ENG 320 Poetry Links | Introductory Texts | Handbook of Terms | Poems | Dictionary.com | | Writing Links | Poetry Sites | | Walt Whitman | Emily Dickinson | | Imagism | Basho (& Haiku) | World War I (& Wilfred Owen) | Ezra Pound | Amy Lowell | D. H. Lawrence | | Modern American Poets | Gertrude Stein | Mina Loy | Robert Frost |  Wallace Stevens | T. S. Eliot | William Carlos Williams | Marianne Moore | E. E. Cummings | Langston Hughes | | W. H. Auden's Musée | | Contemporary Poets | Adrienne Rich | | Theodore Roethke | Gary Snyder |

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/ (Iincludes a "Virtual Lit Poetry Tutroial"): http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Virtualit/poetry/index.html
  

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 of Poems:

Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto): http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

Project Bartleby: http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ [some access limited]

Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799:  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

• Glossary of Literary Terms (from W. W. Norton's Lit Web): http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/glossary_a.htm
• Columbia Guide to Online Style: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Poetry Sites:

Al Filreis: Chapter 2--Modernism and Imagism:  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap2.html

Al Filreis: Chapter 3--The Reaction against Modernism: the Thirties: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap3.html

Al Filreis: Chapter 4--The Reaction against Modernism: Harlem Renaissance:  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap4.html

Anthology of Modern American Poetry site (MAPS: Cary Nelson, Oxford UP): http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

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

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

Walt Whitman:

Whitman at the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman-home.html
Leaves of Grass: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman-leavesofgrass.html
Walt Whitman Notebooks at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html

Emily Dickinson:

Emily Dickinson International Society: http://www.case.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html
Dickinson’s herbarium: http://www.case.edu/affil/edis/graphics/plate20.jpg
Emily Dickinson Links: http://www.case.edu/affil/edis/links.html
Dickinson Electronic Archive: http://www.emilydickinson.org/

Imagism

• Webster's Imagism page: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/imagism.htm
• Imagists.org:  http://www.imagists.org/ (Good pages on Richard Aldington and H.D., with links to Pound and Amy Lowell sites)
  
• Some Imagist Poets (1915) http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/sip15_title.htm [Complete text of the book]
  
• Modernism and Imagism—Al Filreis, Chapter 2: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap2.html
  

• 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
• Anthem for Doomed Youth (12 British WW I Poets, an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum, London)
  http://www.iwm.org.uk/lambeth/anthem/index.htm
• The Hydra, Journal of the Craigolockart War Hospital: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/
• 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
  

• The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/
  
• Anthology of Modern American Poetry site (MAPS: Features poems, biographies of poets, and selections from a wide variety of interpretations and criticsim—Cary Nelson, Oxford UP): http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
• Al Filreis' site and course on modern and contemporary poetry: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
• Chapter 2—Modernism and Imagism, : http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap2.html
  
• Chapter 3—The Reaction against Modernism: the Thirties:  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap3.html
• Chapter 4—The Reaction against Modernism: Harlem Renaissance:  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/chap4.html

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

• Gertrude Stein Online: http://www.tenderbuttons.com/
• Accounts of Meeting Gertrude Stein: http://www.tenderbuttons.com/gsonline/timesense/1_2cook.html
• Stein, "A Completed Portrait of Picasso": http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/ifitoldnew.html
• Audio--Stein reading "A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (from the ubuweb): http://www.ubu.com/sound/stein.html
• Photonegatives Search page at the Beinecke Library, Yale University (type in "Gertrude Stein"):  http://highway49.library.yale.edu/photonegatives/
• Tender Buttons at Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/140/
• Stein's first Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Autobiography 34-40): http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/matisse/p-matisse13.htm
• Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein (Autobiography 12, 45-46, 53): http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=21&item=47.106
• Mabel Dodge 1913 essay: http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n119.html
• The World of Gertrude Stein: http://www.ellensplace.net/gstein1.html
• Salon.com article on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: http://wwwsalon.com/mwt/feature/1999/11/18/alice/
• New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein.html

Mina Loy:

Robert Frost

• Robert Frost at theMAPS site: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/frost.htm 
• Audio files of Robert Frost reading his poems: http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/012294_harp_ITH.html
• Amy Lowell's review of Frost's A Boy's Will & North of Boston:
  http://www.powells.com/review/2001_05_17.html (Powell's Books and The New Republic)
  

T. S. Eliot:

• What the Thunder Said: a T. S. Eliot site: http://www.whatthethundersaid.org/
  
• TSE: The Web Site (Home of the T. S. Eliot Discussion List, plus a concordance to the Collected Poems)
  http://www.missouri.edu/~tselist/
• The T. S. Eliot Society: http://www.luc.edu/eliot/contact.htm 
  
• Texts of Eliot poems, with a brief biography, at Representative Poetry Online (Ian Lancashire, U of Toronto): http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/111.html  

• TSE reads The Waste Land: http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html 
  
• Prof. Stephen Railton's T. S. Eliot page: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/tsehp.html
• Exploring The Waste Land: http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html
• An Interactive Waste Land Site (way too many pop up ads but an interesting hypertext approach) http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/

• 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/poet.php/prmPID/119  
• 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 (UNC)

• 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: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID96
• Tiffany Tyler's Marianne Moore site: http://mam.english.sbc.edu/
• Portrait of Marianne Moore and her mother: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/moore.htm

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 at the MAPS site:  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm

Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain": http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/mountain.htm

Brueghel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/bruegel1/p-brue1-10.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  

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