Busse Library provides these webpages for students and faculty seeking information on poetry and poets around the world. Resources reflect online ready-reference and poetry research websites. A listing of Busse Library materials is included.
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Medieval Poets -- Renaissance Poets -- Restoration Poets -- The Romantics -- The Victorians -- Modernists -- Contemporary Poets -- Busse Library Resources
Beowulf
- Beowulf (in Old English): Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Beowulf on Steorarume [Beowulf in Cyberspace] by Benjamin Slade
- Electronic Beowulf
- Resources for Studying Beowulf -- online texts and research
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400)
- The Chaucer MetaPage -- gateway to author
- Geoffrey Chaucer Website: Harvard University--features works, biography, and scholarly materials
- Geoffreychaucer.org: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources -- gateway to author
- The Luminarium: Geoffrey Chaucer
- The New Chaucer Society: Washington University, St. Louis
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
- Abraham Cowley: Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets"
- Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive: University of Virginia
John Donne (1572-1631)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- The Luminarium: Robert Herrick
- The Poetry Archives: Robert Herrick
- Selected Poetry of Robert Herrick: Representative Poetry Online
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
- Andrew Marvell -- biography from the American Academy of Poets
- The Luminarium: Andrew Marvell
- Selected Poetry of Andrew Marvell: Representative Poetry Online
- The Works of Marvell
John Milton (1608-1674)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- The Folger Shakespeare Library
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet -- gateway to author online
- The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- A Shakespeare Timeline
- The Works of the Bard -- web's first edition
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- The Edmund Spenser HomePage
- The Faerie Queen -- full-text online
- The Luminarium: Spenser Page
- The Poetry Archives: The Works of Edmund Spenser
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- The Luminarium: Sir Philip Sydney
- Selected Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney
- Sir Philip Sidney Online: Saint Louis University -- database and resources directory
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
- John Dryden: Catholic Encyclopedia -- biography
- John Dryden: Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets"
- The Poetry Archives: John Dryden
- Selected Poetry of John Dryden
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Alexander Pope -- biography
- Alexander Pope: An Overview: The Victorian Web -- gateway to author
- "Rape of the Lock" Homepage
- Selected Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
- Matthew Arnold: Academy of American Poets -- biography
- Matthew Arnold: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- Selected Poetry and Prose of Matthew Arnold
William Blake (1757-1827)
- Blake Digital Text Project
- The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, Newly Revised Edition, 1988: Digital Blake Text Project
- The William Blake Archive: Library of Congress
- William Blake Online: Tate Museum, London -- exhibit
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Browning Library -- biography
- Selected Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Armstrong Browning Library: Baylor University -- dedicated to Browning research
- The Browning Page -- a hypermedia project
- Robert Browning: Browning Library -- biography
- Selected Poetry of Robert Browning
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- Burns Country: The Official Robert Burns Site
- The Poetry Archives: Robert Burns
- Robert Burns, 1759-1796: A Bicentenary Exhibition from the G. Ross Roy Collection
- The Robert Burns Federation -- international club
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- The Byron Journal
- George Gordon, Lord Byron: Biography and Letters
- Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work
- Selected Poetry of George Gordon, Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Friends of Coleridge
- The Poetry Archives: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
John Keats (1795-1821)
- The British Library: John Keats Online Gallery
- John-Keats.com
- John Keats: A Comprehensive Study
- The Keats and Shelley House, Rome
- Poetical Works: John Keats: Bartleby.com
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
- Charles Lamb: A Memoir. By Barry Cornwall. Project Gutenberg
- Charles Lamb: Bartleby.com
- The Charles Lamb Bulletin
- The Charles Lamb Society
- Selected Poetry of Charles Lamb
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Moore
- Thomas Moore: Biography
- Thomas Moore: The Catholic Encyclopedia -- biography
- Thomas Moore -- chronology
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
- Selected Poetry and Prose of Thomas Love Peacock
- Thomas Love Peacock Page -- extensive research bibliography
- Thomas Love Peacock Society
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Selected Poetry of Sir Walter Scott
- "Sir Walter Scott" by Andrew Crumey -- biography with bibliography
- Sir Walter Scott-- biography
- Walter Scott Digital Archive: Edinburgh University Library
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Complete Poetical Works: Percy Bysshe Shelley: Bartleby.com
- The Keats-Shelley Association of America
- Percy Bysshe Shelley Resource Page: University of Maryland -- texts and bibliography
- Selected Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- Selected Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Tennyson Page
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- The Complete Poetical Works: William Wordsworth: Bartleby.com
- Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
- The Wordsworth Circle : New York University (NYU)
- The Wordsworth Page -- features hypertext biography
- The Wordsworth Trust
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
- The Bronte Birthplace
- The Bronte Sisters Web
- Emily Bronte: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- Selected Poetry of Emily Jane Bronte
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- Carroll Texts On-Line
- Lewis Carroll: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- The Lewis Carroll Homepage
- The Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA)
- Selected Poetry of Lewis Carroll
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Overview: Victorian Web
- Gerard Manley Hopkins Society and Hopkins Web
- Selected Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
- A.E. Housman : A Shropshire Lad: Bartleby.com -- full-text online
- The Housman Society
- Selected Poetry of A.E. Housman
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
- Christina Georgina Rossetti -- biography
- Christina Rossetti: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- Selected Poetry of Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Overview: The Victorian Web
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Biography
- The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Guide
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- Chronology of Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde: An Overview: Victorian Web
- Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials: NYU Libraries
- Selected Poetry of Oscar Wilde
- W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
- Poems by W.H. Auden
- W.H. Auden: Academy of American Poets-- biography
- W.H. Auden Society
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
- Candy is Dandy but Liquor is Quicker: Ogden Nash Online
- Ogden Nash -- biography at University of Texas, Austin
- A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Wilfrid Owen (1893-1918)
- Selected Poetry of Wilfrid Owen
- The Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
- Wilfrid Owen -- biography and poems
John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
- John Millington Synge -- gateway to author
- Selected Poetry of John Millington Synge
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Dylan Thomas: Academy of American Poets -- biography
- Dylan Thomas: The Biography Project
- Dylan Thomas Center, Swansea, Wales
William Butler (W.B.) Yeats (1865-1939)
- W.B. Yeats: 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature: Nobel e-Museum
- W.B. Yeats: Bartleby.com -- directory to online texts
- W.B. Yeats Society of New York
- Yeats Society, Sligo
Seamus Heaney (1939-)
- Seamus Heaney: 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature: Nobel e-Museum
- Seamus Heaney: Academy of American Poets: Poetry Exhibits
- Seamus Heaney -- biography and works
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998) -- biography of England's Poet Laureate, 1984-1998
- Ted Hughes: Academy of American Poets-- biography
- The Ted Hughes HomePage by Ann Skea -- gateway for poet
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
- About Larkin: The Journal of the Philip Larkin Society
- Philip Larkin -- chronology
- Philip Larkin: Academy of American Poets -- biography
- The Philip Larkin Society
Stephen Spender (1909-1996)
- Stephen Spender: Academy of American Poets -- biography
- Stephen Spender: Bold Type Magazine: Random House
- Stephen Spender Collection: Watkinson Library, Trinity College
- Stephen Spender: New York Review of Books -- reviews and essays
- Allsopp, Michael E. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): new essays / 1989. PR4803. H44 Z6443 1989
- Armstrong, Isobel. Nineteenth-century women poets: an Oxford anthology / 1996. PR1177. N56 1996, Ref.
- Carpenter, Humphrey. W.H. Auden: a biography / 1981. PR6001. U4 Z636 1981
- Chevalier, Tracy. Contemporary poets. 1991. PR603. C6 1991, Ref.
- Corns, Thomas N. The Cambridge companion to English poetry, Donne to Marvell / 1993. PR541. C36 1993
- Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Sir Philip Sidney: courtier poet / 1991. PR2343.D86 1991
- Fraser, G.S. Essays on the twentieth-century poets / 1977. PR603. F7 1977b
- Gill, Stephen Charles. William Wordsworth: a life / 1989. PR5881. G55 1989
- Hamilton, Ian. The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English / 1994. PR601. O9 1994, Ref.
- Levine, Richard A. The Victorian experience, the poets / c1982. PR593. V48
- Mack, Maynard. Alexander Pope : a life / 1985. PR3633.M27 1985
- Richmond, Velma Bourgeois. Geoffrey Chaucer / 1992. PR1905.R5 1992
- Ricks, Christopher B. Tennyson / [1972] PR5581. R54
- Ryals, Clyde de L. The life of Robert Browning : a critical biography / 1993. PR4321. R9 1993
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