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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/blake/william/drawings-and-engravings/
eBooks The Rover Part II https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/b42r2/
eBooks Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/politics-vs-literature/
eBooks Charles Dickens George Orwell https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/charles-dickens/
eBooks Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/man-could-stand-up/
eBooks Parade's End: No More Parades https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/no-more-parades/
eBooks Parade's End: Some Do Not... https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/some-do-not/
eBooks The Good Soldier https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/good_soldier/
eBooks The Fifth Queen Crowned https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/fifth-queen-crowned/
eBooks Privy Seal: His Last Venture https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/privy-seal/
eBooks The Fifth Queen; and how she came to Court https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/fifth-queen/
eBooks The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/conrad/joseph/inheritors/
eBooks Romance https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/conrad/joseph/romance/
Other Modernists' Perception of the Past (wiki article) Greg LaLuna https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Modernists%27+Perception+of+the+Past
Other Imagism and Modernism and Beyond (wiki article) Greg LaLuna https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Imagism+and+Modernism+and+Beyond
Handout/Transcript Modernism Chronology Carol Peaker https://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/documents/modernism-chronology
Handout/Transcript Some Features of Modernism (1890–1939) (handout) Carol Peaker https://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/documents/some-features-modernism-1890%E…
Video Modern Poetry - T.S. Eliot cont. (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-11
Video Modern Poetry - T.S. Eliot (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-10
Video Modern Poetry - Marianne Moore cont. (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-18
Video Modern Poetry - Marianne Moore (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-17
Video Modern Poetry - Imagism (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-8
Other Publication — is the Auction https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Publication_%E2%80%94_is_the_Auctio…
Audio Poems: Series One, by Emily Dickinson (reading) https://archive.org/details/poems_series1_dickinson_stl_librivox
Pictures Manuscript of 'A route of evanescense' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Emily Dickinson Poems Book Cover https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks Poems, Third Series https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickinson/emily/series3/
eBooks Poems, Second Series https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickinson/emily/series2/
eBooks Poems https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickinson/emily/poems/
Essays Emily Dickinson: Writing it 'Slant' Erin Nyborg
Audio Oscar Wilde's Women Sophie Duncan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Great Writers Inspire Great Writing Alex Pryce https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling Julian Thompson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Pictures Jerusalem https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Little Boy lost https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Ghost of a Flea https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks Carmilla https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lefanu/carmilla/
eBooks The Vampyre https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/polidori/john/vampyre/
eBooks Wit and mirth; or pills to purge melancholy https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A Collection of Poems in Six volumes by Several Hands https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lover's pacquet: ... https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A pacquet from Parnassus: or, a collection of papers https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Essays Miscellanies & 18th century print culture https://digitalmiscellaniesindex.org
Pictures Ezra Pound Passport https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Letter from W B Yeats to Ezra Pound https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Cathay title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Ezra Pound 1945 'mug shot' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks The Divine Comedy: Paradise https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19pa/
eBooks The Divine Comedy: Purgatory https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19pu/
eBooks The Divine Comedy: Hell https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19he/