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Poets.org: Maya Angelou
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Maya Angelou including information on her life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Angelou is also provided.
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Poets.org: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Lord Alfred Tennyson including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Tennyson is also provided.
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Poets.org: Edgar Allan Poe
Resource provides a brief biographical overview of Edgar Allan Poe including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Poe is also provided.
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Poets.org: d.h. Lawrence
Resource provides a brief biographical overview of D.H. Lawrence including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Lawrence is also provided.
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Poets.org: Adrienne Rich
Resource provides a brief biographical overview of Adrienne Rich including information on her life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Rich is also provided.
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Poets.org: Edwin Arlington Robinson
A brief biographical overview of Edwin Arlington Robinson including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Robinson is also provided.
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Poets.org: Thomas Hardy
Provides a brief biographical overview of Thomas Hardy including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Hardy is also provided.
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Poets.org: Wallace Stevens
Resource offers a short biography of Stevens, a selected bibliography of his works, e-texts of eight poems, information about Stevens' role in Modernism, and links to related sites.
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Poets.org: Homer
Read about what scholars have speculated about the life of Homer, known as the author of both the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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Poets.org: Walking Tour: Langston Hughes's Harlem of 1926
Walk in the footsteps of the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes in this online guided tour. Contains specific directions to navigate through Harlem to places he lived and visited regularly. With quotes from various works mentioning...
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Poets.org: Walt Whitman
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Walt Whitman including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Whitman is also provided.
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Poets.org: William Shakespeare
This brief biographical overview of William Shakespeare includes information on his life and links to selected poems and sonnets. Includes a bibliography of selected works.
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Poets.org: National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. Find all the resources you need to celebrate poetry in your classroom, including a new activity for each day, a poster for the current year plus archives of previous posters, and teacher resources that...
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Poets.org: t.s. Eliot
Resource provides a brief biography of Eliot with a bibliography of his works. Of particular interest is an audio clip of Eliot reading "La Figlia Che Piange." The site also provides a basic explanation of Modernism and hyperlinks to...
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Poets.org: "America" by Herman Melville
This site contains the text of the poem "America" by Herman Melville (1819-1891 CE).
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Poets.org: "Gettysburg" by Herman Melville
This site contains the full text of the poem "Gettysburg" by Herman Melville. (1819-1891 CE)
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Poets.org: "The Problem" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Full text of the poem "The Problem" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1882).
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Poets.org: The Heresy of the Didactic
Poets.org presents the full text to Edgar Allan Poe's essay, "The Heresy of the Didactic." In addition to the full length essay, links are provided for related prose.
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Poets.org: "The Sphinx" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Full text of the poem "The Sphinx" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
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Poets.org: "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Full text of the poem "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
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Poets.org: Randall Jarrell
Read Jarrell's biography and a selected bibliography at this site.
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Poets.org: Eavan Boland
This American Academy of Poets site provides a biographical sketch for the Irish poet Eavan Boland with a link to the full text of "The Pomegranate." External links to other resources.
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Poets.org: Billy Collins
An biography of Billy Collins is provided here. The site also provides information about 450 other American poets and their works.
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Poets.org: W. B. Yeats
A biography of Irish poet William Butler Yeats with links to six of his poems.