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.
Bibliomania:
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.
Poets.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.
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.
e-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.
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.
Poet'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.
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.
Poets.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 TheRime 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.
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