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American Verse Project - (dead link)
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
"The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920."

Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages

Bartleby.com
A wonderful collection of Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction works online.

British Poetry 1780-1910
A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia

Canadian Poetry Archive
"The Canadian Poetry Archive features selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets. Digitized from public domain anthologies found in the National Library of Canada's rich literature collection, the poems represent some of Canada's most notable poetry from the 19th and early 20th centuries."
National Library of Canada

Classical Studies Greek Drama and Poetry Database Project
Reception of the Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry
"The database aims to enable Reception studies to address issues of performance with the same degree of rigour and attention to evidence which is expected in textual studies and has been designed so that it can be searched for the careers of individuals and theatre companies as well as for Greek and modern authors, plays, themes and reviews...We hope that the database will prove a useful research and learning resource for academics and students working not only in Classical Studies but also in related areas such as modern literature and theatre studies. It will include material relating to poetry and film as well as drama."
Dept. of Classics, Open University

The Carnegie Mellon University Poetry Index of Canonical Verse
An archive online texts and resources.

Contemporary Afghan Farsi Poetry
"Here you will find some Farsi/Dari poems by contemporary Afghan poets. Some of these contemporary poems are not easily accessible in print. Thus, the motivation behind creating this collection is to make a sample of these works available to the interested readers, especially, the Afghan community on the internet."

Currents in Electronic Literacy
"...is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education."

• Special Topic - E-Poetry: New Poetics (?) - (dead link)
  Fall 2001, Issue 5.

Electronic Literature Directory
"It provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements...The Directory provides easy access to one of the most exciting and fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration."
From the Electronic Literature Organization - (dead link)

A Garment Worker's Legacy : The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry
An Online Catalogue & Exhibit
"...is considered to be one of the finest private collections of its kind in the world. ."The first section of this web site, the Catalogue, enables the user to search and access the catalogue entries by electronic means. It also includes the scholarly apparatus found in the published catalogue, such as its Introduction, Indices and Table of Name Equivalents. The second section, the virtual Exhibit, consists of the actual exhibit, augmented in content, and strengthened with hyperlinks and enlargement capacities. Photographs and audio-visual material of the 1998 exhibition have been included."
- McGill University [Canada] Digital Collection Program

Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
"This is an ongoing project. Its primary purpose is to provide good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers. I hope that it may also serve to provide an online forum for the discussion of these works as well as a resource for anyone interested in delving further into the material...At this point I have 107 sonnets with translations posted. I have also included some links to other web sites."
By Alix Ingber, Prof. of Spanish, Sweet Briar College

Greek Poetry (in Greek)
Online versions of POETRY Greece and Hellenic Quarterly

Greek Poetry (translated)
Online versions of POETRY Greece and Hellenic Quarterly

Internet Poetry Archive
"The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive will make available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts...Using the newest capabilities of the Internet to present sound and graphics as well as text, the archive entry for each poet comprises audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photograph of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the poem (e.g., a map or illustration of a particular place mentioned in the poem), texts of the poems, a critical biography of the poet prepared by a scholar familiar with the poet's work, and a short bibliography. Poems are presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation."

Iraq Culture Nights - Poetry
"Iraq Culture Nights go beyond politics to honor Iraq's rich cultural traditions and history. Culture Nights express the need to see an Iraq beyond bad news and headlines. To listen to the Iraqi people, to embrace Iraq's rich culture and history, and to have hope to work for a better future - free from tyranny, war and occupation."
- Education for Peace in Iraq Center

Irish Poetry 1780-1910
A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia

Kelly Writers House
Includes live and archived webcasts of contemporary poets.
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

Leeds Database of Manuscript English Verse
"BCMSV, in progress, contains detailed information about the individual items of English verse contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts in Leeds University Library's Brotherton Collection."

Lithuanian Poetry
Translated into English

mark(s)
This arts magazine includes Poetry/Fiction ; Essays ; Visual Arts

Modern American Poetry
A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), edited by Cary Nelson

National Library of Wales

• Maldwyn (The Index to Welsh Poetry in Manuscript)
  "The Maldwyn database is an index to Welsh poetry found in manuscript sources and dated before 1830. Among the search options available are first line, last line, poet, metre, type and subject."

Poems that Go
Poems and essays on new media poetry

Poets' Corner - (dead link)
"Our goal is to create the largest, most diverse, and most user-friendly public library of poetic works ever assembled. The materials on display are selected from an inventory of thousands of works by hundreds of authors, transcribed and gathered here by the Editors and by many volunteer contributors from around the world."

Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry
From Representative Poetry On-Line

Representative Poetry
"A historical anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, which includes about 730 poems by roughly 80 authors."
Edited by members of the Department of English, University of Toronto

Tudor Poems : An On-line Anthology
"The purpose of this site is to make available modern-spelling editions of Tudor poems that are not usually anthologized. The poems were written between 1485 and 1603, most of them in the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Each poem page includes a modernized text, a brief introduction, and footnotes."
By Dr. James D. Clark, Associate Professor of English, Miami University, Ohio

Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
The tutorials are based on primary documents and original poems relating the experience of World War I.
Major sections include: The Seminars ; The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive ; Publications of the War [Includes a complete run of The Hydra]; First World War Poetry Discussion Board.
By Paul Groves and Stuar Lee, JTAP Virtual Seminars Project, Oxford University.

The Web Concordances and Workbooks
Includes selected poems of Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, Hopkins.
"The Concordance Workbooks are literary study guides to the poems and the Concordances, by Catherine Logan, covering Blake, Keats, Coleridge."
Designed and implemented by Rob Watt, Department of English, University of Dundee

World Poetry Directory
"This website brings you lists of festivals, prizes, journals, and associations of the world of poetry. It also provides links with major web sites, presenting poetry activities in UNESCO Member States, Association Members and Non-member States."
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)