Books, Literature, Poetry

Poetry

Bartleby Verse
Search for the full text of poems from out of copyright collections. Select the 'authors' tab to find brief information about poets.
http://www.bartleby.com/ verse/

BBC Poetry Season
BBC site on poetry and poets. No longer updated but still contains
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ poetryseason/

First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. Includes primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ ww1lit/

Poetry Archive
Recordings of poets reading their own works. You can listen free to contemporary poets and to voices from the past, including, for example, Tennyson, Kipling and Yeats. Also includes the text of poems, poems listed by subject categories, information about poets, resources for students and a children's poetry archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/

Poetry Library
The Poetry Library (research, lending and enquiries) based in the Royal Festival Hall London, houses the national collection of British poetry for the twentieth and twenty-first century. International poetry in translation is also available. Under 'Enquiry and Information', you will find lists of: poetry magazines, publishers, competitions, bookshops and London based groups and workshops.
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk

Poetry Society
How to join, plus details of competitions, workshops, events (including National Poetry day details), excellent links to other sites about poetry including 'Twentieth century' and 'Pre-twentieth century poets', and taster poems and articles from the latest edition of Poetry Review.
http://www.poetrysoc.com/

Poets' Corner
Search and browse thousands of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years. Well-known and lesser known poets. Works range from medieval ballads in middle English to traditional ballads, popular songs of centuries past, and interpretations of American Indian chants
http://www.theotherpages.org/ poems/

Representative Poetry Online
Over 3000 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. You can view by poets' names, by poets chronologically, by title, by first or last line or by keyword
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/ display/

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