Poetry

Engineers' Corner
www.youngpoets.ca is supported by the League of Canadian Poets and provides a variety of resources related to poetry, including an e-zine where students can publish their poetry, information about contests and readings, and a digital history of Canadian poetry.

Is the Pathetic Fallacy True?
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poetterm.html provides a glossary of poetic terms, including a helpful definition of pathetic fallacy.

Evening
www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch is the search page for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. "Cassatt" can be keyed in to find a Mary Cassatt home page that has links to a biography of the artist and a number of her paintings, drawings, and prints in the gallery's collection.

Birch Bark
www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/engml/FRIEDMAN/ondaatje.htm provides a variety of links to information about Michael Ondaatje and his works.

Vancouver-courtenay-calgary
www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/bowering_g.html provides a listing of works by and about George Bowering, as well as links to more information about the author and poet.

Prairie Flight
www.arts.uwo.ca/canpoetry/cpjrn/vol03/sullivan.htm contains an interview with Dorothy Livesay, in which she talks about her life and works.

Fern Hill
www.upei.ca/~english/202/modern/thomas.html features links to material by and on Dylan Thomas, including an on-line archive of his poetry, audio recordings of Thomas reading his poetry, biographical information, and photographs.

Amiri Baraka
www.portraits.gc.ca/index_e.html, the Web site of the Portrait Gallery of Canada, offers both photographic and non-photographic portraits of Canadians who have contributed to the development of the country.

The Committee to Upgrade Celestial Signs
www.mythweb.com/encyc/index.html, the Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology, provides background information on characters and places in Greek mythology.

The Heroes You Had as a Girl
www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women, the Celebration of Women Writers Web site, promotes awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing and provides comprehensive listings and links to female writers from various countries, including Canada.

foremother
www.heritage.nf.ca, the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web site, provides information and analysis on the history, geography, population, culture, and society of Newfoundland and Labrador.

To You Who Would Wage War Against Me
www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A164 provides brief biographical information on Akiwenzie-Damm and links to on-line works by and about the author.

I, Icarus
www.unb.ca/qwerte/nowlan, the Alden Nowlan Interviews site, contains photographs, RealAudio versions of interviews conducted with Nowlan, and readings by the author of some of his works.

Musée des Beaux Arts
http://audensociety.org, the Web site of the W.H. Auden Society, offers a variety of information about the poet, and includes links to recordings of some of his readings, criticism of his works, and other related Web sites.

People on the Bridge
http://wings.buffalo.edu/info-poland/sz/links.html. This "Szymborska on the Net" site provides links to a variety of sites about Wislawa Szymborska.

Progress
www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/lit/ native.html, maintained by the Vancouver Public Library, this site provides a booklist of recent Aboriginal literature in Canada.

Summer Night
www.poets.org, The Academy of American Poets Web site, is a comprehensive site for American poetry on the Internet. It includes news, poetry, biography, audio recordings of poets (including Langston Hughes) reading their work, and useful links to other sites.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
www.poets.org/LIT/poet/tselifst.htm features biographical information on T.S. Eliot, a selected bibliography of his works, and links to related sites.

Afternoons & Coffeespoons
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poetterm.html provides a glossary of poetic terms, including definitions for allusion and parody.

The River
www.Nobel.se/literature/articles/mjoberg/index.html. A critical article on The Nobel Foundation site that includes biographical information, an overview of Walcott's work, and photographs of and paintings by the writer.

grammar poem
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/eulang.html, the Language Futures Europe Web site, explores language policies, multilingualism, global language structures, and the dominance of English in Europe and provides links to relevant sites.

From Beowulf
www.wwnorton.com/nael/beowulf/welcome.htm. This site provides an introduction to Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Beowulf, including historical background to and critical comments on the text.

From The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
http://icg.Harvard.edu/~chaucer/ provides in-depth information on Chaucer as well as interlinear translations of the Canterbury Tales.

Sonnet 116
www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/116comm.htm provides commentary on "Sonnet 116" and links to commentary on all Shakespeare's sonnets.

A Poison Tree
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/blake_william.html provides references to Web sites where William Blake's artworks can be viewed on-line. The site also includes links to sites containing biography, criticism, and a digital archive of Blake's complete works.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/stcov.html provides a variety of resources about Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the Victorian Web, where he is identified as a "Pre-Victorian."

O Can You Leave Your Native Land?
www.nlc-bnc.ca/canvers/bios/emoodie.htm. This National Library of Canada Web site includes a biography, descriptions of selected works by Moodie, and links to related sites.

Dover Beach
http://65.107.211.206/arnold/arnoldov.html is the Matthew Arnold entry on the "Victorian Web" site, maintained by Brown University. This site provides information about "literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria." Topics include: biography, works, political history, politics, visual arts, religion, science, literary relations, genre and mode, themes, and imagery.

Because I Could Not Stop for Death-
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Poets/D/Dickinson,_ Emily lists many links that feature information on Emily Dickinson's life and works.