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British
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 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 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 Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work
The site includes a biography of the poet of the English romantic era; a timeline of his life and work; portraits of him, his friends, and his family; selections from his works; information on his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke, and his lover, Lady Carolyn Lamb; and more. http://englishhistory.net/byron.html Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Sep 26, 2006 Early Stuart Libels
This site provides "early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. ... Though most of the texts are poems of satire and invective, others take the form of anti-libels. ... These poems throw new light on literary and political culture in England in the decades from the accession of King James I to the outbreak of the English Civil War. The edition is divided into chronological and thematic sections." From two history professors. http://www.earlystuartlibels.net/ Topics: History By Place, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry Last updated Oct 15, 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 John Keats: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work
Contents include a biography of the poet; a timeline of his life and work; portraits of him, his friends, and his family; selections from his works; information on his houses in Rome and London; and more on this romantic English poet. http://www.englishhistory.net/keats.html Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Sep 29, 2004 The Kipling Society
The site features information about the life and works of Rudyard Kipling, poet and author of works such as "Just So Stories" and "Kim." Includes a brief biography, chronology, dozens of poems, scholarly articles, notes on Kipling's works, lists of works by and about Kipling, and a glossary of Hindustani, Urdi, and Hindi words found in Kipling's works. From the Kipling Society, a London-based membership organization and library founded in 1927. http://www.kipling.org.uk/ Topics: Authors by Region, Children's Literature, Literature: Fiction, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Oct 18, 2004 Lost Poets of the Great War
Contains brief biographies and poems of World War I poets Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, and Edward Thomas. Includes a chronology of World War I, information on casualties, and a bibliography. From a professor at the Emory University English Department. http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Military, Notable People, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 1, 2004 The Poetry Archive
This British site offers audio files of "English-language poets reading their own work. Some are historic recordings, some have been made specially for the Archive." Browse by poet or name of poem. Includes videos of interviews with selected poets, lesson plans, access to the "Children's Poetry Archive," and links to poetry sites for students and to other material. http://www.poetryarchive.org Topics: Poetry Last updated Mar 25, 2006 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 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 The Swinburne Project
This site is "a searchable electronic edition of the works of [English Victorian poet and writer] Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)." The project currently includes four volumes of Swinburne's poems, and selected items of prose. Browsable and searchable by word or phrase in a work, paragraph, stanza, or verse line. The site also features a brief chronology of Swinburne's life. http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/swinburne/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Tax Has Tenet [Ruined] Us Alle
A Middle English poem about "the poll taxes of 1377, 1379, 1380-81, which were one of the chief causes of the rebellion of 1381." Text and translation by TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages). http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tax.htm Topics: History By Place, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature by Place, Poetry, Tax Filing Season Last updated Jan 18, 2006 The W. H. Auden Society
This Web site offers bibliographies of Auden's books and publications about Auden, lists of recordings of his readings and of operas with libretti by Auden, and archives of the Society's Newsletter . There are links to some of his poems and to other related Web sites. "News of publications and events of interest to Auden's readers...and brief scholarly and interpretive notes may also be found here." http://audensociety.org/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry Last updated Oct 2, 2004 W.H. Auden at Swarthmore, 1940-1972
Exhibit about British poet W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden's time at Swarthmore College, where he taught "from 1942 through 1945, but [where] his relationship with the college endured until his death in 1973." Highlights include a chart from Auden's Romanticism seminar, his call slips and reserve slips at the library, and transcripts from a question-and-answer session with a 1971 class. From Swarthmore College Library. http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/auden/ Topics: Poetry Last updated Mar 17, 2009 Web Concordances
Concordances to selected poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Ancyent Marinere," John Keats' odes of 1819, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience , Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads , and Gerard Manley Hopkins' Poems . Included is an in-depth explanation of what a concordance is. In addition, there are workbooks to be used in conjunction with the poems of Blake, Keats, and Coleridge. From the English Department, University of Dundee, Scotland. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/newwics.htm Topics: Literature & Books, Poetry, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Dec 23, 2003 The Wilfred Owen Association
Considered one of the great war poets, few of Owen's war poems were published during his lifetime, but poet Siegfried Sassoon arranged for the publication of some of Owen's poems after his death; they are studied and admired for their strong themes today. This site includes the poems (with background and commentary), a chronology of his life, a virtual tour with photographs of important places in his short life, and links to other Web resources. http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/home/ Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 29, 2009 |
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