Poetry Resources
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- The Academy of American Poets Here you'll find information and poetry by American poets as well as essays on poetry and writing poetry.
- American Poems Read poems and get profiles of American poets past and present.
- Bob's Byway: A Poetic Diversion Contains a glossary of poetic terms and tips on how to read poetry.
- Eighteenth Century Poetry Over 3,000 poems by 320 eighteenth century poets are featured here with analytical essays.
- Internet Poetry Archive Listen to poets recite their poetry! Poets includes Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
- National Poetry Library Poets T. S. Eliot and Herbert Read with the Arts Council opened this British library in London in 1953. There are over 70 pages of poetry in the Online Poetry section.
- Open Street Map Haiku This fun site creates haiku poetry based on where you place the map.
- Oxford Book of Ballads Arthur Quiller-Couch selected and edited this anthology of ballads in 1910.
- Oxford Book of English Verse Online version of the 1919 edition of Arthur T. Quiller-Couch's compilation of English poetry.
- The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse Online verson of the 1922 publication of Arthur T. Quller-Couch's collection of poetry from the Victorian period with selections by Walter Savage Landor, John Clare, George Darley, Thomas Hood, William Barnes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.
- Poetry Atlas A collection of poetry about places organized on a Google map.
- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States Contains a collection of poems written during the Civil War by Northern and Southern poets.
- Poetry Daily An online anthology of contemporary poems. A new poem is highlights each day.
- Poetry Foundation This foundation publishes Poetry magazine. Many poems featured in the magazine can be found on this site.
- Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools The Library of Congress and Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins, have selected 180 poems, one for each school day, that could be read in class.
- Poetry Through the Ages Explores the evolution of poetry from ancient times to present day.
- Poetseers Wow! There's a lot here to browse. You can read poems and learn about a variety of poets and their works.
- Poets' Corner A collection of over 6700 poems from poets all over the world.
- Representative Poetry On-Line Over 3000 poems by 500 poets can be found here as well as a glossary of poetic terms, criticism, and a timeline of the history of English poetry. It is hosted by the University of Toronto.
- The World's Best Poetry An online edition of Carman Bliss's 1904 nine volume compilation of poetry divided into themes: home and friendship, love, sorrow and consolation, religion and faith, nature, fantasy, descriptive and narrative, patriotism, and tragedy and humor.
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Individual poet sites can be found in American Literature or British Literature pages.
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- Modern American Poetry Get biographies of 161 modern American poets from this site.
- Poets of Cambridge, USA Provides biographical information on poets from Cambridge, Massachusetts area including Henry Adams, Katherine Lee Bates, Robert Frost, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau and more.
- Poets.org From the Academy of American Poets, here you can find biographies of hundreds of poets and read thousands of poems.
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