17th century women poets
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/kurse/17c/index.htm
Susanne Webel of the University of Koeln (Cologne) provides this online resource guide for seventeenth-century women's literature. Meant primarily for students of her course, '17th Century Women Poets', this will also be of general interest to students of seventeenth-century literature and gender studies elsewhere. The resource includes links to articles and reviews, biographical information about a selection of seventeenth-century women writers, and selections of the work of poets including Aphra Behn, Katherine Fowler Philips, Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Elizabeth Major and Anne Bradstreet. There is also a useful list of general links to seventeenth-century resources, although a number of these links are broken. The site has not been updated since 1998, so while the site lists valuable secondary source material, it does not include the most recent scholarship.
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A centennial tribute to Langston Hughes
http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/Guides/Hughes/
Langston Hughes, the black novelist, poet and playwright, and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in 1902 and died in 1967. This site, celebrating the centenary of his birth, is a resource of considerable value, although its linear arrangement within the confines of a single web page makes navigation slow. There are two biographical articles, followed by a comprehensive annotated listing of links to a vast range other sites offering biographical, critical or bibliographical information about Hughes. This is followed by a substantial bibliography of Hughes' works, including music and non-print media, biographical sources, and criticism. Some of Hughes' poems are included between the sections.
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A fact, and an imagination : or Canute and Alfred, on the seashore
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww443.html
The full-text of the poem, "A fact, and an imagination : or Canute and Alfred, on the seashore" by William Wordsworth, taken from The Complete Poetical Works, which was published in 1888. The collection appears on the website Bartleby.com, which contains online literature and verse. This poem is an account of the story of the Danish Conqueror King Canute, on the seashore. The King's throne is set at the water's edge and he commands the waves not to come closer. When the waves surround the King's throne, he proves to his subjects that he is not all powerful. The site contains advertising.
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A Frost bouquet
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/frost/
The website 'A Frost Bouquet' hosts images of materials from a 1996 special exhibition of editions and memorabilia of the poet, Robert Frost. The online exhibit is divided into six sections: Robert Frost editions in English; editions in other languages; the Frost family; the 'Bouquet'; Christmas cards; and Barrett and the biographers. The first two sections include manuscript images as well as photographs of published material. The family section contains photographs of Frost, his family and friends, from various stages of his life. The Bouquet itself was a manuscript magazine consisting of poems, stories, and illustrations, created by Frost's children and family friends. Images of each page of the first edition (June 1914) are available on the website. The biographical section contain various materials: the draft of Clifton Waller Barrett's introductory speech for Frost's 1952 appearance at the University of Virginia; manuscripts of biographical accounts of the poet; and photographs of Frost's biographers at work.
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A grave
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/986.html
This is the full-text of "A Grave", a poem by Marianne Moore, an American poet and contemporary of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Moore's brother Warner was a chaplain in the U.S. Navy. The site explains that "the sea was one of Moore's favourite topics, but she was also very much aware of the sea as a grave. The sea, for Moore, was both beautiful and deadly."
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Able muse : a review of poetry, prose and art
http://www.ablemuse.com/
The Able Muse Review, edited by Alexander Pepple, hails from San Jose, California and is a journal of poetry, prose and art published online quarterly. The first issue appeared in the autumn on 1999. It "predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry". Submissions are invited. Each issue presents the work of featured poets, writers, artists, photographers and/or musicians. The site features the current issue but all previous volumes are archived and searchable. Images of artists' work, audio readings by featured poets (Real Player required) and mp3 music recordings are provided.
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Adam collection
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/na.html
This site is an online guide to the Adam Collection; the former library of Miron Grindea (1909-1995), editor of 'The Adam International Review', which is now housed at King's College London. It may be of interest to researchers in modern literature, but also to those pursuing Middle Eastern, European or War Studies, due to the more unusual features of the collection. These include monographs and ephemera on the Middle East and the history of Zionism, as well as a collection of monographs on Romanian art, history and civilisation in French and German. The collection is strong in 20th-century poetry in English and also features literature in other European languages. In addition, users will find poetry from lesser known authors and texts issued in small print runs which may be hard to locate. Many of the books in the collection are signed by the author and were sent to Grindea for review. These include texts signed by T. S. Eliot; Robert Graves; Iris Murdoch; Bertrand Russell; Michael Foot; Raymond Queneau; and Georges Duhamel. The site includes a brief biography of Grindea and a history of 'The Adam International Review', including a select bibliography for further background. A list of the books contained in the collection can be accessed from this site via the King's College online catalogue. There are also links to the site of King's College Archives, where Grindea's papers and the 'Adam' archive are housed, as well as sites relating to similar collections. The site is well presented, informative and user-friendly.
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Aemilia Lanyer
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/lanyer/lanyer.htm
Dedicated to the seventeenth-century English poet Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645), this site offers a wealth of useful information for those wishing to learn more about Lanyer's life and work, including an online version of Lanyer's volume of poetry "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" (Hail God, King of the Jews), which is available as a teaching and research resource. A biography written by the site's editor Kari Boyd McBride, assistant professor in the University of Arizona's women's studies department, provides an overview of Lanyer's life and is available for use as a teaching resource. The site also features an extensive bibliography of works by and about Lanyer organised under seven headings including: editions of "Salve..."; articles and books addressing Lanyer's life and work; and work forthcoming, unpublished or in progress. Perhaps the most useful feature of the site is an online version of Lanyer's "Salve..." which includes the full-text of the title poem as well as the prefatory poems included in version STC 15277.5 which are comprised of addresses to Queen Anne, the Princess Elizabeth, all virtuous ladies in general, Arabella Stuart, Susan Countess of Kent, Mary Sidney, Lucy Countess of Bedford, Margaret Countess of Cumberland, Katherine Countess of Suffolk, Anne Countess of Dorset, and the virtuous reader. Also available is "The Description of Cooke-ham", which follows the title poem and is reputedly the earliest known English country house poem.
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Aesthetic Realism Foundation
http://www.aestheticrealism.org/
The Aesthetic Realism Foundation website is the site of a not-for-profit educational foundation that embraces the philosophical idea of Aesthetic Realism, a philosophy founded by American poet and philosopher Eli Siegel in 1941. The website provides a rich source of information about the philosophy, as well essays and lectures by Siegel and others on: the art of poetry; Aesthetic Realism and education; and art theory, amongst other subjects. The website includes a link to The Right of Aesthetic Realism to be Known (TRO), which is the bi-weekly periodical of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, published since 1973. Recent issues and sample articles of TRO can be accessed online, and subscription details are also provided. Related links are also given.
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African American women writers of the nineteenth century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
The website African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century has been developed by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.The site provides a searchable database of African American women's writing during the period. It is possible to search by genre such as biography and autobiography, fiction or essays, or by author or title of work.The collection includes the first published book of poetry by an African American, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley (1773); the first book of essays by an African American, Essays by Ann Plato (1841); texts by writers such as Mary Prince and Harriet Jacobs that have become more widely-known in recent years, alongside writings by much lesser-known women. To support accurate attribution of the collection, the site also offers MLA-style citations for each of the texts in the collection.In addition to the online texts, the site provides detailed biographies of a number of women whose work figures in the collection. The site provides information on topics such as slavery and missionary work and would be of interest to historians working in a range of fields other than the history of female emancipation, black emancipation or women's writing.
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Aftermath
http://www.aftermathww1.com/index.asp
"Aftermath" is a website which examines the social and cultural aftermath of the First World War, especially in the UK, "when the boys came home" (including: the experience of returned soldiers; the need for remembrance and war memorials; and the literature of the early 1920s). The author is a professional Web designer, and design pervades Aftermath and enhances it - even the distinctive poppy red colour scheme. The site's navigation is powered by DHTML. The majority of the extensive content of the site is database driven. The navigation bars to the left and at the top provide fast access with drop-down menus leading to index pages for the major divisions within the site. From there one can access the range of articles dealing with particular subjects including: News Clips (a very useful reference archive of newspaper articles about the Great War since 1998); the 2 minutes silence at 11 o'clock on Armistice Day now part of remembrance ceremonies; Peace Day (the official end of the war, marked by the signing three weeks earlier of the Versailles Treaty); War Memorials; Bereavement (personal accounts of loss); Pilgrimage (the history of visits to the Western Front); A Land Fit For Heroes (focuses on the grim peacetime reality for too many heroes, including J.B.Priestley's account of a battalion reunion); The Lost Generation (the myth and reality of the 1920s notion that Britain's troubles were due to the losses in the Great War); Disenchantment (extract from book by C.E.Montague, 1922); retrospectives on people and places such as Douglas Haig; Aftermath USA (the post-war experience in America); Short Stories (written in the 1920s by authors such as Katherine Mansfield, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs Belloc Lowndes, and Arthur Machen; Great War Poetry; Modern Poetry; H.V.Morton's London, from the 1920s; Music Hall (the post-war decline); Crime. There is also a guestbook and other interactive message boards.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry
http://home.att.net/~TennysonPoetry/
This site, which is maintained by an enthusiast, contains the text of a number of poems written by Alfred Lord Tennyson and also includes a timeline of Tennyson's life, a chronological index of his works and links to related sites. There are a number of poems related to the sea, which include: Break, Break, Break, The Captain, The Fleet, The Kraken, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, The Sailor Boy and The Sea Fairies.
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AllenGinsberg.org
http://www.allenginsberg.org/
This site chronicles the life and work of the American poet and political activist Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). It is run by The Allen Ginsberg Trust, which was established by the poet before his death to manage his literary estate. There is an appreciation of Ginsberg by Michael Schumacher and a detailed chronology of Ginsberg's life. The main section is 'The Library', which contains a good deal of original material: images of texts and manuscripts (requiring Adobe Acrobat); photographs, art, and ephemera; and audio and video recordings. There are further sections listing available books, and audio and video recordings. 'Beatlinks' is a listing of websites relating to Ginsberg and his associates.
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Alliance of literary societies
http://www.allianceofliterarysocieties.org.uk/
The Alliance of Literary Societies (ALS) is an active umbrella organisation that encompasses the hundreds of small non-profit literary societies active in the British Isles. These societies are usually historical in nature, and are devoted to the works of a particular writer or a small group of writers. The ALS website maintains a comprehensive and detailed A-Z listing of all member societies, which at June 2007 stood at over 100 members. The ALS website also lists forthcoming conferences, talks and courses held by ALS member societies. There is a noticeboard of requests and queries from members.
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American Chesterton Society, The
http://chesterton.org/
The website of the American Chesterton Society is dedicated to the promotion and revivification of the thought of G.K. Chesterton. The site hosts a wealth of information on Chesterton and will be of considerable use to all those interested in the life and works of this prolific and popular: philosopher; novelist; poet; theologian; and social critic. Among the resources provided are: a bibliography of Chesterton's works; a brief biography; memorable quotes; and the full-texts of many essays and poems by Chesterton. These last are arranged under headings including: 'The Essayist'; 'The Poet'; 'The Artist'; 'The Murderer'; 'The Distributist'; 'The Historian'; 'The Critic'; 'The Philosopher'; and 'The Theologian'. The site also provides helpful synopses of Chesterton's views on: consumerism; the family; puritanism; pacifism; and crime and punishment among other topics. Sample articles from the Society's 'Gilbert Magazine' are also available via the site. The site is extremely well presented and accessible.
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American poems
http://www.americanpoems.com/
The website of American Poems contains biographies and electronic texts of poems by 29 poets including Maya Angelou, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. Each poet has a separate section devoted to him or her, containing a thorough biography as well as links to poems and often extra information charting the poet's critical reception. The website also contains discussion forums where interested parties can converse on particular poets and where students can request help with research. Although not frequently updated, the information on this website is likely to be of use to English students (at the secondary school and undergraduate levels) and poetry enthusiasts looking for general background information on some well known poets.
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American verse project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
The American Verse Project is a searchable online database of hundreds of collected works of poetry published before 1920. It is a collaboration between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. Works have been selected for inclusion from prior printed anthologies of verse, with additions to ensure adequate representation of people of colour and female poets. The poems have been scanned using OCR packages and encoded in SGML following the TEI guidelines. The transcribed volumes retain some of the layout of the originals, such as page and line breaks and section headings. One can choose to view works with or without line numbering. Images, introductory essays and footnotes are included in the online collection. Single and multiple works can be browsed and searched. One can look for keywords and phrases, use Boolean expressions to search for keywords in a single line, paragraph, poem or collection, and carry out proximity searches (for words occurring within forty, eighty or 120 characters of each other). Results give the keyword-in-context and links to the complete text (though one must use the browser's search facility to locate the term as it is not highlighted when one moves to the full-text). The texts can also be saved in SGML format for further analysis in other software.
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Amiri Baraka
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/baraka/baraka.htm
This resource is the Modern American Poets website about Amiri Baraka (1936-). Baraka (also known as LeRoi Jones) is considered to be one of America's most important black poets. Born in New Jersey, Baraka was initially inspired by poets such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Settling in Greenwich Village during the late fifties, he became involved with the Beat scene before entering his 'Black Nationalist' period following the death of Malcolm X. In 1974, Baraka rejected black nationalism as racist and, in another radical shift, became a Third World Socialist. The Modern American Poetry website about Baraka consists mostly of extracts from secondary essays discussing his poems and attitudes. There are pages on 'SOS', 'Black Art', 'Black Dada Nihilismus', and 'In the Tradition'. There are also extracts from interviews with the author, a selected bibliography of primary works, and a handful of his poems reproduced on the site. The poems featured here include 'Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note', 'In Memory of Radio', 'Notes for a Speech', and 'Ka'Ba'. Other sections provide images of Bakara's book covers, and the usual list of links to external sites.
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amiribaraka.com
http://www.amiribaraka.com/
This web resource is the home page of the American black militant writer and artist Amiri Baraka. Born LeRoi Jones in 1934, he adopted the name Imamu Amiri Baraka in 1965 as a sign of his commitment to Afro-Americanism. This site offers limited resouces, but does provide access to various aspects of Baraka's life and work, including a selection of recent photographs, a long statement concerning the controversy relating to his poem 'Somebody blew up America' written in 2002 while he was New Jersey's Poet Laureate, and a video excerpt from the 2002 Dodge Festival. There are details of his publications available on the web, a substantial list of publications for sale directly from the author (including much print-on-demand and unpublished work) and samples of his original drawings. There is a page of links listing web resources relating to Baraka, including sound files, videos and teaching aids. The content does not seem to have been updated since 2002.
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An American time capsule : three centuries of broadside and other printed ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/
The American time capsule website has been developed by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress to provide access to texts in its printed ephemera collection. The documents included on the site have been digitally scanned to create facsimile images, which can be viewed in different sizes and formats. The site currently provides access to over 10,000 digital images, and all of the online documents will, on completion of the project, be accompanied by transcriptions. Much of the collection is made up of information from broadsides, although leaflets and pamphlets also feature, and the material is notable for its great variety. The type of material available from the site includes posters, notices, advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos and business cards. It is possible to search or browse the collections, and it is also possible to browse by author, title, genre or geographic location of printing. A final release is planned, and this will include many of the oversize items in the collection.
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An electronic edition of the general prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury tales
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/indexn.htm
This excellent online resource consists primarily of a full-text edition of the 'General Prologue' to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The smartly-presented text has been designed so that glosses 'pop up' when the reader runs the mouse over the word or phrase in question. An additional column contains summaries of interpretations and textual notes, with references to online essays by medievalists such as Professors Lee Patterson, C. David Benson, and Jane Zatta, as well as to other primary resources where necessary, such as the Rule of St. Augustine. A translation is provided, with facing Middle English text, and a drop-down selection box allows the reader to move easily to the part of the text describing their pilgrim of choice. Middle English audio recordings by Thomas Hanks, Jane Zatta, Alan Baragona, Tom Farrell, Alfred David, and Edwin Duncan are provided throughout the Middle English version of the text, and on a separate page for ease of access.Duncan provides links to images of some important manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere, Cambridge MS Gg. 4. 27, and Oxford Corpus Christi MS 198) as well as to portraits of Chaucer himself. Background reading and further links are suggested in the 'Background' section, and help with Middle English and its pronunciation under 'Language'.This is a fine and useful resource intended primarily for the new undergraduate, or one unfamiliar with the Middle English language.
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An introduction to Charles Bukowski
http://www.jaydougherty.com/bukowski
This web page contains an essay about the American poet Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Bukowski is sometimes numbered amongst the Beat poets although he was never actually associated with the main group. Something of a drifter, and fond of the bottle, Bukowski's talents were slow to receive recognition in America. The essay examines why this was so, as well as looks at the qualities of the writing that eventually led to such recognition. Beginning with Bukowski's childhood, the essay relates his life and achievements, and acts as a good introduction to the figure of the poet and his writing, although there are no examples of his poetry. This resource is part of the website maintained by the essayist Jay Doherty.
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An unofficial E. E. Cummings starting point
http://members.tripod.com/~DWipf/cummings.html
This is a short Web page intended to act as a starting point for those interested in the American poet E. E. Cummings. It includes links to other sites, a chronology of the poet's life, a small bibliography, and a note on the capitalization of Cummings's name. Presentation is not a strength of this site, the content is also a little thin, but the page serves its declared purpose well enough.
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld web site
http://www.usask.ca/english/barbauld/
The Anna Laetitia Barbauld website offers electronic hypertext editions of the poetry and prose of the eighteenth-century and Romantic era British woman writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825). The project is intended to explore the ways in which hypertext might extend editorial opportunities beyond those available to printed editions, as well as to enable free access to this increasingly studied author. The site hosts an annotated edition of Barbauld's 1773 edition of poetry, and a facsimile edition of her 1825 two-volume "Works", with a memoir by Lucy Aikin. Several of the texts feature hypertext glosses, whilst some of the poems are accompanied by more detailed critical notes that offer contextual readings. The poem, "Washing Day", for instance, is accompanied by a critical essay, a contemporary account of washing day from James Woodforde's "Diary of a Country Parson", a 1739 account of washing day from Mary Collier's "The Woman's Labour", an engraving by Thomas Rowlandson, and other complementary materials. The site also includes: some of Barbauld's prose texts; nineteenth-century biographical accounts; a chronology of her life; a 1776 article on 'female literature' from the Westminster Journal; and some secondary critical essays. Links are provided to related resources. This well-designed and informative website should definitely appeal to students and researchers interested in Barbauld.
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Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barbauld/biography.html
This web page hosts a number of primary texts by Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld, the eighteenth-century and Romantic-era poet. Barbauld wrote personal, religious, and political verses, as well as essays, and hymns for children. Her best known works include 'Corsica' and 'Washing-day'. She is regarded as an important figure in women's literature, having written poems on the condition of women in literature and society, such as 'Verses on Mrs. Rowe', and 'The rights of Women'. This site offers a biographical summary of Barbauld's life, and offers online texts of many of her publications, including her 1773 volume of poems and her 'Hymns in Prose for Children'. There are also links to poems available on other websites, but unfortunately these were not being maintained when checked, and some were broken. The page concludes with a bibliography of primary texts. The site is part of the Celebration of Women Writers collection.
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