English poetry and E Guide - Resources and Review

Features the text and interpretation of several of the works of Christina Rossetti (1830
1896): the sonnet sequence, Monna Innominata, the novella, Speaking Likenesses, and Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book.
 
A full text version of T S Eliot's series of poems about cats.
 
BCMSV (Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse) is a database of around 4,600 items containing detailed information about the individual pieces of English poetry contained in the 17th and 18th century manuscripts in the Brotherton Collection of Leeds University Library.
 
Full text of Shelley's poems, with a biographical sketch and introductory notes by George Edward Woodberry.
 
Contains the texts of around 5000 poems arranged alphabetically by author. Also includes images of many poets, including W H Auden, Rupert Brooke and Edna St Vincent Millay.
 
Database of ballads, texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales.
 
Full text of Wordsworth's poetry, from Lucy Gray to The Prelude and To a Sky
Lark. Provides a chronological index and an index of first lines.
 
Full text of the poetry of Edmund Spenser, including Complaints, The Fowre Hymnes, and various sonnets. Provides discussion forums on non
dramatic literature of the Elizabethan age, and how best to develop online editions of Spenser's work. Links to related resources, and to a searchable database of the Faerie Queene are included.
 
Full text of Johnson's poems, political writings and essays, including Rasselas, The Life of Pope and Selected Opinions. Biographical and critical works about the writer are also provided, including part of Boswell's Life of Johnson.
 
Literary magazine with reviews, features, new poetry and classic short fiction.
 
Selection of works by medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer (1340
1400), including Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Book of the Duchesse, and the full text of his most famous work, Canterbury Tales.
 
Range of texts and translations of material relevant to Chaucer's works. Provides a chronology of Chaucer and his times, a glossorial database of Middle English, discussion of the language and linguistics of the era, annotated extracts from the Canterbury Tales including original illustrations, and general information on life in the Middle Ages, covering courtly love, pilgrimages, tournaments, and meals.
 
A chronology of the life of World War I soldier and poet Wilfred Owen, with photographs of important places in his short life, maps showing his travels in France and Britain, and links to his poetry about the horrors of war.
 
Poems of Wilfrid Owen, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas, with associated tutorial.
 
A glossary of terms used by medieval writer Geoffrey Chaucer (1340
1400), aimed at those studying his work.
 
Full text of a selection of Hardy's verse, with a Preface by the poet and an index of first lines.
 
Profile of the English poet comprising a biography, a chronology (1795
1821), examples of his poetry including the odes of 1819 and a selection of sonnets, portraits of himself and his family, and transcripts of letters written to Fanny Brawne among others. A critique of his work is also presented, with opinions from various sources.
 
Full text of poetic works with hypertext cross
referencing and annotations. Includes works by Lewis Carroll, A E Housman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde.
 
Anthology of English Literature covering the periods of Middle English (1350
1485), Sixteenth Century Renaissance (1485-1603), and the early seventeenth century (1603-1660).
 
Searchable and browsable archive of Owen's works comprising manuscript pages, letters, interviews with First World War veterans, video footage, and photographs.
 
A chronological history of English poetry, from the early modern English of the Renaissance, 17th century and Augustan periods, though the romantic, Victorian, Georgian and modern eras, and covering the beat generation and postmodern works. Includes information on poetic publications and poets, searchable by author, first line or keyword. Also offers a glossary of poetic terms.
 
Corpus of Marlowe's works, including plays, poems Hero and Leander and The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, his translations of Ovid and Lucan, a dedicatory epistle to Mary, the Countess of Pembroke, and the epitaph of Sir Roger Manwood. Enables users to lay different editions of his plays side
by-side to compare textual variants.
 
Collection of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789, the onset of the French Revolution, and 1832, the passage of the Reform Act, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. Features a browsable list of authors.
 
Full text of Emily Dickinson's verse, with a short preface by Mabel Loomis Todd.
 
Collection of Old English poetry, prayers and songs, including texts from the Exeter Book, the Battle of Maldon and Dream of the Rood.
 
Provides links to the full text of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, and to minor poems and prose. Includes links to images of illustrations and title pages, audio recordings of selected poems, and the full text of articles about the poet. A forum for the discussion of Milton's life and literature is provided.
 
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.
 
Collection of verse and bibliographies of poets writing in English including Auden, Eliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.
 
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.
 
Biographical information about Pinter, the British playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist. Provides details of UK productions of his plays, film reviews, full text poems, and his written opinions on matters such as freedom of speech, Serbia and Kosovo, and Turkey and the Kurds. Also offers material on Pinter's acting and directing work.
 
Directory of resources on Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844
89), including links to societies, conferences, teaching resources, books and book reviews, critical essays, an interactive concordance, and collections of his poetry.
 
Database of poetry texts, arranged by author. Also includes literary theory and criticism and English composition resources.
 
Full text of the Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V Erdman, and Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, with stanza annotations. A slide show of selected poetry and illustrations by Blake is included.
 
Offers Web concordances on poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Gerard Hopkins. Also provides workbooks to help students use the concordances effectively.
 
Collection of poetry and prose written by John Milton in the 17th century. Texts include Upon the Circumcision, On Shakespear 1630, Psalm Translations, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. A bibliography of selected criticism is also featured.
 
Collection of old English poetry, prose, runic and liturgical texts. Also includes a bibliography of reference works and a Modern English to Old English Vocabulary.
 
Full text of all Shakespeare's plays, arranged in the usual three categories: tragedy, comedy and history (based on the arrangement of the Complete Moby Shakespeare).
 
Full text of The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot
 
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.
 
Course material and sample assignments for the teaching and learning of poetry at undergraduate level. Covers topics such as metre, rhythm, control and conformity in verse, annotation, and historical theories of stress. Also available in French.
 
Information about the society's publications, news and events, including National Poetry Day.
 
Full text of Keats' poems, with an introduction and notes by Francis Palgrave. Includes an index of first lines.
 
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