Knowledge: electronic text archives
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- arts → literature → electronic text archives
- arts → literature → poetry → poets
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Links
- British Poetry 1780-1910
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html - A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
- Poetry Through the Ages
http://www.geocities.com/net_skater1/ - Collection of well known poems categorized by subject: love, religion, myth and fantasy, nature, children, philosophy, love of country, war. Section for submission of personal poems to be included on site.
- CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse
http://eserver.org/poetry/ - Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.
- Poetry
http://www.raingod.com/angus/Poetry/index.html - Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
- Poetry.com.au
http://www.poetry.com.au/ - Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.
- Poetry
http://www.geocities.com/johbeil/poetry_index.html - A collection of poetry by Djuna Barnes, Robert Steiner, Peter Schjeldahl, Patrick Carrothers, James Inskeep and others.
- World Wide School: Literature-Poetry
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-poetry.html - Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.
- The Poetry Searcher
http://www.glaced.digitalspace.net - Searchable database of poems from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Good for English translations of non-English poems.
- The Poetry Place
http://www.theofficenet.com/~jack/arts/ - Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.
- Poem of the Week
http://www.potw.org - Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.
- Random Poems
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2464/randindx.html - Extensive personal selection of public domain poems by poets including Ben Jonson, John Keats and John Milton.
- LionHeart
http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/ - Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
- Chesil's Favorite Poetry
http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/ - An archive of classic poetry including Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Coleridge. Includes brief biographies and personal commentary.
- Poems
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/poems/ - Personal and eclectic online collection of poems by many well-known authors and songwriters.
- eMule.com: Poetry Archives
http://www.emule.com/poetry/ - Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.
- Poetic Miscellany
http://www.angelfire.com/co3/poeticmiscellany/ - Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.
- EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/ - Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.
- Contemporary American Poetry Archive
http://capa.conncoll.edu/ - Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
- Rhythm and Pain
http://members.tripod.com/~Raincloud771/poetry.htm - Archive of poetry and lyrics by a variety of poets and songwriters including Leonard Cohen, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan.
- Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ - American and English works between 1250 and 1920. Offers numerous anthologies including "The Oxford Book of English Verse", the "Yale Book of American Verse" and "Modern American and British Poetry".
- Bibliomania Poetry Archive
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/frameset.html - An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
- Digital Poets Society
http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127848/main.htm - Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.
- Categorized Poetry by Pros
http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Poetry.html - Collection of mostly humorous but sometimes sentimental poetry by authors such as Housman, Herrick, Cope, and Chesterton, sorted by categories such as Advice, Animals, Death, and War.
- Billie Dee's Electronic Poetry Anthology
http://www.geocities.com/billiedee2000/anthology.html - Collection of primarily 20th-century works with photos, biographical notes and links.
- Dream Wine
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lavie/dreamwine/ - Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.
- The Poem Tree
http://www.poemtree.com/ - Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
- Womenpoets
http://www.geocities.com/womenpoets/ - Biographies and selected works of thirty women poets from various countries.
- The Wondering Minstrels
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels - Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.
- Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/ - Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
- The Compendium
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/ - Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.
- A Small Anthology of Poems
http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/index.html - Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
- Poetry 180
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ - A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.
- Poetry Archive
http://www.poetry-archive.com/ - Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
- Poems, Short Stories, Quotes
http://www.metalvortex.com/poems/index.htm - A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.
- Anthology of Poetry
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm - Contains about 650 poems by 117 great poets.
- Snap Dragon Poetry Corner
http://www.snap-dragon.com/poetry.htm - A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".
- Canadian Poetry Archive
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canvers/index-e.html - Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.
- Poetry In Translation
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/ - An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.
- Poetry X ยป Poems
http://poetry.poetryx.com - Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.
- Classic Poetry Treasure Chest
http://jollyroger.com/classicalpoetry - Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.
- Our Favorite Poems
http://www.kyphilom.com/www/poems.html - Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.
- Internet Poetry Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/ - Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
- Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm - Collection of poetry, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Indexed by poet, title and first line.
- American Verse Project
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/ - Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.
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