Walt Whitman

Resources for Literary Research

LitOnline: Sophomore Literature Online
Clemson University English Department

Samuel Beckett

Poetry Resources

Poetry & Literature Center, Library of Congress, includes poetry news, poetry Webcasts, and a link to our Poet Laureate.
Academy of American Poets features poetry news and discussions, prizes, publications, and resources. Hear Wallace Stevens read "The Idea of Order at Key West" or Langston Hughes read "The Negro Dreams of Rivers."
Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, is "an Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000)."
The Poetry Archive is a British site that collects recordings of many poets reading their own works.
Electronic Poetry Center links to authors' home pages, old and new poetry, journals and magazines, and other online poetry sites. Tour their Poetics link, and view hypermedia poetics at e-poetry.
PennSound is a project at the University of Pennsylvania "committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives"—a good way to get to know some contemporary poets in their own voices.
Internet Poetry Archive at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill features selected contemporary poets and selected texts accompanied by audio.
Poems That Go offers "intersections between motion, sound, images, text, and code....how language is shaped in new media spaces, how interactivity can change the meaning...."
Magnetic Poetry Online
Poetry Writing and Reading Experiments from poet and professor Charles Bernstein.
Selected Poems about Writing, Reading, and Poetry.

Selected Literary Periods and Themes

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