Virtual Travel for Students of Literature

Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey

The English Department at San Jose State University has created Literary Locales, a web site that links to over 1,000 pictures of “places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors.” It could be organized more effectively, and some of the links are broken, but there are some great images indexed there. It’s a terrific site for those studying or teaching literature.

Take a look at some of the destinations:

• From one of their Shakespeare pages:
  • Shakespeare’s Birthplace
  • Shakespeare’s Globe
  • Hamlet’s Elsinore

• Various other links:
  • Don Quixote’s Windmills
  • Samuel Johnson’s House
  • Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey

There are hundreds of links, and you could spend hours virtually visiting these literary locations.