These are good databases for literature and criticism.

Bartleby 

http://www.bartleby.com

This site provides searchable on-line versions of books of criticim, Bartlett's Quotations, The Riverside Shakespeare as well as many of the works of writers including Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Keats, Sandburg, Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats, Gertrude Stein and H.G. Wells. 

Looky Book!

http://www.lookybook.com/

Looky Book has a bunch of picture books on-line for you to "virtually read" (sounds pretty 21st century when you say it that way, eh?).  This is a great one for those "reat to me, talk to me" projects!