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Other Poetry Collections
Poets' Corner (Steve Spanoudis, et. al.) - A venerable website including both popular classics ("Hiawatha", "Invictus") and the standard, accepted-as-great ("Ode to a Grecian Urn", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"); 6,700 poems by 780 poets (as of March 2003). Subject categorization of the poems; good search capability. Few additions/updates since 2003.
Bartleby Verse (Bless them for honoring a lowly scrivener!): The complete texts of 26 pre-1920 anthologies and 45 famous, pre-1920 volumes of poetry by individual authors; several thousand poems in total. Plus Bartleby Library: hundreds of complete, pre-1920 books in the categories of Reference, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
Famous Poets and Poems - 23,435 poems by 627 poets, as of Jan. 2007. All time periods. Biographies of poets. Option to sort poems either alphabetically or by number of views. "Top 50 poems". "Poet of the Month". (Added, 12 JAN 2007)
Leon Malinofsky's Page An interesting and valuable site with 40 carefully selected poems along with music, images, True Speech, and certain of the author's own writings.
The Poetry Foundation "Poetry Tool" - As of December 2006: 460 poets, 300 from the 20th century; 3,900 poems; organized by: Category, Occasion, First line, Glossary term, Most popular. Very good, complete biographical information for each poet. The Poetry Foundation is the parent organization of Poetry Magazine . (Added, 23 DEC 2006)
Shalizi's Poetry Collection About 200 good poems by 40 pre-1950 poets
The University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-Line - 4,000 pre-1900 poems by 450 poets; chronologically organized (with author, title, keyword searching, too)
The (emule) Poetry Archives - 5000 classical poems by 141 poets; keyword searching (Added, 22 DEC 2000)
Chadwyck-Healey's LionHeart. 1,000 love poems, from 1500-1900; mostly British. Nicely organized; good tools for searching the poems.
Luminarium Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th century poetry
The Academy of American Poets --Poetry Exhibits - This site and Hishikawa's (see Guides, below) are the places to go on the Web for 20th-century American poets (500 poets). This site has biographical information, poems, and links for each one. (Note: There are some English and some pre-20th-century poets included here as well.)
American Poems About 200 poets of all time-periods,with a biography of each. Many of the poems have visitor-posted comments. As of December 2005: 7891 poems and 9887 comments. (Added, 24 DEC 2005)
Project Gutenberg Texts of more than 27,000 English-language books --mostly literature, mostly pre-1920. More than 370 books with the keyword "poems" in the title.
The EServer Poetry Collection (formerly Carnegie-Mellon University Index of Canonical Verse) mostly pre-1950; many longer poems/books of poems
University of Michigan's American Verse Project 150 American poetry books published before 1920, in their entirety. (Added, 26 JUL 2001)
Bibliomania Poetry Full text of 70 pre-1900 poetry books; mostly British. (Added, 22 DEC 2002)MIT's Internet Classics Archive a searchable collection of over 400 classical Greek and Latin texts (in English translation)
Cosmoetica's Neglected Poets
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About 200 poems by neglected 20th century poets; many good poems not found elsewhere.
PoemHunter.com (C E Teymur) About 25,000 poems; both classic and contemporary. (Some by living poets without their permission.) Though the texts are generally correct, there are some mistakes. (Added, 01 JAN 2003)
Poetry Daily - a sampler of contemporary print-published poetry; largely from books under copyright which aren't available elsewhere. (365 poems, the past year's-worth.)
Ludlow Press Poetry About 100 contemporary poems. (Also, art and short fiction.) (Added, 03 FEB 2002)
A Little Archive of Poetry (formerly Pete's Best-Loved Poems). 800 "real" poems: sentimental, rhymed : "Casey At the Bat", "Annie and Willie's Prayer", "Heaven's Grocery Store".
Marion Hennebury's Best-Loved Poems Traditional, mostly 19th century, mostly rhyming poems selected by a Newfoundlander.... Don't miss "The Ride of Jennie M'Neal" (Added, 10 AUG 2002)
Some More Noteworthy Web-Published Poetry Collections:
Poetry Super Highway, .Random Poetry
In the Heydays of His Eyes
An Anthology of Poems about Being Young and Growing Up
Poems for holidays, events, other subjects: .
. Poems and Poetry.com , . Best Quotes and Poems .
Poetry Bulletin-boards:
Poetry Scriber:
Online social poetry network; .
Poetry Forums ; .
Prose-n-Poetry.com ; . Midnight Edition ; . Todays-Woman.net . Many other bulletin-boards listed at: Poetry Portal .
Mutual links to various other poetry collections
Tolstoy site Maybe not poetry... but great, great prose. The texts of almost all his works. (Link not working, January 1, 2001.)
Great Books from The Access Foundation;
Great Books Collection.
(Mostly) not poetry ... but lots of great prose.
Virtual streetband Poems of W.H.Auden, and other text, set to music --with interesting animation. (Without a cable modem, these could take a while to download....)
Other Poetry Guides
Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource one of the biggest and best; all periods, 600 links, most with comments by Patrick.
Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (Professor Eiichi Hishikawa, Kobe University, Japan) 159 sites, representing the best-known published poets of the 20th century
Poetry Portal "Poetry Online", "E-zine listings", "Bulletin Boards", "Competitions", "Chit-Chat", and much more. (Added, 20 DEC 2005)
poetry.about.com 1000+ sites (with comments) organized into 30 categories, including: Online Lit Zines & Anthologies the definitive guide to modern, "imagist" poetry on the Web.
The Open Directory Project / Arts/Literature/Poetry Same idea as Yahoo, except better, more descriptive.
Peter Howard's Poetry and Other Links with such categories as "Archives of Established Poetry", "Audio and Video Poetry", "Resources for Poets", and "Bad Poetry". (Added, 20 DEC 2005)
Modern American Poetry An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Added, 22 DEC 2002)
Dana Gioia's "Can Poetry Matter" (from the May 1991 issue of The Atlantic Monthly)
Interview with Dana Gioia: "Paradigms Lost" (from the Spring 1995 issue of ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum)
RJ McCaffery's ramble across several subjects: Poetics, Communication, Poetry,..." (Link not working, Dec. 2006)
"Void"'s Introduction to the Notes to his collection of poems, Ex Nihilo
My discussion of Robert Graves' The White Goddess
The Contemporary Poetry Review
John Tranter's Jacket magazine Twenty issues; mostly contemporary poetry. (Added, 03 FEB 2002)
The Electronic Poetry Review (Added, 01 SEP 2003)
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