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Full-Text Collections
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Bartleby Library: Great Books Online 
 Includes thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain, as well as close to 100,000 quotations. Resources are carefully edited to ensure accuracy of data entry. A trustworthy place to locate classic works. Searchable and browsable. http://www.bartleby.com/ Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry Last updated May 9, 2005 Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920
The Bartleby project has put online the complete text of the anthologies: The Oxford Book of English Verse , 1919; Yale Book of American Verse , 1919; Modern British Poetry , 1920; Modern American Poetry , 1919; The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse , 1917; Anthology of Irish Verse , 1922; The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse , 1918; Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century , 1921; and The Golden Treasury , 1921. Also the full texts of the works of more than two dozen poets from Rupert Brooke to William Butler Yeats. Searchable, and indexes include chronologic, author, title, and first line. http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Poetry Last updated Aug 4, 2004 Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
This site features information about the life and works of early 17th century playwright and poet Ben Jonson. Includes a biography, bibliography, the full-text of poems and plays, critical essays, and links to additional information about Jonson. From Luminarium. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Performing Arts, Poetry, Writing Last updated Oct 5, 2004 Bibliomania
Find searchable full-text editions of thousands of classic works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry; some reference titles and contemporary articles; plus study guides and book notes for standard high school and college assigned reading. "Bibliomania is supported by an Academic Board which comprises leading literature professors from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Oxford universities." http://www.bibliomania.com/ Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry Last updated May 9, 2005 British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
Full-text editions of works of nearly 60 British and Irish poets. Searchable, and browsable by author. Created by librarian Nancy Kushigian at the Shields Library, University of California, Davis. http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People: Women, Poetry Last updated Jul 6, 2006 Canadian Poetry Archive/Archives de Poésie Canadienne
"Selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets," searchable and browsable by poet, title, and date. Also searchable by keyword in poem. Includes a list of poets, biographies of prominent Canadian poets, and related poetry sites. Available in English and French. From the National Library of Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canvers/ Topics: Authors by Region, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Jul 30, 2008 Don Marquis
Don Marquis was "a newspaper columnist, humorist, poet, playwright, and author of about 35 books of which the best known are books of humorous poetry about Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat." This site contains a chronology, selected Archy and Mehitabel stories, and links to other full-text works and related sites. http://www.donmarquis.com/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry, Writing Last updated Mar 30, 2006 Early and Clairvoyant Journals by Hannah Weiner
Images of hundreds of pages or works by Hannah Weiner, a "largely unknown and practically unread" author who invented "large-sheet poetry" (also called "avant-garde journalism"). Weiner's work is described in the lengthy introductory essay as "stemming from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gertrude Stein's radical narrative theories." From the Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego. http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/m504/ Topics: Poetry Last updated Sep 13, 2006 Electronic Books
An annotated directory of links to full-text book collections on the Internet. Categories include English literature, philosophy and religion, poetry, world literature, and more. From the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry Last updated Apr 3, 2005 George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1788-1824
Selections from the letters and journals, other prose, and poetry of "the most prolific and controversial of the great English Romantic poets." Include the full texts of Byron's "Cain: a Mystery" and E. H. Coleridge's biography of Byron (from the 1905 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica). Also features a few links to both serious and fun Byron sites. http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/byron.html Topics: Authors by Region, Correspondence, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature & Books, Mysteries and More, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Sep 14, 2006 Internet Poetry Archive
Selected poems by Philip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur. Includes brief biographies and audio and video files of the poets reading their works. Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council. http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/ Topics: Notable People, Poetry Last updated May 31, 2006 Milton Reading Room
Provides "most of Milton's major poetry in English and some of his prose. Many, but not all of the works presented here have been fully annotated." The works provided include sonnets and Paradise Lost . There is a fine bibliography of Selected Criticism and links relating to biographical, chronological, and other historical perspectives of Milton. From the English Department at Dartmouth College. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literature & Books, Literature by Place, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry Last updated Jun 19, 2002 The Modern English Collection
A collection of thousands of full-text works of English and American "fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present." Searchable, and browsable by author, and subject (African Americans, Native Americans, women, Civil War, Thomas Jefferson, young readers). From the University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/ Topics: Correspondence, History, Poetry, United States History Last updated May 20, 2007 An Online Library of Literature
A collection of literary classics in full text, including the works of L. Frank Baum, Honore de Balzac, the Bronte sisters, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Charles Darwin, Rene Descartes, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Milton, Jack London, and others. Works are added regularly. "This site is maintained by enthusiasts." http://www.literature.org/ Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry Last updated Jul 21, 2006 Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, has compiled a list of poems that can be read aloud to students every day school is in session. Each poem, selected "with high school students in mind," has publishing and copyright information related to it. From the Library of Congress site. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Poetry Last updated Oct 25, 2004 Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
A collection of full-text Union and Confederate poetry and songs indexed by title, author, and first line. Information about some of the authors is available. Find lyrics, sound files, a history of Taps and Civil War Band Music, popular songs of the day, links to other sound files, and a discussion of "How Authentic Should Period Music Be?" Includes related links. http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Music, Musical Genres, Poetry, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 7, 2005 Poetry Archives
Contains thousands of full-text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from many poets. Searchable by author, title, and first line; browsable by author. http://www.emule.com/poetry/ Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry Last updated Jun 29, 2007 Poets' Corner
Over 6,500 poems, representing the work of almost 800 poets, have been compiled at this site. The collection of English-language poems is indexed by author, title, and subject. The "Daily Poetry Break" (archived from the end of 1997) highlights a poem found within the "Poets' Corner," with brief commentary. Minimal biographical information, supplemented with a growing collection of portraits, is provided. http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/ Topics: Authors by Region, Poetry Last updated Oct 25, 2004 poets.org: For Educators
Resources for educators about teaching poetry, including teaching tips, lesson plans "developed and tested by high-school teachers," essays, hundreds of full-text poems, links to related resources, and discussion forums "in which users can post strategies for and ask questions about teaching poetry at the primary, secondary, and university level." From the Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/6 Topics: K-12 Education, Lesson Plans, Poetry Last updated Jun 8, 2005 Representative Poetry Online (RPO)
An anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the present, which includes thousands of poems by hundreds of authors. Works are indexed by poet, title, first and last lines, date, and keyword. Also includes a timeline, calendar of significant events (births, deaths, publications) in the history of poetry, glossary of poetic terms and forms, criticism by poets and readers, and bibliography. From the English Department at the University of Toronto. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/ Topics: Poetry Last updated Apr 20, 2006 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 - including nineteenth and twentieth century American. There is also a timeline which places important sonnet writers, pictures, essays about the sonnet form, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's translation of Folgore di San Gimignano's Of the Months: Twelve Sonnets , criticism, a bibliography, and a listening room with RealAudio recordings. Most sonnets use modernized language. Searchable. http://www.sonnets.org/ Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry Last updated Dec 12, 2000 |
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