LitRefs highlights

• "truly excellent website" - Michael Donaghy
• "often cited as an extremely useful resource" - Orbis
• "a very useful set of literary references" - Magma 19
• "a vast and well-organised collection of links" - Poetry Review 90.4
• "invaluable" - PN Review, V29.4, 2003
• "very thorough, up-to-date & wide-ranging, with a huge range of resources", Greatworks, 2004

Links have been selected as much for their durability as anything else, and I've not aimed for completeness. If a site has worthwhile material I've added it even if the site might also contain dubious material.

At the start of 2011 I copied a lot of the material into blogs. I'm gradually shutting down part of this site.

Some statistical snapshots

• In March 2001 the most popular pages were the main lit page (accessed 769 times) and the Quotes page (492 accesses).
• By January 2003 the top pages were Poetry (915) and Allusions (857).
• In February 2004 the top 6 pages accessed were Allusions (1522), Poetry (1017), Metaphor (728), Quotes (640), Reviews (588), and the main page (541).
• In February 2005 the top 6 pages accessed were Allusions (2702), Quotes (1387), Reviews (934), Metaphor (848), Poetry (842), and Sport Poetry (766).
• In February 2006 the top 6 pages accessed were Allusions (4048), Quotes (1332), Metaphor (1203), Sport Poetry (1121), Poetry (971), and Reviews (873).
• In February 2007 the top 6 pages accessed were Allusions (4825), Metaphor (1768), Quotes (743), Reviews (568), UK mags (552) and Sport Poetry (543).
• In February 2008 the top 6 pages accessed were Allusions (1780), Metaphor (1726), Quotes (676), UK mags (543), the main page (539) and Sport Poetry (480).
• In February 2009 the top 6 pages accessed were Metaphor (1614), Allusions (1484), Theory reviews (790), Getting published (719), UK mags (608) and the main page (537).
• In February 2010 the top 6 pages accessed were Metaphor (1883), Dante (1080), Getting published (795), Allusions (736), the main page (690) and Quotes (631)