Topic: Poetry

Suggested Databases

DISCUS – www.scdiscus.org Username: see Ms. Pope Password: see Ms. Pope

Granger’s Poetry Database (see Ms. Pope for PIN)

Suggested Web Resources:

Bartleby.com: Verse
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
This section of the Bartleby.com site includes the online text of several public-domain poetry anthologies and collections, including The Oxford Book of English Verse, Modern American Poetry , Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. , and many others. There is a search engine for searching all of Bartleby.com's texts, and you can also narrow it down to just the Verse section.

Craft of Poetry

http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/index.html

A glossary and description of poetic types and elements are clearly written at this site from the University of Northern Iowa.

An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
This is the author index to a site run out of the University of Toronto; it can also be searched by title, date, and keyword. The emphasis is on British poetry, but it is quite comprehensive within that framework; in addition, each poet on this site has at least two or three poems listed.

Poetry.com

http://www.poetry.com/

Site features over 5.1 million poets.

Poets.org

http://www.poets.org

Links to poetry and information about poets.

RhymeZone

http://www.rhymezone.com/

A search engine for rhyming words. Definitions, synonyms, and homophones are also given.

Shadow Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/

This site defines and gives you examples of several different types of poetry.

World Poetry Directory

http://www.unesco.org/poetry/bienvenue.php?initia=english

This website from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has worldwide lists of poetry festivals, prizes, journals, and associations.

Suggested web resources provided by The Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48518) and Middle School Pathfinders: Guiding Student Research by Nancy J. Keane.