Poet's Corner - (Steve Spanoudis, et. al.) - One of the biggest and certainly the best; including both popular classics ("Hiawatha", "Invictus") and the standard, accepted-as-great ("Ode to a Grecian Urn", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"); 5,574 poems by 648 poets (as of December 1999). Subject categorization of the poems; good search capability.

Bartleby Verse - (Bless them for honoring a lowly scrivener!): The complete texts of 16 pre-1920 anthologies and 42 famous, pre-1920 volumes of poetry by individual authors; several thousand poems in total. Plus Bartleby Library - Hundreds of complete, pre-1920 books in the categories of Reference, Fiction, and Nonfiction.

Leon Malinofsky's Page - An interesting and valuable site with 40 carefully selected poems along with music, images, True Speech, and certain of the author's own writings.

Shalizi's Poetry Collection - About 200 good poems by 40 pre-1950 poets

The University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-Line - More than 1,000 pre-1900 poems; chronologically organized (with author, title, keyword searching, too)

The (Emule) Poetry Archives - 3714 classical poems by 141 poets; keyword searching (Added, 22 DEC 00)

Chadwyck-Healey's LionHeart - 1,000 love poems, from 1500-1900; mostly British. Nicely organized; good tools for searching the poems.

Richard's Poetry Library - Good selections from 18th and 19th century English poets; about 400 poems by 25 poets.

Luminarium - Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th century poetry

Project Gutenberg - Texts of more than 1,000 English-language books --mostly literature, mostly pre-1920. More than 200 books with the keyword "poems" in the title.

Carnegie-Mellon University's Poetry Index - Mostly pre-1950; many longer poems/books of poems; keyword searching of texts.

University of Michigan's American Verse Project - 150 American poetry books published before 1920, in their entirety.

MIT's Internet Classics Archive - A searchable collection of over 400 classical Greek and Latin texts (in English translation)

Poems from the Planet Earth - Database of more than 6,000 poems contributed by users. No editorial control but sometimes useful if you're looking for a specific poem.

The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits - This site and Hishikawa's (see Guides, below) are the places to go on the Web for 20th-century American poets. This site has biographical information, poems, and links for each one. (Note: There are some English and some pre-20th-century poets included here as well.)

Cosmoetica's Neglected Poets - About 200 poems by neglected 20th century poets; many good poems not found elsewhere.

Poetry Daily - A sampler of contemporary print-published poetry; largely from books under copyright which aren't available elsewhere. (365 poems, the past year's-worth.)

Ludlow Press Poetry - About 100 contemporary poems. (Also, art and short fiction.)

Pete's Best-Loved Poems 600 "real" poems; sentimental, rhymed: "Casey At the Bat", "Annie and Willie's Prayer", "Heaven's Grocery Store".



More Noteworthy Web-Published Poetry Collections:

Poetry Super Highway

Random Poetry

Bachagalou's Poetry Cafe

The Unknown Poet

Mutual linksto various other poetry collections

Tolstoy siteMaybe not poetry... but great, great prose. The texts of almost all his works.

Great Books: An Index to Online Great Books(Mostly) not poetry ... but lots of great prose.

Virtual Street BandPoems of W.H.Auden, and other text, set to music -- with interesting animation.



Other Poetry Guides

Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource - One of the biggest and best; all periods, 600 links, most with comments by Patrick.

poetry.about.com - 1000+ sites (with comments) organized into 30 categories, including:

Online Lit Zines and Anthologies - The definitive guide to modern, "imagist" poetry on the Web.

Twentieth-Century Poetry in English - (Professor Eiichi Hishikawa, Kobe University, Japan) 159 sites, representing the best-known published poets of the 20th century

Webcrawler Poetry - 1000+ sites, all periods, with comments

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student - Almost 3,000 links (perhaps 30% poetry); organized by author within century, with "Internet Resources" and "Print Resources" for each century.

The Poetry Pond - Poetry Links and Reviews, 40 contemporary sites, with ratings

Yahoo's Web-Published Poets400 sites - with descriptions supplied by the poets

300 more

The Open Directory Project - Arts/Literature/Poetry - Same idea as Yahoo, except better, more descriptive.

Jacket magazine's Literary Links and Electronic Magazines - 60 sites, mostly contemporary; with descriptions by John Tranter.

Poet's Park POWWOW - 50 contemporary links

Spondee160 links - All periods

120 more

A Literary Index - Scholarly resources (Chris Flack - Vanderbilt University). Annotated links to academic websites.

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry - Reading for the English 88 class at the University of Pennsylvania. Several hundred links.

Poets and Writers - Resources for poets and writers: contests, publishing advice, links, news, trivia, directory of writers, "Out Loud Audio".



Essays about Poetry

Dana Gioia's "Can Poetry Matter" - (from the May 1991 issue of The Atlantic Monthly)

Interview with Dana Gioia: "Paradigms Lost" - (from the Spring 1995 issue of ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum

RJ McCaffery's "Contemporary American Poetry and the Web"

Introduction - to the Notes to his collection of poems, Ex Nihilo

My discussion of Robert Graves' "The White Goddess"

The Contemporary Poetry Review

John Tranter's Jacket Magazine - Twenty issues; mostly contemporary poetry.