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Poets and Poetry


Poems Texts of many poems, especially pre-c20


Bartleby Library: Great Books On-line. Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry: 1250–1920


Welcome To The Arvon Foundation


poetryclass: the page for teachers of poetry  Introducing poetryclass: an initiative to develop a comprehensive strategy for using poetry in the classroom


Gillian Clarke Homepage
Atlantic Unbound | Soundings | 2001.02.26 - "To His Coy Mistress" - audio To his Coy Mistress - Real Player
Online Symbolism Dictionary This symbolism dictionary endeavors to provide some possible cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context
poetryclass: the page for teachers of poetry - an initiative to develop a comprehensive strategy for using poetry in the classroom
A Poetry Society Project

Ted Hughes Homepage
Poetry from Beowulf to the Present: Forgotten Ground Regained. Alliterative verse - highly recommended
Poetry
CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse
Twentieth-century Poetry in English
Internet information relating to 158 poets
World War 1

EN3309 - Writing of World War I - A comprehensive reading list - but real books, rather than online resources


Counter-Attack : Biography of Siegfried Sassoon by Michele Fry


Counter-Attack : Chronology of WW1 by Michele Fry  I realised that probably there are students of WW1 literature who do not know all the details of what happened when during the First World War so I offer this chronology in the hope of providing those details.


Artist/poet David Jones


The Anathemata - David Jones


English Online - A subscription site, but there is high quality taster material


Norton Topics Online


Explorations: Technology and Warfare


Training Camps


'Break of Day in the Trenches' Welcome Page  Interesting and interactive. A classic for web educators.


An Introduction to WWI Poetry


Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Excellent source for WW1 poetry and background, esp. Owen and Sassoon


Imperial War Museum - the national museum of war and conflict


Links to other WWI and poetry resources


Robert Graves Selection of poems


Robert Graves Trust, Society and Journal


World War I - Trenches on the Web


Directory of /pub/pictures/history/WWI


History Channel


History Channel - speeches


Imperial War Museum - the national museum of war and conflict


Virtual Seminars Path Creation System  This is really interesting. You can create your own interactive path through the Wilfred Owen archive, tailoring the approach to the needs of your own students. Excellent, innovative use of the Web.


The Hydra


CTI Centre for Textual Studies


Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive


Public Record Office


Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature More exciting and innovative work from Stuart Lee. 


Experience of war index

Other Poetry

Poetry CANONICAL VERSE


Shakespeare


Poetry Society of America


TIPP: Poetry Links


Welcome to the William Blake Archive  


Forgotten Ground Regained Excellent site - alliterative verse and much more Paul Deane received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He currently works as a computational linguist for Inquizit Technologies in Santa Monica, California.


EducETH-Heaney,Seamus Includes audio versions of some poems


THE IRISH POETRY PAGE


TIPP: W.B.Yeats


Pre-C20 Poems - e-texts


Seamus Heaney - Bio


The Poetry Society - index


THE TENNYSON PAGE


Thomas Hardy


The Thomas Hardy Association


Ted Hughes Pages - English Studies Leipzig University


Seamus Heaney - Cover Page


The Poetry Book Society - information on English Language poetry and poets in the UK


British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia


THE IRISH POETRY PAGE


Edward Thomas Fellowship


Great Writers and Poets Excellent Links Page - worth further exploration


Louis Macneice


Caveat Lecteur Caveat Lecteur was started to provide a place on the web for poetry lovers unable to find poetry anywhere else. Do read the legal notes carefully.


Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads


Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900. BartlebyVerse, Vol. I THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250–1900
Chosen and Edited by Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH. For many readers, the definitive Anthology.


William Topaz McGonagall-Poet and Tragedian


Philip Larkin


BBC Online - Arts - Poetry. Interesting selection, with readings - Real Player needed
POETRY SEARCH ENGINE - for poets, poetry lovers, would-be poets - classic world poetry - poetry links - poetry discussion forums for critique - haiku generator - good poems, bad poems, best poems, worst poems, love poems, love poetry, hate poems, holiday poems, and more poems!