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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Writing Poetry Like Pros

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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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Other

Repeat After Us

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems by t.s. Eliot

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the completed text of a collection of Poems by T. S. Eliot; it includes 24 poems.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the poetry collection Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay; it includes 23 poems.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems, Series 2 by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Poems, Series 3 by Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Robert Service

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Classic Poetry Aloud Index

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to classic poetry read aloud in podcast format. Search by poet, theme, or top ten poems.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Sisters' Tragedy" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of a collection of poems, interludes, and bagatelle by American author Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest

For Students 9th - 10th
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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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Love Songs by Sara Teasdale

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the poetry collection Love Songs by Sara Teasdale.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: On the Ezra Pound

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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eBook
University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Selected Poetry of Ezra Pound

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Andrew Barton Paterson

For Students 9th - 10th
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,"...