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Commercial Databases

  • Poem Finder Search for a poem by author, title, subject or key words.
    Limited to use in Library only.
  • Exploring Poetry Information on over 200 of the most frequently studied poems-
    on their images, themes, & construction.
    Limited to use in Library only, or to Plymouth District Library Card Holders using remote access.
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    Web Resources

  • Albany Poetry Workshop
    An Interactive Forum for Poets and Writers

  • Bartleby's On-Line Poetry Anthologies
    Thousands of poems by hundreds of authors - Irish, British and American

  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
    On-line tenth edition from 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations

  • Digital Library of World Classic Poetry
    Users may search for poets from different parts of the world.

  • Electronic Poetry Center
    From the State University of New York at Buffalo, this site has links to various forms of poetry from all over the world as well as poetry magazines.

  • Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
    Cite created to provide good verse translations of Golden Age Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers.

  • The Internet Poetry Archive

  • Introduction to Representative Poetry On-Line
    Search poetry database by poet, title, first line, or keyword.

  • Magic Island Poetry Database More than 13,000 poems from around the world. Must be viewed with IE 5.0 or higher. Some files must be downloaded due to size.

  • Modern American Poetry Home Page
    A multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry.

  • National Poetry Month, sponsored by The Academy of American Poets
    Literary Links, Poetry Exhibits and Resources.

  • Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
    Information and full-text poems of authors of the Harlem Renaissance

  • Poets & Writers Online
    Resources of creative writers

  • Poet's Corner Over 6,000 poems and more than 650 authors are now included on this web site.

  • The Atlantic On-line - Poetry Pages Select poems from new and recent issues of the magazine are reprinted as well as essays, interviews and poems dating back several years.

  • Things to remember when writing poems
    Links to advice and hints on poetry writing.

  • University of Michigan humanities Text Initiative - American Verse Project
    This is an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.