Poetry

Websites for the study of Poetry

Poems all over the place

http://faculty.washington.edu/kendo/poems.html

Includes poems by Evelyn Lau, and others in alphabethical order.

Modern Haiku (Independent Journal of haiku and haiku studies)

http://www.modernhaiku.org

Offers haiku selections, essays and book reviews.

British Poetry, 1780-1910; a hypertext archive

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

Features many links to poetry and works of criticism for senior students. Includes some links to full text poetry.

Representative Poetry Online

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

Features full text poetry as well as writings on poetry by great poets and their readers. Includes a timeline of poets, poems and events, a glossary of poetic terms and forms, and biographical information, with picture, on many poets. Features a section on Canadian poetry, as well as criticism for all poetry.

Academy of American Poets

http://www.poets.org

Full text poems can be browsed by title or first line, or searched. Poets can be browsed alphabetically or searched. Includes biographies of the American poets and lists their works.

Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature - First World War Poetry

http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/

Features a complete digital archive of the World War 1 poetry of Wilfred Owen (poetry, manuscripts, interviews, photographs, letters, etc.). Links to related sites. Searchable.

Poetry Archives

http://www.emule.com/poetry/

Contains over 5048 fulltext classical poems from 153 poets. Searchable by author, title, and first line.

Cyber Quotations

http://www.cyberquotations.com/poems.htm

Provides the full text of an extensive collection of inspirational poems. Some of these are from well known poets, while others are from unknown or unfamiliar sources. Useful for speech writers looking for words of inspiration.

Bartleby

http://www.bartleby.com

Features full text of many great books. Very useful for searching for quotations & poetry from 1250-1920. Poetry can be searched by author, title, first line or chronological time period. Quotations can be searched by keywords or subject. The complete works of T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Keats, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Housman, Walt Whitman, Yeats, Sandburg, Shakespeare, and D. H. Lawrence are included on the site. Also includes many fiction and nonfiction works. Done by Columbia University.

Great Literature Online

http://underthesun.cc/Classics/

Provides online editions of the works of many authors. Features Hans Christian Andersen, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot, Bret Harte, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, and Mark Twain. Includes some biographical information about the authors and links to related sites.

Study guides to various works

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/guides_index.html

While this collection of study guides for a wide range of literature is intended for college students, there is some relevant information for teachers at the secondary level. Literature covered includes science fiction, poetry, 18th and 19th Century European classics, World literature from Africa, India and the Caribbean, Love in the Arts, Bible as literature, etc.

Children’s Literature Web Guide

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown

A compilation of internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Includes an “Authors Online” section giving personal websites of authors. Also includes links to selection aids, award winners, and a wide variety of “Stories on the Web” organized by genre (e.g. songs, poetry, classics, Reader’s Theatre, Christmas stories, etc.).

Modern American Poetry

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

Features an alphabetical list of over 150 poets, along with some themes (e.g. Japanese American Concentration Camp Haiku, Angel Island poetry, etc.). Includes analyses of poems, biographical information, illustrations, manuscripts, drafts, bibliographies, historical background, poetics, archival resources and study questions.

American Literature on the Web

http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm

Provides access to over 300 American authors, with links to their homepages, documents, and samples of their work. Resources are sorted by time period and by type (e.g. poetry, drama, women writers, Canadian authors, etc.).

Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/

This exhibit explores the innovative works of American painters and poets following the end of World War II. The site features essays about each of these groups, with discussions about painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko; and poets from "four overlapping constellations: the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets." Also includes selected images. From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

One Life: Walt Whitman, a Kosmos

http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/whitman/

This exhibit about the poet Walt Whitman features a timeline of Whitman's life illustrated primarily with portraits of the poet. It also includes an introduction to the poet, an essay, audio excerpts from Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," audio of Whitman reading "America," and profiles of some of "Whitman's heirs" (such as jazz musician Charlie Parker and painter Jackson Pollock). From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. (LII, 2007)

poets.org: Walt Whitman

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126

This presentation about poet Walt Whitman includes a biography, a selected bibliography, and the text of some of his poems. Also provides essays about and a reading guide to Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," descriptions of walking tours in New York City, and links to profiles of related poets. From the Academy of American Poets. (LII, 2007)