Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Poetry: Electronic Text Archives
See also: This category in other languages: - 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". - Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information. - Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement. - Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets. - An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript. - Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary. - 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. - Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums. - Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name. - Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links. - Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne. - Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American. - Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa. - Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name. - Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors. - Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg. - Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links. - Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links. - Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords. - A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year. - Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated. - An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline. - Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis. - Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources. - A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems". - Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title. - Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links. - Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork. - Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information. - Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll. - Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.
