G.R. Little Library: Poetry: Online Resources

Poetry Databases

Chadwyck Literature Collections This link opens in a new window
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An extensive English poetry collection, containing a wide spectrum of canonical poets as well as their lesser-known contemporaries to support sophisticated analysis, critical debate, scholarly dialogue, and linguistic research in the humanities.
The following collections are included: African American Poetry, American Poetry, English Poetry, The Faber Poetry Library, Twentieth-Century African American Poetry, Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and Twentieth-Century English Poetry.
The Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
The Faber Poetry Library contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active support of the publisher and the poets or their estates. Authors covered include Simon Armitage, Rupert Brooke, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Lavinia Greenlaw, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, David Jones, Louis MacNeice, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender and Edward Thomas.
American Poetry This link opens in a new window
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Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville.
African-American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
Twentieth-Century African American Poetry This link opens in a new window
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
English Poetry This link opens in a new window
English Poetry contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to 2000, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating poets from The Faber Poetry Library.

Homegrown eBooks: Poetry collection
Read poetry by North Carolina writers.

Poetry Websites

Poetry.com
A huge collection of poems from famous and amateur poets from around the world — collaboratively published by a community of authors and contributing editors.
All Poetry
The web's largest poetry writing group - from beginners to experts. Improve your poetry, create a fan base, and read the best poetry of our generation. Allpoetry is home base for poets.
Poetry Foundation
Publisher of the magazine 'Poetry'.
Commaful
Read and share fanfiction, stories, poetry, and comics in our unique picturebook format