Online Literary Criticism Collection

The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness. For more information, please read about the Literary Criticism Collection.

The Internet is rapidly becoming a viable place to find literary criticism, and we're doing our best to keep up with it; however, we encourage patrons and scholars to let us know as new criticism becomes available.

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Need further sources of criticism? Find help from our Online Literary Criticism Guide for lit crit links.

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