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an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors or the java navigation page. All of the sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work

a site devoted to alliterative verse in Old English, Middle English, modern English. Forgotten Ground Regained contains translations, original texts, contemporary poetry written in alliterative styles, resources, commentaries, and links to related materi

lyrikline.org präsentiert zeitgenössische Poesie multimedial als Originaltext, in Übersetzungen und vom Autor oder der Autorin in Originalsprache gesprochen

'Canadian Poetry Online' is an online guide provided by the University of Toronto Library. The site is divided into contemporary and 19th-century Canadian poets.

The University of Western Ontario's Canadian Poetry Press website provides full-text access to back issues of the academic journal Canadian poetry (1977-2006), as well as online scholarly editions of the works of English Canadian poets and early poems relating to Canadian subjects with an emphasis on the long poem.

The BBC Poetry Out Loud Web page, part of the BBC Arts website, provides a small and varied collection of recordings of poets reading their own works.

The website of the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL) allows serious students, regular readers, and casual browsers access to contemporary poetry written in Scotland - in Scots, Gaelic, or English -- historic Scottish verse and poetry from most parts of the world. Contained here is an online catalogue (INSPIRE) of SPL resources, which includes books, periodicals, audio and video recordings and news cuttings, and the Scottish Poetry Index that allows users to search via author, title and subject for poetry material in twenty Scottish magazines from 1952

A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published. Though most of the texts are poems of satire and invective, others take the form of anti-libels, responding to libellers with orthodox panegyric. These poems throw new light on literary and political culture Early Stuart Libels: an edition of poetry from manuscript sources.

the complete online text of Steven Marx's book, first published by Peter Lang (1985), and provided here by the author himself. Marx's book examines the theme of generational conflict in the works of the 16th-century court poet, Edmund Spenser, and the 18th/19th-century poet and artist, William Blake. The book touches upon the origins of pastoral debate or singing contests in: classical pastoral; in troubadour verse types such as the sirventes (sirventois); and elsewhere, and explores the tropes of pastoral singing-contests used by these two writers.