American poetry and A Guide - Resources and Review

Poetry resource bringing together contents of the Oxford Book of English Verse, Yale Book of American Verse, Modern British Poetry, Modern American Poetry, Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the 17th Century, and Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Indexes to poems are organised according to chronological order, author, title, and first line.
 
Biographical information about prominent American poets arranged alphabetically by surname, along with bibliographies of their work, and excerpts from analyses and drafts of poems. Also offers a selection of modern American poetry course syllabi.
 
Part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark
up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines, with various forms of access provided through the WWW. Poets featured include William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
 
The Poetry Library is located on the South Bank in London, and collects the work of all modern British poets, and also international poetry. Offers information about publications, enquiry services, education, poetry readings and collections.
 
Collection of verse and bibliographies of poets writing in English including Auden, Eliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.
 
Digital images from four of Walt Whitman's notebooks, one of which includes early drafts of Song of Myself.
 
An online resource for poets and writers, including profiles of contemporary writers and information by and about writers and writing. Includes writers groups online, tools for writers, online literature, publishing opportunities, arts advocacy, links to university creative writing programs, literary agents, and more.
 
Dedicated to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the beat generation in Literature.
 
Selected poems from 19th and 20th century English and French language Canadian poets such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Susanna Moodie, Charles G D Roberts, Albert Ferland, Archibald Lampman, and E Pauline Johnson. Provides biographies, bibliographies of prominent poets, and a facility to search by author, title, keyword, and date.
 
Daily anthology of poetry including featured poets and books, poetry news and interviews.
 
Includes links to archives and special collections online, civil war books and magazines, biographies of civil war personnel, a calendar of civil war events, general civil war information, unit and brigade information, diaries and documents, films, games, genealogies, historic sites, maps, music and poetry, photographs, reenactments and stories.
 
Created by Robert Pinsky, the 29th Poet Laureate of the US, this resource features a series of poetry readings. Individuals are featured reciting and discussing their favourite poems, with searchable text versions also available. RealPlayer is required.
 
Set of illustrated poems including Plato's Comeuppance, The Age of Protists, The Mandelbrot Set, To Dian Fossey and The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
 
Verse by contemporary American artists such as Lynn Behrendt, Herm Card, and Anna Marie Kersade. Provides biographies of the poets, a journal discussing postmodern theory and criticism, and memorials of D H Lawrence, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Zappa, and Sappho.
 
Offers original articles and features about poetry, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Emphasis is on North American poets, such as Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman, but does feature Blake, Coleridge and Yeats. Also includes haiku and reviews.
 
A broadly progressive bi
monthly journal of culture and politics with articles on political issues, fiction, poetry, and reviews. Authors include Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Joseph Brodsky, and Robert Pinsky.
 
Database of poetry texts, arranged by author. Also includes literary theory and criticism and English composition resources.
 
American poetry archive designed to make out
of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. Includes works by Daniela Gioseffi, William Matthews, Philip Paradis and Robert Sward.
 
Set of articles addressing aspects of Poe's life in relation to drugs and alcohol, religion, family, friends, and enemies. Offers information on the writer's poems, tales, essays, literary criticism, with a selection of full text versions, and a collection of lectures and articles composed about him. Also provides specific information about Poe in Baltimore, the site of his birth, death, and burial.
 
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