concordance to the Collected Poems)
http://www.missouri.edu/~tselist/

Prof. Stephen Railton's T. S. Eliot page
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/tsehp.html

Texts of Eliot poems, with a brief biography, at Representative Poetry Online (Ian Lancashire, U of Toronto)
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet111.html

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem781.html
The Waste Land
:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem790.html

Exploring The Waste Land
http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html

An Interactive Waste Land Site (too many pop up ads but an interesting hypertext approach)
http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/

Virginia Woolf and Mrs Dalloway:
Links for Mrs Dalloway (E. K. Sparks, Clemson Univ.)
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/dial/T&Vseminar/dallinks.html

Mrs Dalloway study page (Rose Norman)
http://www.uah.edu/woolf/dalloway.html

Mrs Dalloway Tips
http://acweb.colum.edu/departments/english/eng2/woolf/dalloway/dall.html

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): A Short Biography
http://orlando.jp.org/VWSGB/dat/vwbiog.html

A Mrs Dalloway walk in London
http://orlando.jp.org/VWSGB/dat/dwalk.html
Franz Kafka: DasSchloss [The Castle]
http://www.themodernword.com/kafka/index.html
Paintings
Picasso's Guernica: Tesimony of a War (PBS site with historical backgrounds, interviews, sketches) http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/main_guerfrm.html

Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofía National Museum (Madrid, Spain)
http://www.spanisharts.com/reinasofia/picasso/guernica.htm

Picasso's Guernica (detail)
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/picasso/p-picasso23.htm

Pieter Breugel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts")
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/bruegel1/p-brue1-10.htm

Jan Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb (The Ghent Altarpiece) [click on thumbnail image for larger view]
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/e/eyck_van/jan/09ghent/1open.html

The copy of Jan Van Eyck's "Just Judges" (stolen 1934-- cf. Camus, The Fall 128-130)
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/eyck/ghent/b-2.htm

Center panel of Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb (The Ghent Altarpiece):
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/eyck/ghent/c-4.htm
Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot
Apmonia (A Samuel Beckett Site):
http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_intro.html

Samuel Beckett On Line Resources:
http://samuel-beckett.net/

Texts of Waiting for Godot:
http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html

http://www.geocities.com/kamikaze_contralto/Godot/text_files/Act_I.html

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boozer/existentialism/waiting_for_godot_1.html
EVERYTHING YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT WAITING FOR GODOT BUT . . .
http://www.geocities.com/kamikaze_contralto/Godot/text_files/Godot_intro.htm
Paul Celan (Antschel):

The Paul Celan Homepage:
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/celan/

An Interview with John Felstiner, Celan scholar and translator [features Celan reading "Todesfuge."]:
http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=bw&air_date=6/28/01&tmplt_type=show
"After the Disaster" [Stephen Mitchelmore explores the post Holocaust poetry of Paul Celan]
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0900celan.htm

"Celan / Heidegger" Pierre Joris [An essay on one of Celan's most complex late poems] http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/joris/todtnauberg.html
Existentialism:
Albert Camus biography (Books and Writers)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acamus.htm

An interview with Catherine Camus (daughter of Albert, from Spike magazine):
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0397camu.php

Existentialism: an Introduction:
http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/

Jean-Paul Sartre explains it all to you:
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/exist.htm

A. S. Byatt's
Possession:

A. S. Byatt homepage: http://www.asbyatt.com/
includes an essay on the writing of Possession: http://www.asbyatt.com/Posses.htm

Reader's Guide to Possession (Random House)
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679735909&view=rg

About A. S. Byatt
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bhatt/byatt.html

A. S. Byatt's Possession (D. Mesher)
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/jwss.old/possession/
A.S. Byatt's Possession for British and for American Readers
http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic97/nowak/8_97.html

A. S. Byatt links
http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-britauthors/byatt-as.htm

A summary: http://www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/asb_possession.html


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