Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
"Visitors to the award-winning website of The Academy of American Poets can find essays on poetry, biographies of more than 200 poets, text of nearly 600 poems, and RealAudio of eighty poems read by their authors; learn all about the Academy and its programs; discuss poetry and share their own work with fellow web travelers; find out what poetry events are happening in their towns; and much more." -- "About" page
American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
"The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form . . . with various forms of access provided through the WWW." -- Title page
Bartleby.com Verse Collection
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
"With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web." -- Title page
British Women Romantic Poets Project
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/
"The goal of this project is the design and development of highly accurate and reliable electronic editions of works published by British women poets between 1789 and 1832." -- Introduction
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
http://capa.conncoll.edu/index.html
"CAPA is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. The books are stored as individual text-only files accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet." -- "About" page
Internet Poetry Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
"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. The archive includes the work of living poets from around the world." -- "About" page
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Full texts of poems are available in these sections:
John Milton Reading Room
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/
"From its beginnings in the spring of 1997, The Milton Reading Room has been a project of collaboration between me, Thomas Luxon (Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College), and my students." -- "About" page
Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
"This web site grew out of the experience of editing Anthology of Modern American Poetry for Oxford University Press. . . . The site is designed to help all readers of modern poetry, not just readers of the Oxford anthology." -- "About" page
On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
"The On-Line Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books, for the benefit and edification of all." -- "About" page
Poet's Corner
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
"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." -- Title page
Representative Poetry On-Line
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
"Representative Poetry On-line . . . includes 2,200 English poems by over 340 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the verge of copyright in the twentieth century." -- Title page
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