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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Charles Baudelaire: Poet of Sickness & Evil

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is designed to accompany Baudelaire's "The Poet of Sickness and Evil," which provides suggestions for studying the 19th century French poet's work.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
This Poets.org entry for the 19th century American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) provides biographical information, a select bibliography, and contemporary photograph as well as links to related writers...
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: A Selection From the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the e-text of the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick (1591-1674) published in the 19th century with an introduction by the editor Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897).
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Other

The Thomas Love Peacock Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The T. L. Peacock Society serves to popularize the virtues of Peacock's novels and poetry as well as other writings. This index page links to full-text novels and poems by the 19th century Romantic-era writer.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: The Victorian Sonnet

For Students 9th - 10th
The Victorian sonnet is discussed and links are provided to full-text examples of sonnets by exemplary 19th century poets.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Later Poets, Poets of East & West

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page provides a description of the style and themes of American poetry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Examines the differences between poetry of the "effete" East and that of the untamed West.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Modern British Poetry: Biographical Sketches

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers brief biographies of many British poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These include Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. E. Housman, and many more.
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Other

Jean Ingelow's "Songs of Seven"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read Jean Ingelow's collection of poems entitled "Songs of Seven" that had a significant impact on England's 19th century culture.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Thomas Love Peacock: The Growth of the Novel

For Students 9th - 10th
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry explains Peacock's role in the rise of gothic fiction in the early 19th century Romantic era.
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Cengage Learning

Studying Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 9th - 10th
This Houghton Mifflin site prepared by Elizabeth Ammons is a study site about Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the 19th century African American author.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: George Moses Horton

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features George Moses Horton, an African American poet who wrote sentimental love poems and antislavery protests. He was one of the first professional black writers in America.
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Tour Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Literature: Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is part of the Web of InfoCostaRica. The page gives an excellent summary of Costa Rican poetry from the 1800s and 1900s. Poets and their works are described. The page also included links to other information about Costa Rica.
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Other

A La lettre.com: Arthur Rimbaud

For Students 9th - 10th
This French-language biography profiles the life and work of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania.com site a biography of the 19th century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Discusses his parents, early youth, education, literary ambitions, years of travel and study, Harvard tenure, love for...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: An Indian Boarding School Photo Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs of Native American children at several Indian schools from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Poetry of the West

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry, from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature, provides a description of the poetry written in the second half of the nineteenth century by poets of the American West, namely Bret Harte. It examines common...
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A&E Television

Biography: Arthur Rimbaud

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief biography of French symbolish poet Arthur Rimbaud.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oliver Wendell Holmes Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Ths Bibliomania site provides a biography of the 19th century American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). Discusses his ancestry, childhood, education, and career in medicine and literature. Includes analyses of his works and a...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: William Cullen Bryant

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania entry provides a biography of the 19th century American poet William Cullen Bryant and an analysis of his major poems. Discusses his role as a journalist and his translation of Greek classics. Includes suggestions for...
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Other

Shorter Poems by Thomas Love Peacock

For Students 9th - 10th
Index page for 15 full-text selected poems by the 19th century English poet, including "Beyond the Sea," "A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day," and "Castles in the Air."
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Emily Dickinson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Web English Teacher provides links to information and resources on the 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. Included are lesson plans, biographical information, critical analyses, and the texts of hundreds of Dickinson's poems....
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics &Victorians Power and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
From the radicalism of the Romantic poets to the violent suppression of protests, the 18th and 19th centuries were peppered with incidents of political upheaval. Read how power and politics feature centrally in some of the period's great...