Fitzgerald Library - English -Poetry

The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920 in full text, searchable by keyword or phrase, with boolean and proximity searching also available.

Gale Resources Poet's Corner--free resource on poetry. Biographies, timelines, literary terms defined, explication, and more.

Poemfinder, a proprietary database of over 600,000 indexed poems and 50,000 full text poems, is the largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. Searchable by keyword, author, title or subject.
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Poetry Archive--listen to poets reading their work, "world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work."

Professor Eiichi Hishikawa of Kobe University has created Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, which contains biographical information and full-text poetry for more than one hundred poets of the twentieth-century.
Individual Poets
W. H. Auden is well represented on the WWW by the W. H. Auden Society, which offers a list of books by Auden, links to some of his poems, and a selective list of recordings of his readings and of musical settings of his poems. Recent news of publications and events of interest to Auden's readers, reports of work in progress, and brief scholarly and interpretive notes. Some examples of his poetry in electronic form can be found at the Kobe Auden Site, which is maintained by students at the University of Kobe.
Students of the work of E. E. Cummings can find biographical information and links to other Cummings sites at the Unofficial E. E. Cummings Site, maintained by Douglas M. Twip. Cummings' poetry is well-represented on the WWW, especially at the E. E. Cummings Page, maintained by the Academy of American Poets.
A fine site for the poet Emily Dickinson can be found at John Ravert's Emily Dickinson Site; contents include biographical information, essays on the poetry of Dickinson, and links to other sites. More than 160 of Dickinson's poems are available from the Bartleby Library at Columbia University.
Several good sites for information on the poet T. S. Eliot include T. S. Eliot, which contains biographical information and much of his poetry and What the Thunder Said for links to resources.
Biographical information on Robert Frost and his family can be found at A Frost Bouquet, an electronic rendition of a 1996 exhibit at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library at the University of Virginia. Frost's poetry prior to 1920 is available at Project Bartleby.
One of the best resources for information on Gerard Manley Hopkins is David Jerome Callon's site The Gerard Manley Hopkins Resource Page at Creighton University, which contains electronic texts, biographical information, criticism, book reviews, links to the Hopkins Quarterly and other journals and links to other WWW resources.
A. E. Houseman is represented on the WWW by a fine electronic edition of "A Stropshire Lad" from Project Bartleby at Columbia University.
The poetry of Dame Edith Sitwell can be found at Poets Corner.
Wallace Stevens is represented on the WWW by the Friends (and Enemies) of Wallace Stevens Page, which includes biographical materials and many of his poems (some read by Stevens in audio format).