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Poetry Project

Librarians' Index to the Internet  Search on Poetry              

 

 

          

Academy of American Poets  This site features "Find a Poet" - a searchable index of more than 200 poets, with biographies, photos, poems, and some sound files.

American Verse Project More than 150 volumes of American verse prior to 1920 online. Searchable.

BBC Poetry on Display A showcase of visual poetry

Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920. The Bartleby project has put online the complete text of many previously published anthologies.  You will also find the full texts of the works of more than two dozen poets from Rupert Brooke to William Butler Yeats. This database is searchable; the indexes include chronologic, author, title, and first line.

Introduction to Representative Poetry. A historical anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, which includes over thousands of poems by hundreds of authors. Works are indexed by poet, first line, title, date, and keyword. Also includes a timeline and calendar of significant events (births, deaths, publications, etc.) in the history of poetry and a glossary of poetic terms and forms.

Library of Congress Poetry for High School Students

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry.

The Poetry Archives. Contains over 3700 full-text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from 145 poets, searchable by author, title, and first line.

Representative Poetry Online

RPO is hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries ( Canada )

Sonnet Central. Created as a labor of love, for poetry lovers, this extensive collection of English language sonnets can be approached from different points: an alphabetical list of authors, by time period for sonnets from Great Britain, and by geographical area for everywhere else.

Litfinder remote access requires password

Critical Reading & Biographies

Biography.com Find biographies of 1500+ poets.

Glossary of Poetic Terms.

POETRY FORMS AND TERMINOLOGY

A compendium fo links to sites that define, explain, and give examples of a variety of poetic forms.

Critical Reading: A Guide. This is a basic guide to what you might look for in analyzing poetry. Includes sections on genre, speaker, structure, setting, and imagery. Also has a section on writing an analytical essay.

Shadow Poetry.  Be sure to check out the Resource section where you will find a Poetry Handbook that provides definitions of poetic terms, and Types of Poetry that defines each type and in most cases gives an example.

Student Resource Center Gold

Sites For Pictures

The Amazing Picture Machine

Artcyclopedia

Google Image Finder

Microsoft Clip Art