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Poetry Links

Marc Chagall, The Poet (1911) Philadelphia Museum of Art

Introduction to Poetry Texts

X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, An Introduction to Poetry: http://www.ablongman.com/kennedypoetry11e
J. Paul Hunter, et al. The Norton Introduction to Poetry: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/
Michael Meyer, Poetry: An Introduction: http://bedfordstmartins.com/meyerpoetry/ (Includes a "Virtual Lit Poetry Tutroial"): http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Virtualit/poetry/index.html

Handbook of Terms

A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche)
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html

Gale's Glossary of Literary Terms: http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/glossary/

Electronic Texts:

Project Gutenberg

University of Virginia Digital Text Collections [some access limited]

University of Toronto English Library

Representative Poetry Online

The Bartleby Project

Renascence Editions (An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799)

Dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/

Poetry Sites:

"Voices and Visions Spotlight"--links to sites on 13 modern American poets: http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/

"Fooling with Words" with Bill Moyers (Dodge Poetry Festival--PBS): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/

Modern and Contemporary Poetry (Al Filreis, English 88, U Penn)

Al Filreis: Chapter 2--Modernism and Imagism

Al Filreis: Chapter 3--The Reaction against Modernism: the Thirties

Al Filreis: Chapter 4--The Reaction against Modernism: Harlem Renaissance

The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/

Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford UP) (MAPS: Cary Nelson) More than a companion site to an anthology, MAPS features sites for 161 American poets, with biographies, critical commentary, photos, and links for each poet.

Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo--concentrates on contemporary and experimental poets)

The UbuWeb: visual / concrete / sound poetry: http://www.ubu.com/

New Pages Guide to Literary Periodicals: http://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/litmags.htm

A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche): http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html

The Sublime:

from Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Inquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful
"The Sublime" (from the Victorian Web)

William Blake links: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/BlakeLinks.html

British Romantic Nature Poets

David Damrosch's Romanticism introduction

Norton Topics Online's Romanticism page

"Romantic Related Sites": http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/sites.html

Romantic Circles: http://www.rc.umd.edu/

Voice of the Shuttle, Romantics Page http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html

Romanticism on the Net (an on-line journal): http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/

Quotes on "The nature of Nature" (David Miall)

Wordsworth:

The Wordsworth Trust: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/

Lyrical Ballads (1798 Text): http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ballads.html (Univ. of Oregon)

William Wordsworth http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/ww/wwov.html (Victorian Web)

Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and the Romantic Landscape: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/romantic/topic_1/welcome.htm

Tintern Abbey and the Picturesque:

http://vi.uh.edu/pages/tintern/tint1txt.html

http://www.tintern41.freeserve.co.uk/abbey2.htm

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/tinturn.htm

David Miall's paper on relocating the site of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey": http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/tinternl.htm

The Picturesque:

Excerpts from William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye . . . (1782)

David Miall's sources on "The Picturesque."

from the second edition of Gilpin's Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty (1794)

"Reverend William Gilpin" (a short introduction)

"The Illustrating Traveller" (an exhibition on the Sublime and the Picturesque in America--Yale U)

Coleridge:

The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

with on-line annotated texts of Coleridge's poems

and a critical essay on Coleridge's conversation poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/stcov.html (Victorian Web)

Keats:

The "Real" Grecian Urn?: http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/vase.htm

British Library John Keats Exhibit: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/keats.html

A good Keats page (CUNY): http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/keats.html

John Keats: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/keatsov.html (Victorian Web)

John Clare:

The John Clare page at Nottingham Trent University
John Clare and 'The Tragedy of the Enclosures' ("The Land Is Ours" Historical Archive site, UK)
"Pastoral and popular modes in Clare's 'enclosure elegies'" (John Goodridge)
"Pastoral and popular modes in Clare's 'enclosure elegies'" (Part Two--discusses "To a Fallen Elm" and "Helpstone Green")

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Whitman Song of Myself Study text: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/whitman/songofmyselfweb.html

Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

Criticism at the Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/index.html

One Life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/whitman/index.html

Revising Himself (LOC): http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman-home.html

Whitman’s Notebooks (LOC): http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/index.html

*Gutenberg text of Leaves of Grass: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/lvgrs10.txt

PAL Walt Whitman page: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/whitman.html

Walt Whitman Links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/whitman.htm

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Emily Dickinson International Society: http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/index.html

Dickinson’s herbarium: http://www.emilydickinson.org/edis/graphics/plate20.jpg

The Emily Dickinson Journal: (Project Muse: to access off-campus, go to the GVSU library catalog).

Dickinson Electronic Archive: http://www.emilydickinson.org/

Emily Dickinson Links: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm

PAL Emily dickinson page: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/dickinson.html

Emily Dickinson Museum: http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

A New Photo of Emily Dickinson? http://www.unc.edu/~gura/dickinson/index.html

How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: An Adventure on eBay (Philip F. Gura): http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/gura/

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

Life and Works of Yeats (National Library of Ireland)

Yeats Meets the Digital Age (New York Times)

Easter 1916 Postcards (Island Ireland)

Modern American Poets

Al Filreis: Chapter 2--Modernism and Imagism

Al Filreis: Chapter 3--The Reaction against Modernism: the Thirties
Al Filreis: Chapter 4--The Reaction against Modernism: Harlem Renaissance

The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/

Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo--concentrates on contemporary and experimental poets)

The UbuWeb: visual / concrete / sound poetry: http://www.ubu.com/

"Voices and Visions Spotlight"--links to sites on 13 modern American poets: http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/

The 1913 Armory Show (UVA)

Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

Amy Lowell:

Amy Lowell at Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)
Amy Lowell (MAPS)
Lowell's contributions to Some Imagist Poets (1915)

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (MAPS)
Carl Sandburg at Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)

Robert Frost

Amy Lowell’s review of Robert Frost’s first two volumes of poetry (The New Republic, 1915)
Robert Frost page (MAPS)
Robert Frost reading his poems (Internet Multicasting Service)
Robert Frost at Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)

William Carlos Williams:

Florence Williams's "reply" to "This Is Just to Say": http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/flossie.html
WCW at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/williams.htm

On "The Red Wheel Barrow": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/wheelbarrow.htm
On "This Is Just to Say": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/just.htm

WCW at the Academy of American poets site: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=120
Al Filreis' WCW links: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html#w
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Another version of the same: and another (UNC)

Ezra Pound:

Ezra Pound At MAPS [Includes "A Retrospect" (Pound's imagist theories)]
Pound's Collected Poetry Recordings (Penn Sound)
KYBERNEKYIA: A Hypervortext of Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI :
SUNY Buffalo Pound page
Academy of American Poets Pound page

T. S. Eliot:

What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site: http://www.whatthethundersaid.org/

T. S. Eliot at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm

Marjorie Perloff on the "Avant-Garde Eliot" (PDF file)

Texts of Eliot poems, with a brief biography (Representative Poetry Online, Ian Lancashire, U of Toronto)

"Preludes": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/786.html

"Rhapsody on a Windy Night": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/787.html

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/781.html

“The Prufrock Papers” (hypertext Prufrock): http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/

The Waste Land: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/790.html

TSE reads The Waste Land (Harper Audio, via IMS)

Prof. Stephen Railton's T. S. Eliot page

Exploring The Waste Land (R A. Parker)

The T. S. Eliot Society (USA)

An Interactive Waste Land Site (too many pop up ads but an interesting hypertext approach)

Imagism

Webster's Imagism page
Imagists.org (Pages on Richard Aldington and H.D., with links to Pound and Amy Lowell pages)
Modernism and Imagism (Al Filreis, Chapter 2)
Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient
Amy Lowell's Notes "On Imagism"
Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology (1915)

Basho & Haiku:

Text of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North (with notes, illustrations, and four different translations--best viewed with Internet Explorer)
Basho's Life: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html

History of Haiku: Before Basho and Basho

The Japanese Haiku Masters: Links, References, Resources: http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku6.htm

World Haiku Review: http://www.worldhaikureview.org/

Mina Loy:

MAPS page on Mina Loy: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/loy.htm
Mina Loy's Lunar Odyssey: http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/wolkowski/main.html
Becoming Modern (Carolyn Burke)

World War I Poets

An Introduction to WW I Poetry: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/
War Poems and Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm
The Hydra, Journal of the Craigolockart War Hospital: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/
Anthem for Doomed Youth: Writers and Literature of The Great War, 1914-1918
Lost Poets of the Great War: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/
First World War.Com: http://www.firstworldwar.com/ Features:

Prose and Poetry: http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/
Literary Ambulance Drivers in WW I : http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/ambulance.htm
Vintage Audio Page: http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/index.htm

Art of the First World War: http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/index2.html
About World War I (from the MAPS site): http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ww1/ww1.htm

Marianne Moore:

Marianne Moore at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/moore.htm

Interpretations of "Silence": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/silence.htm
Interpretations of "Poetry": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/poetry.htm

Marianne Moore at the Academy of American Poets
Portrait of Marianne Moore and her mother (National Portrait Gallery)

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm

On "anyone lived in a pretty how town": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/howtown.htm
Interpretations of "Buffalo Bill 's": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/buffalo.htm

Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society: http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Index.htm

Langston Hughes:

Langston Hughes at 100 (Beinecke Library, Yale University)
Langston Hughes: A Voice for All People (University of Kansas Library)
Langston Hughes (MAPS)
Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (MAPS)
Salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/audio/poetry/2001/02/15/langston_hughes/
Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction (PAL)

D. H. Lawrence:

D. H. Lawrence: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/rananim/lawrence/ (The Rananim Society)
D. H. L. collections at the University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/dhlawrence/
Bavarian Gentians: http://www2.latech.edu/~dkaczv/Modernism/gentians.html
A Darker Gentian: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adeeh2/2860662482/

Contemporary Poets

"Fooling with Words" with Bill Moyers (PBS poetry show site): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/
Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo): http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
The ubuweb : visual / concrete / sound poetry: http://www.ubu.com/
New Pages Guide to Literary Periodicals: http://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/litmags.htm

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rich/rich.htm
Criticism on "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rich/tigers.htm

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke at the MAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/roethke/roethke.htm

Gary Snyder

MAPS page on Gary Snyder: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htm