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Electronic or e-text archives of print-published poetry and related materials which can be found on the internet.

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• A Small Anthology of Poems

  http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/index.html
  Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.

• American Verse Project

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
  Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.

• Anthology of Poetry

  http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm
  Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets.

• Bartleby.com

  http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
  American and English works between 1250 and 1920. Offers numerous anthologies including "The Oxford Book of English Verse", the "Yale Book of American Verse" and "Modern American and British Poetry".

• Bibliomania Poetry Archive

  http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/frameset.html
  An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.

• Categorized Poetry by Pros

  http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Poetry.html
  Collection of mostly humorous but sometimes sentimental poetry by authors such as Housman, Herrick, Cope, and Chesterton, sorted by categories such as Advice, Animals, Death, and War.

• CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse

  http://poetry.eserver.org/
  Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.

• Contemporary American Poetry Archive

  http://capa.conncoll.edu/
  Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.

• Digital Poets Society

  http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127848/main.htm
  Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.

• Dream Wine

  http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lavie/dreamwine/
  Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.

• eMule.com: Poetry Archives

  http://www.emule.com/poetry/
  Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.

• EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry

  http://www.everypoet.com/archive/
  Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.

• Famous Poetry Online

  http://www.famousliteraryworks.com/
  A poetry resource providing famous poems by the world's most popular poets.

• Internet Poetry Archive

  http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/
  Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.

• LionHeart

  http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/
  Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.

• Our Favorite Poems

  http://www.kyphilom.com/www/poems.html
  Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.

• Poem of the Week

  http://www.potw.org/
  Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.

• Poetic Miscellany

  http://www.angelfire.com/co3/poeticmiscellany/
  Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.

• Poetry

  http://www.raingod.com/angus/Poetry/index.html
  Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.

• Poetry 180

  http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
  A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.

• Poetry Archive

  http://www.poetry-archive.com/
  Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.

• Poetry In Translation

  http://poetryintranslation.com/
  An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.

• Poetry X » Poems

  http://poetry.poetryx.com/
  Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.

• Representative Poetry Online

  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/
  Collection of poetry spanning 1400 years, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Indexed by poet, title and first line. Includes critical articles, bibliographies, and other aids for students. Mostly English, some French.

• Snap Dragon Poetry Corner

  http://www.snap-dragon.com/poetry.html
  A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".

• The Poem Tree

  http://www.poemtree.com/
  Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.

• The Wondering Minstrels

  http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/
  Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.

• World Wide School: Literature-Poetry

  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-poetry.html
  Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.

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