I gather here Internet resources on the twentieth-century poetry in English, which may contain glimpses of truth in whatever form.

Last updated: 25 March 2005 (Ciaran Carson's birth year corrected. Thanks to Julia Cook.)
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AE (George William Russell) (1867-1935)

• A. E.
  Project Bartleby e-text of 2 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.

• Conrad Aiken Studies Journal
  Notes on biography and Aiken's works, e-text of 6 poems, papers on many aspects of Aiken by Dr. Ian Kluge.
• Conrad Aiken (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 7 poems.

• Richard Aldington
  Project Bartleby e-text of 3 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.

Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- )

• Jimmy Santiago Baca The Official Home Page
  Biography, bibliography, e-text of 4 poems, excerpts, audio selections, 5 interviews, information on the 16th annual World Championship Poetry Bout where Baca won.

• Literary Kicks
  Info on the Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure.
• An Interview with Poet Allen Ginsberg
  By Gloria G. Brame. Originally published in ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum Summer, 1996.
• Michael McClure (1932- ) (EPC Author Home Page) (buffalo)
  E-text of "February Morning," a poem McClure wrote in memoriam for Larry Eigner (with McClure's introduction). Essay "Self-Experience of the Other."

• Hilaire Belloc
  Brief notes. Project Bartleby e-text of "The South Country," as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.

• Prose Poems by Michael Benedikt
  E-text of his 5 prose poems. He has another page of 7 brief prose poems. His web pages include biography and related links.

• Charles Bernstein (EPC Author Home Page) (buffalo)
  Bibliography, biography, poetics seminars syllabi. E-text of "Beyond Emaciation." Essay "Warning Poetry Area: Publics Under Construction" and other texts.

• Laurence Binyon
  Project Bartleby e-text of 2 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920. The above link is for "A Song"; the other poem is "The House That Was".

• Bishop Web Site (vassar)
  Biography, bibliography. Info on literary collections of Bishop's papers, The Elizabeth Bishop Society, The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. Selected Papers from the Bishop Symposium at Vassar College, Sept., 1994.

• Louise Bogan (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 5 poems.

• Robert Bridges (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 10+ poems.

• Rupert Brooke (columbia)
  Brief notes. Project Bartleby e-text of 3 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, 1920, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, who comments "The shadow of John Donne lies over his pages."
• Rupert Brooke on Skyros
  Biography, bibliography, info on Brooke's grave on Skyros (in the Northern Aegean) and how to get there, e-text of 7 poems, and more.
• Rupert Brooke (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 85 poems, including the the complete book of The Collected Poems.

• The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits - Gwendolyn Brooks
  Biographical and bibliographical notes, links, the poet's reading of 'We Real Cool.'
• Voices From the Gaps: Gwendolyn Brooks (umn)
  Biography, bibliography, e-text of 'Corners on the Curving Sky.' Part of Voices From the Gaps, an instructional WWW site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.
• PAL: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) (csustan)
  Bibliography. Part of PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide by Professor Paul P. Reuben, California State University Stanislaus.

• buk's page
  Biography, Bukowski's art, info on Bukowski newsletter sure, online-ordering of Bukowski books, links.

• Basil Bunting Poetry Centre (dur.ac.uk)
  Bibliography, quotes. Info on the Centre publications, The Basil Bunting Poetry Archive (which includes printed material, manuscripts and papers, recordings and videos, photographs).

Ciaran Carson (1948- )

• Ciaran Carson (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 3 poems.

• Joseph Ceravolo: Poet (montclair)
  Biography, bibliography, sample e-text from 7 books. Created by Joseph's son, Jim Ceravolo; biography written by Joseph's wife, Rosemary Ceravolo.

• G. K. Chesterton
  Brief notes. Project Bartleby e-text of 3 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.

• Austin Clarke (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 3 poems.

• Lucille Clifton (The Language of Life)
  Bibliography and e-text of 4 poems.

• Padraic Colum
  Project Bartleby e-text of 2 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.

• The Hart Crane WebBridge (unr)
  E-texts, bibliography, links.

• Robert Creeley (EPC Author Home Page) (buffalo)
  Bibliography, e-text of 2 poems, conversation with Alan Riach; Books Books Books (.au), first conceived as a radio program but never broadcast, where Henry Sussman interviews Creeley and Bernstein about 20th-century poetics and the culture of writing.
• Robert Creeley (Keele American Studies Portrait Gallery) (keele.ac.uk)
  E-text of 4 poems, links.

• E. E. Cummings (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 17 poems.

Frank Davey (1940- )

• Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan: Poetry and the Popular Song
  Davey's essay on Cohen and Dylan (December 1969).

• W. H. Davies (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 40+ poems.

• Walter De la Mare (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 30+ poems.

• H. D. (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 9 poems.

• About Rita Dove (virginia)
  Dove's reading of "Lady Freedom among Us" and biography.
• "Lady Freedom among Us" (virginia)
  Modern English Collection e-text.

• Paul Laurence Dunbar (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 13 poems.

• SlopBucket.com
  E-text of the (nearly) complete lyrics and other writings of Dylan. (formerly: The Funny Little World of Jim Roemer)

Larry Eigner (1927-96)

• Larry Eigner (EPC Author Home Page) (buffalo)
  Obituary: thoughts on Eigner by Hank Lazer, Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein, Douglas Messerli, Aldon L. Nielsen, Jerry Rothenberg, Jack Foley, Loss Pequeño Glazier; this obituary includes excerpts of Eigner's poems, biographical and other information. "Four for Larry Eigner," 4 poems for Eigner by Hank Lazer. Eigner's Breathing (post by Ron Silliman). "What Do You Know," a read on Eigner by Kit Robinson. "February Morning," a poem Michael McClure wrote in memoriam for Eigner on the day before the funeral (with McClure's introduction).

Padraic Fallon (1905-74)

• Padraic Fallon (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 2 poems.

• Carolyn Forché (gmu)
  Forché's own page. Biography, bibliography, filmography, discography, an e-text, links.

• Ford Madox Hueffer (columbia)
  Project Bartleby e-text of 2 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.

Alice Fulton (1952- )

• Alice Fulton (cornell)
  Biographical data, e-text of 4 poems, criticism and an article about Fulton's poetry and teaching.

David Gascoyne (1916- )

• David Gascoyne Home Page
  Biography, chronology, bibliography, e-text of 3 poems.

• Dana Gioia
  Thermopylae Ezine e-text of 4 poems.
• An Interview with Poet and Critic Dana Gioia
  By Gloria G. Brame. Originally published in ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum Spring, 1995.

• Robert Graves Trust, Archive and Society
  Info on the St. John's College Graves Trust, Robert Graves Society and the St. John's College Robert Graves database project.
• Fairies and Fusiliers
  Project Bartleby e-text.
• Robert Graves (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 3 poems.
• IMS: Robert Graves, HarperAudio
  Graves reads from The White Goddess and 7 poems.

• Samuel Greenberg: American Poet
  Biography, Greenberg's prose "Between Historical Life," bibliography, e-text of 26 poems, facsimiles of 2 poems (handwritten manuscript versions), info on New York city with 3 maps of the areas where he lived, info on Hart Crane who was greatly influenced by Greenberg's poems. According to Mr. Michael L. Smith, who maintains the site, "Crane's poem "Emblems of Conduct" is actually a mosaic of slightly-altered lines taken from six of Greenberg's poems."

• R. S. Gwynn
  Thermopylae Ezine e-text of 3 poems.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• A Small Collection of Poetry (cam.ac.uk)
  E-text of 10 poems transcribed by Gareth McCaughan.
• Wessex Poems and Other Verses
  Project Bartleby e-text.
• Thomas Hardy (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 10+ poems.

• The Poetry of Bret Harte
  Biography and e-text of 9 poems.

• Introduction to Robert Hass
  Readings in Contemporary Poetry at Dia Center for the Arts, November 10, 1995, by Brighde Mullins.

• Seamus Heaney
  Bibliography, biography and e-text.
• Poems
  Collection and links of e-text of 10+ poems w/ Heaney's readings (.au).

• John Hewitt (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 2 poems.

• A. E. Housman
  E-text of an extensive selection from A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, and "Additional Poems."
• A Shropshire Lad
  Complete e-text. Transcribed by John Mark Ockerbloom and Martin Hardcastle.
• A Shropshire Lad
  Project Bartleby e-text.
• A. E. Housman
  Project Bartleby e-text of 5 poems, as appeared in Modern British Poetry, ed. by Louis Untermeyer, 1920.
• A Shropshire Lad (virginia)
  Modern English Collection e-text.
• A. E. Housman (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 19 poems from A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, and "Additional Poems."

• My Emily Dickinson (upenn)
  Howe's essay on Dickinson (excerpts).
• Register of the Susan Howe Papers 1942-1990 (ucsd)
  From the UCSD University Library Mandeville Department of Special Collections. Biographical notes.

• Andrew Hudgins
  E-text of "The Cestello Annunciation" (with the picture of Botticelli's "Cestello Annunciation"), "Praying Drunk," etc. At The Alsop Review.

• Langston Hughes (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 1 poem.

• The Richard Hugo Page
  Biography, chronology, bibliography, e-text of 3 poems.

James Joyce (1882-1941) ( -> See separate page)

Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67)

• Patrick Kavanagh (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 5 poems.

• Robert Kelly (EPC Author Home Page) (buffalo)
  E-text of "The Invaders," "Sermon on Language," "Mont Blanc."

• Rudyard Kipling (virginia)
  Modern English Collection e-text of "McAndrew's Hymn," "The Pilgrim's Way," "The Sons of Martha," "Hymn of Breaking Strain."
• Rudyard Kipling (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 11 poems.

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

• Poems
  Project Bartleby e-text. Comprises Amores, New Poems.
• D. H. Lawrence (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 3 poems.

• "The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why." (kent)
  A working copy of the poem (1970) from Kent State University's Special Collections and Archives.

• Songs of the Pueblo Indians (virginia)
  Modern English Collection e-text. Comprises "Women's Harvest Song," "Basket Dance," "Women's Song of the Corn," "Prayer for a Profusion of Sunflowers," "Prayer for Lightning," "Flute-Priest Song for Rain," as appeared in The Dial, September 1920, pp. 247-251.

Medbh McGuckian (1950- )

• Medbh McGuckian (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 2 poems.

• Archibald MacLeish (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 3 poems.

• Charles Martin
  Thermopylae Ezine e-text of 2 poems and 3 translations from Catullus.

• John Masefield (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 8 poems.

• Spoon River Anthology
  Project Bartleby e-text.

• Charlotte Mew
  John Faragher's essay on Mew's poetic style, e-text of 8 poems.

• Alice Meynell (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 4 poems.

• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of Renascence and Other Poems. Second April is also available.
• Renascence and Other Poems
  Project Bartleby e-text.
• Selected Poems (umd)
  E-text of about 20 poems from Renascence and Other Poems.
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 30+ poems.

• The Poetry of Joaquin Miller
  Biography, bibliography, comments on Miller's poetry and e-text of 6 poems.

• John Montague (The Irish Poetry Page) (uni-koeln.de)
  E-text of 3 poems.

• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of Poems.

Charles Olson (1910-70)

• Charles Olson (EPC Author Home Page) (buffalo)
  Info on Olson Archives at University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs. Peter Quartermain's review of Charles Olson. Selected Poems, ed. Robert Creeley, 1993. Nick Lawrence's essay "Olson's Republic."

• Wilfred Owen (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 9 poems.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

• Dorothy Parker
  Critical notes, e-text of Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Death and Taxes.
• Dorothy Parker
  E-text of 20+ poems.

• History of My Heart (conncoll)
  CAPA (Contemporary American Poetry Archive) e-text of History of My Heart (1984) was formerly located here. It has been scheduled for republication by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, and has therefore been removed from the archive. Please look for it in your local bookstore, or ask the store to order it.

• Sylvia Plath
  Biography, bibliography and links to e-text and other resources.

Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of A Handful of Lavender. A Wayside Lute and Wild Cherry are also available.

• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of Children of the Night: A Book of Poems. Three Taverns and Town down the River are also available.
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (Poets' Corner)
  E-text of 90+ poems.
• Collected Poems
  Project Bartleby e-text.

Benjamin Saltman (1927- )

• Poetry by Benjamin Saltman (csun)
  E-text of Blue with Blue, Deck, Mysterious Faces Talking Straight Ahead. Biographical note kindly provided by Mark E. Cull: "Benjamin Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and completed his graduate education at Claremont Graduate School. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965. He has received several awards and fellowships including two NEA awards, one in 1969, and a Creative Writing Fellowship in 1987-88. He won a John Williams Andrews Award for a long narrative poem from Poet Lore, a Chester H. Jones Foundation Award, and an Anna Rosenberg Award for a poem about the Jewish experience. His work has appeared in numerous magazines over the years, among them The Hudson Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Ironwood and Kayak. For twenty-five years he taught verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge, where he is Emeritus Professor of English. He has three daughters and lives in Kensington, California, with his wife Helen." "

• Carl Sandburg (cmu)
  E-text of Chicago Poems and "Grass".
• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of Cornhuskers.
• Cornhuskers
  Project Bartleby e-text, which includes Chicago Poems and Smoke and Steel as well.
• Four Poems (virginia)
  Modern English Collection e-text. Comprises "Hats," "Pennsylvania," "Broken-Face Gargoyles," "Jazz Fantasia," as appeared in The Dial, March 1920, pp. 292-294.

• Poems
  Project Bartleby e-text. Comprises The Old Huntsman, Counter-Attack, Picture-Show and other poems.
• Counter-Attack: Biography of Siegfried Sassoon by Michele Fry
  Biography, bibliography. Includes info and links relevant to World War I literature.

• IMS: Anne Sexton, HarperAudio
  Sexton reads 20 poems.

• Gertrude Stein
  Bibliography, e-text of Tender Buttons, links.
• Tender Buttons
  Project Bartleby e-text.

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

• Arthur Symons
  E-text of 4 poems.

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

• "Narcissus as Narcissus" (upenn)
  Tate's essay on his own verse, as appeared in Reason in Madness, 1938.

• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of Flame and Shadow. Rivers to the Sea and Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems are also available.

• IMS: Dylan Thomas, HarperAudio
  Thomas reads from his 13 poems.

• Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
  The Richmond Review Electronic Library e-text of 10+ poems. Thomas's entire œuvre will eventually be collected here.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

• HTI American Verse Texts (umich)
  HTML version of Custer and Other Poems. Poems of Power is also available.

World War I Poets

• Lost Poets of the Great War (emory)
  E-text, biography and other info on 6 poets (Rupert Brooke, John McRae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger and Edward Thomas).
• Rupert Brooke ( -> See separate entry at B)
• Wilfred Owen ( -> See separate entry at O)
• Isaac Rosenberg ( -> See separate entry at R)
• Alan Seeger (1888-1916) (emory)
  Biographical notes and an e-text of "Rendezvous."
• Edward Thomas ( -> See separate entry at T)
• John Allan Wyeth (1845-1922)
  Biography written by Bradley Omanson. E-text of 9 sonnets written on the Western Front in 1918 (from This Man's Army, A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets). Wyeth was also a veteran of the American Civil War. Part of the World War I - Trenches on the Web site.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ( -> See separate page)

Quid prodest hoc ad aeternitatem
Professor Eiichi Hishikawa
Faculty of Letters, Kobe University