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Literature Databases
The best databases for Literature: Literature Databases.

Literary Criticism Guide
Guide to finding COM Library's best resources for literary criticism: Literary Criticism Guide.

Citation
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BookPoetry 
Access sites on Poetry. Sites are divided into About Poetry and Poetry Collections. Some sites include provide a mix of resources.

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About Poetry
Access sites that are mainly about Poetry: sites that define, interpret or give overviews.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceBartleby.com: Verse
"the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web..." This site includes a full text collection of classic literature and reference works (formerly Project Bartleby). Special interest: Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry, Oxford Book of English Verse, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, and Yale Book of American Verse.

The Beat Page
Your guide to the Beat Generation. This site includes biographies, photographs and works of Beat Generation authors such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and others.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceBibliomania: Poetry
Access the poetry of William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, or Collected French Verse from this commercial site. 

EDSITEment: Poetry
Access top Poetry Websites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities from participating Websites.

Gale: Poet's Corner
Part of Gale's (a publisher of educational material) Free Resources site. Access poems, biographies and more. Special interest: Poet's Biographies, Timeline.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourcePoets.org
From the Academy of American Poets. This site is outstanding. Access biographies, selected bibliographies, exhibits of the poet's work archived at this site and elsewhere, and more. Poets include E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, William Butler Yeats and many more.

RPO: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Part of the Representative Poetry Online site, from the English Department at the University of Toronto.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceUIUC: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
From the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This site was designed to accompany Oxford University Press's Anthology of Modern American Poetry. A comprehensive guide to over 100 poets and their work.

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Poetry Collections
Access sites that mainly collect full text Poetry.

BBCi: Poetry: Poems to make, watch & hear
From BBC Interactive. Access visual poetry, poetry read aloud, create your own poems and more. 

Dead Poets Society
This site is a work in progress currently including the poetry of Donne, Herrick, Johnson and more, and eventually to include even more 16th and 17th century poets.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourcee-poets.network
Founded by Kurt Heintz. This is much more that a collection of poems. Poets can gather here to chat, listen to webcasts and post their work, but you don't have to be a poet to use the site. Anyone can read, listen and view the works of contemporary poets. Features includeThe Incomplete History of Slam, The Book of Voices, Videotheque and more.

ETC: British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
From the Electronic Text Center (ETC) Alderman Library, University of Virginia, get links to poetry such as Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which are archived on site or linked to other sites.

eserver.org: Canonical Verse
Based at the University of Washington, formerly part of the English Server project at Carnegie Mellon. This site has collected full text poetry and some criticism. Authors include such writers as Angelou, Dickinson, and Pope.

Favorite Poem Project
Founded by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States. During the first year open call for submissions, 18,000 Americans wrote to the project volunteering to share their favorite poems — Americans from ages 5 to 97, from every state, of diverse occupations, kinds of education and backgrounds. Read a small sample of poems submitted, view a sample of videos of people reading their favorite poems or submit your own favorite!

HTI: American Verse Project
Part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative site. This portion includes verse by American poets who began publishing before 1920, such as Carl Sandburg and Stephen Vincent Benét. Search the site or browse by author.

The Internet Poetry Archive
Based at the University of North Carolina. Find poems and hear readings from the poets Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.

LOC: Poetry
From the Library of Congress. Access recorded American poetry and literature, the Walt Whitman collection, poems from the Favorite Poem project and much more.

NLC: Canadian Poetry Archive
Biographies of some of the more prominent poets in the database have also been provided. 

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourcePoet's Corner
This site collects links to the works of poets from around the world, with an emphasis on British and American poets. This page is the beginning of the alphabetical listing of the poets by name. Access more of the list by clicking on other letters of the alphabet. Find such poets as Conrad Aiken, Sarojini Naidu, and A.W.E. O'Shaughnessy.

Poetry Aloud: A Directory of Poetry Readings on the Internet
Categories include Poetry in English, Individual Poets and Poetry in Other Languages.

The Poetry Archives
This site archives full text poetry. Many poems also have a link that allow readers to participate in a discussion of the poem. The site is searchable.

Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. Find poems, listen to audio and podcasts, read Poetry magazine and more.

Poetry.org
Learn about the history, meaning, and types of poetry, as well as terms often used when reading and studying poetry.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourcePoets.org
The award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. Poets.org also allows visitors to create their own anthologies of content from our site. Log in and create a Notebook, then fill it with text and audio to make your own poetry library on the web.

Renascene Editions: Lyrical Ballads
Part of the Renascene Editions site from the University of Oregon. This html Etext has been prepared from the original edition of Lyrical Ballads, the Bristol imprint of 1798. Poems include The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, and more.

Representative Poetry On-Line
Based at the Department of English, University of Toronto, Representative Poetry On-line includes about 1,650 English poems by about 260 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. This page is the index by poet page, but other indexes may also be accessed: by First Line; by Title; by Date; by Keyword; or by Criticism on Poetry. Special interest: Glossary of Poetic Terms.

A Small Anthology of Poems
Designed to accompany a course on poetry taught at Western Michigan University, this site has collected the full text of a variety of poems. Find such poets as Plath and Donne.

Sonnet Central
The main portion of this site is devoted to English sonnets divided into the following time periods: Early, Elizabethan, 1615-1780, Romantic Era, Victorian, World War I, Early 20th Century. It also includes links to Sonnets from Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Nineteenth Century Americans and Early Twentieth Century Americans.

Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
This site is based at Kobe University, Japan, created by Professor Eiichi Hishikawa. It has archived some works by W. H. Auden, Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and William Butler Yeats, but also has an excellent set of links to the works of other Twentieth-Century Poetry in English.

VoS: Poetry Studies
From Voice of the Shuttle.

Wikisource: Poetry
Read full text poetry from ancient to modern.

Yahoo! Poetry
Get links to anthologies, epic poetry, poets, sonnets and more. Special interest: Epic Poetry, Haiku, Poets.

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