Literature Online is an American and English literature collection and includes a database of full-text literature and criticism covering works of poetry, prose, and drama in English for grades 7-12. Literature Online is provided by Libraries Connect Ohio. Libraries Connect Ohio is a partnership of Ohio’s three statewide library programs, the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN), the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), and the Information Network for Ohio Schools (INFOhio), in coordination with the State Library of Ohio. This collection is housed within the OhioLINK eBook Center, which is using a platform called Biblioboard to read, share, and find content within this collection. The literary works provided in this database are sorted by categories, curations, and modules. More information about how to search within these categories, curations, and modules is in the next lesson, Using Literature Online.
Poetry Curations and Modules:
20th Century African-American Poetry - This collection of poetry written by important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century includes Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Rita Dove, and many others.
20th Century American Poetry - This collection of poetry includes the works of Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Olds, and more.
20th Century English Poetry - This collection includes poetry from 1900 to the present day and includes the works of Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, James Joyce, and many others.
African American Poetry 1760-1900 - This collection contains African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, George Boyer Vashon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
American Poetry 1600-1900 - This collection contains poetry from the Colonial period to 1900 including Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and many others.
English Poetry 600-1900 - This collection contains poetry from the 8th century to 1900 and includes works by Robert Dodsley, Walter Scott, Francis Turner, and others.
Drama Curations and Modules:
American Drama - This collection offers works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century including William Dunlap, John Howard Payne, Thomas Paine, and many others.
English Verse Drama 13th-19th Centuries - This collection contains plays from authors such as James Shirley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Doubleday, and many others.
Prose Curations and Modules:
Early American Fiction 1774-1850 - This collection contains works that have been published digitally from original, rare books from the works of James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many others.
Eighteenth Century Fiction - This collection contains works of English prose from 1700-1780 in the key areas of epistolary novels, novels of sentiment, documentary fiction, allegorical narratives and satires, and gothic novels including authors such as Frances Burney, Charlotte Lennox, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Clara Reeve, and many others.
English Prose Drama 1280-1915 - This collection contains novels from Thomas Morton, Theodore Edward Hook, John Oxenford, Oscar Wilde, and many others.
Other Curations and Modules:
The Bible in English - This contains nine versions of the Bible.
Bibliography of American Literature - This provides records of more than 37,000 literary works of more than 281 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930.
Shakespeare - This collection contains eleven editions and 28 separate printings of individual plays and poems by William Shakespeare.
William Butler Yeats - This collection contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism, and fiction.
You can use Literature Online on a computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device with internet access.
To find Literature Online:
When accessing Literature Online, after clicking on the open button, an INFOhio login page will appear. If this occurs simply provide your district's INFOhio username and password to access the resource. If you are unsure of your district's INFOhio username and password watch this video on how to find it. Accessing Literature Online from school will authenticate through your school's IP address and this login page should not appear.
INFOhio also provides an alternative method to access Literature Online available for users with additional security measures in place.
Sharing Links to Licensed Resources
INFOhio's licensed digital content is password protected to ensure it is accessible for Ohio teachers, parents, and students only. Sharing the correct link for the content and resource is important to provide seamless access. In this video, learn how to share Literature Online with students.
Cornell Notes
As you are going through the next three lessons, consider keeping track of the questions you have and jotting down notes as you find answers and additional information using the Cornell Notes Template. This template can be found in the exercise files below.
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