Student Resources
Academic Research
The best place to do your research is, still, a library: we have a fine one (www.macalester.edu/library), part of a consortium of college libraries in the Twin Cities metro area. We also take full advantage of the world-class research library system at the University of Minnesota, and of the excellent public library systems of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
An array of online research resources can help you find citations, authorities, and primary texts (especially, but not only, poems) in the public domain. The international locus for all online literary reference resources is the Voice of the Shuttle, which collates many webpages, indexes, and full-text sites on topics from the Bible to Chaucer to contemporary world writing. The standard online index for literary criticism remains the MLA International Bibliography, available through the Macalester library site through the online indexes page.
Many texts from before 1922 are available as free e-books from Project Gutenberg.
We are working to develop this sections to provide you with links to reliable, informative websites that may help you with research or provide you with enjoyable reading. If you have links that you would like to share, please contact a a professor.
Classics
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Poetry
The University of Torontošs Representative Poetry Site includes many full-text versions of poems from the Middle Ages to the 1910s. The Academy of American Poets site and Cary Nelsonšs Modern American Poetry site offer useful starting places for research (and enjoyment) of twentieth-century American poets.
18th- and 19th-century American literature
Cornell University Making of Americans Project
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