National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros
By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...
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Repeat After Us
This site is a collection of copyright-free literature ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy to literature from many time periods and cultures. There are more than 6,000 texts, and over 1,100 of them are accompanied by audio...
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Classic Reader: Poems by t.s. Eliot
This is the completed text of a collection of Poems by T. S. Eliot; it includes 24 poems.
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Classic Reader: Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (26 poems), Love (28), Nature (31), and Time and Eternity (40).
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Classic Reader: The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson
This is the complete text of the poetry collection The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It contains 26 poems.
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Classic Reader: Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay; it includes 23 poems.
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Classic Reader: Poems, Series 2 by Emily Dickinson
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 2 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (47 poems), Love (16), Nature (41), and Time and Eternity (42).
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Classic Reader: Poems, Series 3 by Emily Dickinson
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 3 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (45) poems), Love (22), Nature (29), and Time and Eternity (49).
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Classic Reader: Authors: William Blake
This site features the author William Blake including a biography and the full text of Songs of Innocence and Experience, a poetry collection divided into two sections: poems about innocence and poems about experience.
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Classic Reader: Author: Robert Service
This site features the author Robert Service including the full text of the poetry collection The Spell of the Yukon, which contains 24 poems.
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Classic Poetry Aloud Index
Listen to classic poetry read aloud in podcast format. Search by poet, theme, or top ten poems.
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Classic Reader: "The Sisters' Tragedy" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
This is the full text of a collection of poems, interludes, and bagatelle by American author Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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Classic Reader: Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest
This is the full text of the poetry collection Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest. He became known as the People's Poet because his poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
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Classic Reader: Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
This is the full text of the poetry collection Love Songs by Sara Teasdale.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: On the Ezra Pound
Maintained by the "McLuhan Studies Journal," this article by Edward Barton from the University of Toronto focuses on Pound's influence on Marshall McLuhan during their years of correspondence. This site is more useful for McLuhan studies...
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Selected Poetry of Ezra Pound
This resource provides the text of several of Pound's poems, including "Alba," "In a Station of the Metro," and "Canto I."
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Classic Reader: Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
This site focuses on the author Andrew Barton Paterson by providing links to the full text of the poetry collection, The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses and 18 short stories such as "The Amateur Gardener," "The Cat," "The Dog,"...