Full-text classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference books.
Defines hundreds of literary terms.
Aims to bring the widest possible audience to the fullest possible range of English-language poetry being published around the world, and to complement that poetry with educational material of value both to the specialist and to the general reader. Includes recorded readings of poems often by the poet.
Listen to poetry, old and new, read allowed by the authors themselves and others.
Offers poems from contemporary writers and poets. Search poems from the journal Poetry and poems by topic.
Provides information about what's going on in poetry now, with valuable information on current writers.
Created by the Academy of American Poets, this site includes thougsands of poems, hundreds, of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings.
Provides biographical information on poets spanning 1400 years.
Has links to high quality literature and literary criticism and can be used to find information about novelists, poets, essayists, and short story writers in all genres.