English Language Poetry

General Resources

American Verse Project, 55 volumes of American verse prior to 1920 online (April, 1997). Ongoing project of The University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, along with the University of Michigan Press. Searchable.

The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages, multimedia feature devoted to poets and poetry, both classic and contemporary.

Boston Review

British Poetry 1780-1910, a hypertext archive.

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832. An electronic collection of texts from Shields Library, University of California, Davis.

Chronological Index of Poets by Birth Date, an archive of poems representing the following time periods: Old English and Medieval; 1500-1599; 1600-1699; 1700-1799; and 1800-1899. Poems are also indexed by: Poet; Title; First Line; Keyword; and Criticism on Poetry.

The CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse, from Carnegie Mellon University.

The Contemporary American Poetry Archive, contains the poetry of 19 contemporary American poets (Alexander, Alkalay-Gut, Battin, Colinet, Collins, Dubie, Greenway, Hartman, Johnson, Kessler, Matthews, Morton, Paradis, Pinsky, Ratner, Saltman, Schwartz, Sward, Zolynas).

Dead Poet's Society, selected poems of various English Renaissance poets, including Alexander, Devereux, Donne, Googe, Herrick, Jonson, and Skelton. Dozens more to come.

The Electronic Poetry Center, from SUNY, Buffalo.

Internet Poetry Archive

Leeds Database of Manuscript English Verse [BCMSV], searchable database of 17th/18th-Century English Verse. [login=bcmsv; pw=bcmsv]

LION Complete (Literature Online), searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. From Chadwyck-Healey. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth & Coleridge.

Middle English Compendum (MEC) includes the Middle English Dictionary (MED), the HyperBibliography of Middle English Prose and Verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Proxy Access.

Ploughshares, the literary journal at Emerson College.

Poetry Archives

Poetry Daily, online anthology offering a new poem every day from more than 50 poetry book and journal publishers. Includes links.

Poetry Today Online, an online magazine about writing and reading poetry.

Poetry Magazine

The Poetry Resource, links to poets.

Poet's Corner, boasts a collection of 2,419 Poems from 399 Poets.

Project Bartleby

Literature & Poetry Page

Representative Poetry On-line: Version 2.0. Historical anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, which includes about 1400 poems by more than 200 authors. Works are listed according to poet, title, date, keyword, and first line, with a section on criticism rounding out the collection.