Poetry
Helpful Tools for Thinking About Poetry
To help you analyze: Critical Reading: Poetry
Information on 450 poets and 1200 poems. Some are available in audio format.
This site offers about 175 volumes of American verse published prior to 1920.
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
This is a superb poetry collection whcih contains numerous separate selections of poetry. This site is easy to use and to browse.
The Atlantic Online (Fiction and Poetry)
The Atlantic Monthly is a magazine that introduces people to some of the best poems and poetry in the English language.
This site offers a hypertext archive of scholarly editions of Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry.
This site is a project to design and develop highly accurate and reliable electronic editions of works published by British women poets between 1789-1832.
Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
This site offers selected poems from a number of living poets around the world. The section for each poet includes audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photo of the poet, and any other graphics that would help explain the poem. Poems are presented in their original language as well as with an English translation.
Modern American Poetry: A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
This site offers a poem a day for high school students and offers a poetry and literature center with ideas for teacher use. These poems are currently being put in the Male High School elevator and on the wall by the library daily.
This site offers an excellent collection of the great poets of the English language and includes about 2500 English poems by 403 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the works of living poets today. Poetry has been selected with editorial comments by members of the Department of English at the Unviersity of Toronto from 1912-1996. Included is an extensive collection of criticism, both in verse and prose forms. The works are indexed by poet, title, date, keyword and first line.
Shadow Poetry: Types of Poetry
Twentieth Century Poetry in English
A collection of information and links relating to over 150 poets who write in the English language.