Poetry
Resources
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GrolierOnline Encyclopedia Database-
See Library for
Logins and Passwords
Database Trials
(Literature Resource Center for
author info)
Poetic Forms
(Examples) Wikipedia: Poetic Form
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Poetic_form
More Examples of
Poetic Forms
http://thewordshop.tripod.com/forms.html
Academy
of American Poets
The "Find a Poet" section currently includes biographies, photos, and other
information on more than 450 poets, and the "Find a Poem" section includes more
than twelve hundred poems, with new ones being added. Many are available in
audio format as well as text. Page on
Forms
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/197
The
Biography Channel
A&E Television
Network has created an index to famous poets.
Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives,
past and present. Includes brief biography, a list of the poet's work and
related websites.
Search by author's last name.
Representative
Poetry Online
This excellent collection of the great poets of the
English language includes about 2,500 English poems by 403 poets from Caedmon,
in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. Poetry has been
selected with editorial comments by members of the Department of English at the
University of Toronto from 1912 to 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.
Author Links From the Chico High
School Library
A special CHS Library collection of links to Web pages on
individual authors, writers and poets. Try here if you don't find your poems in
the sources below.
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
A companion to the text, Anthology of Modern American Poetry, published by
Oxford University Press. The
161 Poet Companion Sites
Section includes "excerpts from previously published analyses of poems,
biographical information, relevant illustrations, manuscripts, drafts of poems,
bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews,
mini-essays on important issues pertinent to the poet, book reviews, archival
resources, and study questions."
Poet Links ( 20th Century Poetry)
This is a
gathering of links to Web sites for most of the major poets. There is an
alphabetical index at the top of the page that will take you to the section of
links for your poet.
American & English Poetry: 1250–1920
This superb poetry collection (at Bartleby.Com)
contains numerous separate collections of poetry. The collections may be
searched by keyword, and browsed via: Indexes to Poems: Chronologic, Author,
Title, First Line. Designed to be easy to browse and enjoy, this site seems
to be steadily growing.
Day Poems
Index by Author
This Web site features a number of poems each day,
and also keeps them available for later reading. See also their
Poems Index by
Title, if you have a title of as poem you want to find.
Internet Poetry Archive
Offers selected poems from a number of living poets
from 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 photograph
of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the
poem (e.g., a map or illustration of a particular place mentioned in the
poem), texts of the poems, a critical biography of the poet prepared by a
scholar familiar with the poet's work, and a short bibliography. Poems are
presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation.
Poetry Archives
@ eMule.com This site
offers links to poems from top poets, not much
biography info though.
Project Bartleby Verse Search
Search the contents of many different books of poetry
collections, for access to poems and articles on the poets.
Rap as a Modern
Poetic Form
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2003/3/03.03.07.x.html
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