Poetry

Homer's epics, other classical poetry, and even cowboy and western poetry, all available online.

Resources in this category:

The Aeneid of Vergil
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/virgil.html

The John Dryden (Harvard Classics) translation of the great Latin epic; markup by the Institute for Learning Technologies.

ArmenianHouse.org
http://armenianhouse.org/

A dynamic collection of documents relating to Armenian literature, history, religion, etc. Has documents in Armenian, English, and Russian.

Fiction & Poetry - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/index/fiction

Contains contemporary and classic poetry and fiction, as well as audio and video files of poets reading their work, and interviews from the print version of the magazine.

Books - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/index/books

Contains contemporary and classic poetry and fiction, as well as audio and video files of poets reading their work, and interviews from the print version of the magazine.

Cowboy and Western Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/

This hub of Cowboy Poetry corrals together some old and classical cowboy poetry as well as some new poems, and much more. You’ll find newsletters, events, competitions, articles, book reviews, links, and articles.

Famous Poets and Poems
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/

Browse among 550 popular poets and 22,000 poems. Find portraits, short biographies, quotes, bibliographies and links to other resources dedicated to a particular poet. Poets are organized by name, birth date, nationality, and other factors.

Homer and the Papyri Relational Database
http://www.stoa.org/homer/homer.pl

Early transcripts of Homer show many variations. This searchable database of papyri containing portions of Homeric text is both a modernized catalogue of these papyri and related materials and an all-embracing collection of the variant readings they present, with a few exceptions.

Lesbian Aeolic
http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/lesbian.html

Brief overview of Greek Dialects, specifically Aeolic usued by the lesbian poets Sappho and Alcaeus. Describes Ancient Greek grammar and compensatory lengthening of the Aeolic dialect.

Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/

Aims to provide "a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time." Includes biographical information, bibliographies, criticism, commentary, and links to online copies of works on major modern American poets.

Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

"The second version of Representative Poetry On-line includes over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century." Poems are indexed and can be browsed by poet name, date, title, or first line. They can also be searched by keyword. Also contains works on poetry criticism.

Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/

Sonnet Central is "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors." The site mainly concentrates on sonnets from Great Britain but other areas are represented as well.