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English, Communications & Media Studies: Poetry

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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.
American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.

Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
Search or browse through this collection of over a hundred of poets and authors and recordings of their works. Each author and recording entries come with a biography or background information.

English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.

The Poetry Archive
A free online collection (supported by The Arts Council England) of recordings of poets reading their work.

Twentieth-Century African American Poetry This link opens in a new window
62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.